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The Teen Video Challenge is an annual video contest and is open to all teens (librarian and teacher support is encouraged). The challenge is for teens to create a public services announcement-type video that shows their unique interpretation of the 2021 CSLP slogan “Tails and Tales”. Videos are to be no longer than 60 seconds and should promote libraries and reading.

Videos will be accepted June 1 through August 6, 2021.

Five winners will be chosen and will receive: a $200 cash prize, and $50 worth of summer reading materials for their library!

#summer reading #libraries #cslp teen video challenge

Register here!

#portersqbooks #cambridge #lgbtq+

Meet experts in the field of equity in healthcare in this Zoom Webinar for high school students.

Designed by teens for teens, this event brings together scientists and high-school students to explore new research and discuss what inspires and influences people to pursue careers in STEM. At our next Zoom webinar, meet experts in the field of equity in healthcare.

Please join us and our two guest speakers from Northeastern University: Margarita DiVall, Clinical Pharmacist and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, and Tiana Yom, Public Evaluation Lab Program Director, who will share their unique perspectives and experience.

This is a free event for interested high school students only. March 5, 2021 5:30-7:30 pm EST Pre-registration required

#teen science cafe #mit #stem #healthcare

Black Girl Arts Incubator 2021 Application is Up!

Black Girl Arts Incubator(BGAI) is a paid 18-week arts education & performance program for 5 Black, African, and Caribbean girls between the ages of 13-19.

By exposing Black girls in our community to music, dance, poetry and other Arts created by Black women, they will be exposed to Black excellence in the Arts, an area that is largely untaught to this age group by a white colonial centered education curriculum.

This program is supported in part by a grant from Cambridge Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. Requirements: -Between 13 & 19 years old -Identify as Black, Caribbean, or African(BAC) girl -must live in MA -have a phone/laptop/tablet -be available for zoom meetings on Monday evenings

#black girl arts incubator 2021 #arts education

Another great author event coming from our friends Porter Square Books!

#portersqbooks #meredith goldstein #new books #yalit

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was it overly ambitious of me to try and paint snowbaz onto denim? yes. did i do it anyway? absolutely yes.

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Oh sweet fandoms, brightening my day...

#rainbow rowell #craftiness

Recruitment has started for new crews for Summer 2021!

The safety and wellbeing of our youth, staff, and the communities in which we work are our top priorities, especially during this global pandemic. The Food Project is monitoring COVID-19 daily and adhering to the guidelines put forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). Our program experiences are subject to change based upon those guidelines and the evolving nature and impact of COVID-19. After working on our farms each morning, Seed Crew spends most afternoons in workshops learning about sustainable agriculture, food access, social justice, and more. Seed Crew members see the impact of their work when they prepare and serve the food they grow at hunger relief organizations, and by staffing The Food Project’s SNAP-accessible farmers’ markets. Youth in Seed Crew earn a stipend of $300 each week, paid bi-weekly. For more information about Seed Crew, please contact us at [email protected].

#summer #summer jobs #seed crew #the food project #gardens #food justice

(Virtual) Around the World in 4 Days!

#cambridgema #cambridge youth centers #vacation week

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Sharing Black Stories

Celebrate Black History Month with these incredible books by Black authors!

MUTED BY TAMI CHARLES

MUTED by Tami Charles is a ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition, music, and innocence lost. When Denver sings her way into stardom, the painful sacrifices and lies she has to tell are all worth it…until they’re not. Denver begins to realize that she’s trapped in this world, struggling to hold on to her own voice. As the dream turns into a nightmare, she must make a choice: lose her big break, or get broken. Start reading!

THE LIFE I’M IN BY SHARON G. FLAKE

THE LIFE I’M IN by Sharon G. Flake is the powerful and long-anticipated companion to The Skin I’m In, Sharon G. Flake’s bestselling modern classic. It presents the unflinching story of Char, a young woman trapped in the underworld of human trafficking. Flake offers readers another timely and radical story of a girl on the brink and how her choices will lead her to either fall, or fly. Start reading!

YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN BY LEAH JOHNSON

YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN by Leah Johnson is a joyful book about a queer Black girl who runs for Prom Queen to win a college scholarship…but then finds herself falling in love with one of the other girls in the competition! Start reading!

TRULY MADLY ROYALLY BY DEBBIE RIGAUD

TRULY MADLY ROYALLY by Debbie Rigaud is a swoon-worthy royal romance about a Black girl working to better her community while at a prestigious summer program, and falling for a boy…who might actually be a real-life prince?! Start reading!

TAKE THE MIC, EDITED BY BETHANY C. MORROW

TAKE THE MIC, edited by Bethany C. Morrow, is an anthology of powerful stories of fictional resistance. It includes stories from Keah Brown, Jason Reynolds, L.D. Lewis, and more, with cover and interior illustrations by Richie Pope. Start reading!

SPIN BY LAMAR GILES

SPIN by Lamar Giles is a page-turning thriller about rising DJ Paris “ParSec” Secord, who is found dead on her turntables. Her former best friend and current groupie must put aside their differences to find the truth behind her murder before it’s too late. Start reading!

SHURI BY NIC STONE

SHURI by Nic Stone is a Black Panther novel featuring everyone’s favorite genius, princess, and superhero: Shuri! It’s up to Shuri to travel from Wakanda in order to discover what is killing the Heart-Shaped Herb in order to save it, and her people, from destruction. Start reading!

SORRY NOT SORRY BY JAIME REED

SORRY NOT SORRY by Jaime Reed! Alyssa and Janelle: friends, then frenemies, then fated to save each other’s lives. Will their bitter past get in the way of their future? Start reading!

OVERWATCH: THE HERO OF NUMBANI BY NICKY DRAYDEN

OVERWATCH: THE HERO OF NUMBANI by Nicky Drayden! When the technologically advanced African city of Numbani is threatened, robot inventor Efi Oladele must build her greatest creation yet – a guardian robot to protect the city and save its citizens, before it’s too late! Start reading!

UNTWINE BY EDWIDGE DANTICAT

UNTWINE by Edwidge Danticat is a haunting and mesmerizing story about sisterhood, family, love, and loss. When Giselle wakes up in the hospital unable to speak or move, she must revisit her past in order to have the strength to start the path of recovery. Start reading!