Tag: library
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5 Things To Do At The Tewksbury Library On Thursday, July 12
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe e… Read Full Article
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Lyon County commissioners approve extra library funding
Quist said attendance was up at Tracy Public Library programs in 2017. She said the Tracy library hopes to strengthen connections with the local Hmong community, especially with plans for the Southwest Hmong Community Center to be built in Tracy. Read Full Article
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Soulful Productions Showcase
This cause is close to Lor’s heart, her family is from this region and she helped build the library. Lor and many of the youth performing are Hmong. The event fee is $5 for students 18 and under (who are still in school) and $10 for adults … Read Full Article
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This week at the library: Celebrating Earth Day
Hmong Dance Workshop: Join members from the award-winning dance group TTNH in this interactive dance class and learn about the Hmong culture’s artistry in motion. 4-5 p.m. Monday, Woodward Park Regional Library. Details: 559-600-3135. Discovering … Read Full Article
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La Crosse Public Library unveils banners to kick off National Library Week
The banners read “Libraries are for Everyone” in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Ho-Chunk. Kelly Krieg-Sigman, Director of the La Crosse Public Library, says the banner project started as an idea nearly five years ago. That is when she saw similar banners at … Read Full Article
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La Crosse Public Library celebrates diversity with new banners
All thoughts of silence in the library were forgotten Monday as the La Crosse Public Library unfurled four banners, revealing the words “Libraries are for Everyone” in English, Ho-Chunk, Hmong and Spanish on Monday during the kickoff ceremony for … Read Full Article
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Library celebrates Cambodian culture to kick off National Library Week
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Tags: Asian, culture, immigrants, library, organization, people, refugees, Southeast Asia, Vietnamese, weekThe Center for Southeast Asians is a Providence-based organization that serves Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian and Vietnamese people who arrived to Rhode Island as refugees. Today, the organization serves around 20,000 Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees … Read Full Article
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Ramsey County Commissioner District 3 Questionnaire: Trista MatasCastillo
The truck stopped in places where people from the neighborhood actually went, gave an incentive for them to participate, and provided information in English, Hmong, and Spanish. Feedback was even collected from children at the library and at playgrounds. Read Full Article
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Help create a St. Paul poem at your local library
The two have worked on various things together, including a number of plays. In 2016, Lee-Yang worked with Hmong elders on a play called “Poj Laib Laus,” or “Old Gangster Ladies,” a humorous take on the the relationship between older and younger … Read Full Article
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County library, museum work to preserve Hmong culture
NEWTON — Siobhan Loendorf’s eyes lit up when she pulled up the image of a Hmong travel document on the computer screen in front of her. “It looks like a little luggage tag, but this is an actual copy of (Xiong Tong’s) passport when he came from … Read Full Article
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Historical association invites residents to unpack cultural heritage
Another project HACC is currently working on includes the National Endowment for the Humanities Hmong Common Heritage Grant. This grant gives HACC, Catawba County Library System and Digital Heritage North Carolina the opportunity to collect a digital … Read Full Article
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Fresno Library hosts Oath Ceremony for new citizens
The Big Read is focused on The Latehomecomer, which tells the story of a Hmong family’s journey from Laos to the U.S., a story very familiar to Immigration Services Officer Lynne Feldman. “And I laugh at times because years ago I got to be a federal worker. Read Full Article
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Memoir writing highlights final week of Door County Reads
On Thursday, author Kao Kalia Yang spoke to a crowded ballroom at Stone Harbor Resort in Sturgeon Bay about her own memoir and this year’s Door County Reads book The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Door County Library’s Tina Kakuske says memoirs … Read Full Article
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Five Things To Do Today, Thursday, Feb. 8 | Hmong festival, author talk & hiring fair
Explore the Hmong culture through hands-on music, dance and crafts. Community members will share their experiences on how they arrived in Fresno. Betty Rodriguez Regional Library, 3040 N. Cedar Ave., Fresno, 559-600-9245, fresnolibrary.org/bigread.html … Read Full Article
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Things to do in Door County, Feb. 17 to March 18
Hosted by Peer Breastfeeding Counselor, Julie Neuchter. Children’s play area provided. Refreshments. “BEING HMONG MEANS BEING FREE” DOCUMENTARY, 7 to 8 p.m. Feb. 7, Baileys Harbor Library, 2392 County F. Film introduced by Mike Orlock. FREE WRITING … Read Full Article