Join us at the historic Andrew Freedman Home for a Storytime event with published authors, curated specially for Boogie Down kids! We’re passionate about getting young readers excited about book culture. Stop by to enjoy a live reading, experience the beautiful Andrew Freedman Home, and snag a new, signed book for your home library!

At our January 6th Storytime event, the Bronx Poet Laureate Kay Bell will be reading children’s poetry and hosting an interactive poetry workshop for any attendees interested. Learn more about her below:

Kay Bell is an Educator, Storyteller, and music enthusiast. Her poetry aims to weave the language of activism with the voice of the marginalized to confront and interrogate literary spaces of oppression. For her, writing works as a birthing floor for healing, invention, and reimagination— where the poetic voice is responsible for both blessing and bruising the inquiring reader. Through writings such as “Work Sonnet,” & “Watching You Sleep” Kay continues to give rise to poetics that challenge societal norms, promote empathy, and inspire change. Currently, she works as an Academic Advisor and Adjunct Professor at the City College of New York and can be found nurturing her plants and her two sons, in the heart of the South Bronx.

Time: 3:00-4:00 pm EST

Free!

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