CULTURA! Storyteller Series Returns to Library

Tompkins County Public Library has announced the return of the popular CULTURA! Storyteller Series.

A program of the Library, the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County, The Latin American and Latino Studies programs at Cornell University and Senoritas Latinas Unidas, Inc., CULTURA! is directed by Carolina Osorio Gill and features guest storytellers who offer historic, folkloric or personal stories about a particular Latin American country.

CULTURA! program dates and featured countries are:

• Saturday, March 12 - Dominican Republic
• Saturday, March 26 - Argentina 
• Saturday, April 2 - Mexico
• Saturday, April 9 - Brazil
• Saturday, April 23 - Puerto Rico 

All storytelling sessions are free and open to the public and include a corresponding craft. CULTURA! programs will be held from 1:30 to 3:00 PM in the Library’s Thaler/Howell Programming Room.

The storytelling series is only one component of the CULTURA! program, which is designed to promote Latino and Latin American culture through easily-accessible, free and low-cost, arts-based educational experiences.

For more information about CULTURA!, contact Carolina Osorio Gil at carolina.osorio@gmail.com or (607) 227-2334.

This program is funded in part by the Faculty Fellows-In-Service Program affiliated with the Cornell Public Service Center.