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Mother Goose on the Loose is an award winning nursery rhyme program for children from birth through age 3. Children and caregivers enjoy nursery rhymes, music and movement during this 30 minute interactive program. An ideal early learning experience!
Ages: Birth – 3
Sign Up: No
Join us at the Tazewell Library on Thursday, April 25 at 7pm for an Open Mic Poetry Reading. Read your own poem (yours or your favorite), sing a song, or tell a story. You do not need to read anything to join us for the night. This is part of our “Week of Stories” at the Tazewell Library.
All Ages are welcome to play board and card games. Bring your Yu-Gi-Oh! cards to play against your friends and trade your cards. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Join us on Saturday, April 27 from 9am – 1pm for a Local Author Event at the Tazewell Library. Meet and purchase books from local authors at this event.
We will have a total of eleven authors attending the event: Robert Merritt, Tom Fugate, Cyrus Alderwood, Kari Kilgore, Maddie White, Werner Lind, Jason A. Adams, Kirk Abner, J.S. Crews, Mary Alice Barksdale, and Donna Fogelsong.
Mother Goose on the Loose is an award winning nursery rhyme program for children from birth through age 3. Children and caregivers enjoy nursery rhymes, music and movement during this 30 minute interactive program. An ideal early learning experience!
Ages: Birth – 3
Sign Up: No
Join us at the Tazewell Library on Tuesday, April 30 at 6pm to take party in a Memoir Writing Workshop presented by Crystal Kieloch, Instructor of English at Bluefield College. Get tips on how to start writing your life’s story today.
Maya Angelou has said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Our beautiful, messy, complicated stories matters, so tell them! We each have personal stories with universal meanings -learn how to start, and how to develop what you want to say even if you don’t know what it is yet. In this workshop, participants will receive the tools to help develop their own personal stories. Learn story structure, and writing techniques that will move you toward a solid memoir. No previous writing experience required.
This is part of our “Week of Stories” at the Tazewell Library.
TCPL is excited to partner with Girls Who Code, a national non-profit working to close the gender gap in technology. Girls Who Code Clubs are FREE programs for 3rd-5th and 6th-12th grade girls to join the sisterhood of supportive peers and role models, and use computer science to change the world.
TCPL is excited to partner with Girls Who Code, a national non-profit working to close the gender gap in technology. Girls Who Code Clubs are FREE programs for 3rd-5th and 6th-12th grade girls to join the sisterhood of supportive peers and role models, and use computer science to change the world.
Join us at the Tazewell Library on Friday, May 3 at 1pm for a storytelling event for adults. This is part of our “Week of Stories” at the Tazewell Library.
Rema Keen
Rema Keen is a writer and performance/teaching artist who graduated from Virginia Intermont College with degrees in English Literature and Theater.
She has performed in a number of regional and national theaters including The Barter Theatre in historic Abingdon, Virginia, where she trained for four years in the esteemed acting and fellowship program. Keen has also performed with Ballet for Young Audiences in New York City, Actors Guild of Lexington, KY and with Pleiades Theater Company based in Louisville, KY.
Keen received most of her training in storytelling theater and oral history collection while touring with Appalshop’s Roadside Theater, a national touring ensemble based in Whitesburg, KY. She toured with Roadside Theater nationally for 4 years as a writer and performer, organizing and conducting Arts in Education residencies and storytelling workshops with adults and children.
Rema has co-written a successful and wonderfully well loved play, TEDDY’S PIECE, about the life of her Grandmother, Teddy, who lived in Raven, VA. in the Red Ash Coal Camp. Rema is from Buchanan County and currently lives in Abingdon, Va.
Deb Linkous
With few books in the house and zero trips to the library, in her formative years Deb Linkous collected stories by listening and observing. That early skill is deep-rooted! While Deb has never been caught stealing a story, she has adopted (and sometimes gently adapted) ones that she found abandoned and begging for rescue.
Deb has told stories at several Roanoke libraries, all branches of the Tazewell County Public Library, Crab Orchard Museum, Mercer Mall’s center court, and wherever else she found a welcoming audience.
Her first printed book, Job Untangled, a Biblical commentary for ordinary people, will be available this summer through Amazon, as an e-book as well as hard copy.
All Ages are welcome to play board and card games. Bring your Yu-Gi-Oh! cards to play against your friends and trade your cards. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.