January Events

We will be closed from January 28th until February 8th for renovations.

 February  Events

Triple Threat Tour

Author Visit 

Agatha Awardwinner Hank Phillippi Ryan,

Sara Ann Freed Memorial Award winner Karen E. Olson

Barry and Anthony Award winner Julie Hyzy

Saturday, February 27th

5PM

   March Events

Storytimes on Thursdays

10:30 AM

Toddlers/Preschoolers

3:30 PM  ACES

Kindergarten-1st Grade

April Events

Writers' and Readers' Festival

  April 24th  10-3 PM

Storytimes on Thursdays

10:30 AM

Toddlers/Preschoolers

3:30 PM  ACES

Kindergarten-1st Grade

Let’s give ‘em something to talk about”…

(Bonnie Rait, 1991 ). 

That’s precisely the point behind a youth storytelling project underway at Millis Road Elementary and Ragsdale High schools. Hosted by the Jamestown Library and the Jamestown Historic Society, a class of fourth graders at Millis Road Elementary and Ragsdale High’s first year drama class, are learning the performing art of storytelling.  Their trainers are professional storytellers providing 10-hours of instruction on how to become storytellers.  A public performance at the end of the training will showcase the students’ talents to the community. Top performers will be invited to submit their videoed performances to the National Youth Storytelling competition in Pigeon Ford, Tennessee in February 2010, and to attend NC Storyfest Inc’s annual storytelling festival in High Point and Greensboro on May 21 and 22nd.    The instruction is free and made possible through a grant awarded NCSI by the  United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro. 

The Jamestown project is spotlighting stories about historic Jamestown gleaned through interviews with Old Jamestown School alumni, descendants of the freed black Florence community and  descendants of the original Quaker families that established Jamestown.  Through these oral history dialogues, students will then create a dramatic persona of the person they interviewed and “tell” their memories and anecdotes to their audience.   

We invite you to be in that audience supporting these Jamestown elementary children and Ragsdale High teens and their teachers who are so enthusiastically embracing this challenging project.  The showcase at Millis Road is scheduled on December 9 from one to two o’clock and at the high school on an as yet to be determined day during the first week of December. We’ll keep you updated on the times and place.

Four other sites in Guilford County are participating in this same project: Win-Win Resolutions, the City Arts/Greensboro Parks & Recreation Folk Teen Center, the Vance H. Chavis Branch Library and Guilford County Schools (peer mentoring program at Penn Griffin Middle School) . 

“First, catch your story.  The really exciting thing is that they are all around—out there—just waiting to be caught…this “common possession of humankind…”  Edie Garvey.

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