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Speaker Series
Presidential Foreign Language Trivia Game
Join us for an exciting and interactive Presidential Trivia event on March 22nd, 2025, from
2 to 4 PM EST. This special event will be hosted on Zoom, and we’ll be using Kahoot! for a fun trivia game to test your knowledge!
- Discover interesting facts about U.S. Presidents and their foreign language skills!
- Participate in a fun trivia game on Kahoot! with a chance to win prizes.
- Gain insights from Gregory J. Nedved, a renowned linguist, historian, and author of Presidential Foreign Language Trivia
Speaker Series
Social Justice Themes in African Poetry: Writing Your Own Poetry
Joy “Sistah Joy” Alford, Inaugural Poet Laureate of Prince George’s County, Maryland will lead this workshop along with museum staff on April 5, from 11 am to 1 pm at the South Bowie Branch Library.
Join us for an exciting event that blends powerful social justice poetry from Africa with a fun, hands-on poetry workshop. Hear poems from several countries in various languages, from Ancient Egypt to today’s diaspora in Maryland. Learn how to express your own voice for social justice by writing poems using words, shapes, and sounds.
Click here to register on the library’s site.
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Social Justice Poetry, World’s Children’s Stories, A Virtual Cruise to Puerto Rico, and our newest exhibit: What Makes People Laugh.
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See videos of this live program and read the poetry in 10 languages of Africa.
Songs and poems from many languages address five themes: Authoritarianism, Colonialism, Economics, Gender, and Identity & Ethnicity.
Social Justice Poetry From Africa & the DIaspora