ESL Speaks: Sharing Teen Immigrant Stories

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
George W. Hawkes Downtown Library
Young Adult Area

Event Details

In a five-week writing series, teens will work with The Writer's Garret to craft and write stories and poems for a chapbook. This program is open to all teens but is geared towards English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Participants do not need to attend all the workshops to participate.


Dates:
Thursday, June 13
Thursday, June 20
Thursday, June 27
Thursday, July 11
Thursday, July 18

A celebration of the participants' work will be on Saturday, August 3, from 4:30PM to 5:30PM in the reBrary room. Join us for a reading of the teens' stories and poems! 

Arlington Public Library's ESL Speaks: Sharing Teen Immigrant Stories is supported wholly by a grant from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.  YALSA builds the capacity of libraries to serve teens.  Learn more about YALSA at www.ala.org/yalsa.  The Dollar General Literacy Foundation provides assistance to organizations in implementing and expanding literacy programs for youth.  Learn more about Dollar General at www.dollargeneral.com
Event Type(s): New Immigrant
Age Group(s): Teen (13-17)
Presenter: The Writer's Garret
Loretta
Loretta.Zhang@arlingtontx.gov

Register For Event

Success!

Oops!

You must log in to register for this event.
Oops! - There was a problem in authenticating your card:
Login

Cancelled