¡CULTURA! Cuenta Cuentos (Storyteller) Series

The next installment of the ¡CULTURA! Cuenta Cuentos (Storyteller) Series will occur this Saturday 4/2.  See below for more details on this popular and exciting series!

The Tompkins County Public Library, the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County, the Latin American Studies Program and Latino Studies Program at Cornell University, and *Sigma Lambda Upsilon*/ Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc. are proud to announce the CULTURA! Storyteller Series. The program features a guest Storyteller representing a different Latin American country each time, who will share a historic, folkloric, or personal tale from that country, as well as an artistic activity that will relate to the story.

This week, join *Perla Parra* in a bilingual storytelling of El Viento y el Sol (The Wind and the Sun).  This Mexican tale is an adaptation of an Aesop's fable, with a *moraleja* (moral to the story) at the end. In
summary, the wind bets the sun that "he" is more powerful.  In the end, we learn that force is not the best way of attaining your desired goals. Being nice and doing what you do best is more important. The story will be
followed up with a fun art activity!


¡CULTURA! Storyteller Series sessions will take place Saturdays at the Tompkins County Public Library and are free and open to the public. Families and children of all ages are welcome to attend and take part
in this wonderful experience.The program will take place in the Thaler/Howell Children’s Programming Room
and will feature the following countries:

Saturday April 2nd- Mexico
Saturday April 9th- Brazil
Saturday April 23rd- Puerto Rico

All sessions take place from 1:30 pm to 3 pm.

Sessions are 1.5 hours each and consist of storytelling during the
first
half, and a related art activity during the second half.
The Storytelling series is only an aspect of a family of programs called ¡CULTURA!, designed to take part year-round. ¡CULTURA! strives to foster and share Latino and Latin American culture with the Ithaca community
through easily-accessible, free or low-cost, arts-based educational experiences (series) offered throughout the year. This series explores different Latin American cultures through storytelling, though subsequent series will
focus on music and dance, art, food and more!

For more information contact Carolina Osorio Gil, Director of
¡CULTURA!, at
carolina.osorio.gil@gmail.com <carolina.osorio@gmail.com> or
(607)227-2334.
The program is funded in part by the Faculty Fellows-In-Service
Program
affiliated with the Cornell Public Service Center