Native Story Hour with Karen Kitchen.
The library’s NW Authors Series will be participating in The 3rd Annual Gathering, a celebration of Native American Heritage Month. Join us for a weekend of storytelling, art, music, poetry, presentations and more, November 14th-16th. Schedule and more info: TBA. All programs are being offered free of charge (donations are encouraged).
On Saturday, November 15th at 1:00pm we will host Indigenous Storyteller Karen Kitchen (Osage Nation). Kitchen will present Native Story Hour, a family event designed to promote Native authors, illustrators, and publishers, engage children and their families through story and song, and tell traditional stories. Kitchen will also perform songs to inspire and educate participants about Indigenous history, contemporary issues, and American Indian music.
Come sing, listen, learn and celebrate Native cultures. This is a family program – all are welcome. Children will also be able to experiment with and make their own indigenous instruments.
Karen Kitchen is a citizen of the Osage Nation. She is a Prek-12 educator with three decades of service in Title VI Indian Education programs in Portland Public Schools. She has also worked as a researcher and advisor in two National Science Foundation grants through Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and more recently, in the Indigenous First Steps Program at Portland State University.
This event is produced by Cannon Beach community nonprofits, including: The Tolovana Arts Colony, Cannon Beach History Center & Museum, The Cannon Beach Arts Association, The Coaster Theatre Playhouse, the Cannon Beach Library and the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce.
We gratefully acknowledge the Clatsop and Nehalem/Tillamook Peoples on whose ancestral homelands we gather.
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