Celebrate the Winter Solstice. Author and artist Ida Aronson will engage children and their families in a variety of storytelling mediums, encouraging people to tell their own stories.

Open to children 6-12 years of age and their families. Registration is encouraged to help plan for supplies.

Drawing on their own artistic history of writing for graphic novels, visual art, theatre-making, and storytelling, Ida will share how storytelling plays into their own life and beyond.

This program will be followed by a companion winter solstice event for the 1 year anniversary of earthwork architectural structure on the Lafitte Greenway: Nanih Bvlbancha! Nanih Bvlbancha is an Indigenous earthwork supported by Prospect’s Artists of Public Memory Commission, community organizing and outreach, the New Orleans Recreation Department Commission, and Friends of Lafitte Greenway. The design for the project was assembled by the following Indigenous scholars, multimedia artists and activists: Dr. Tammy Greer, Ida Aronson, Monique Verdin, Jenna Mae, and Ozone 504.

Learn more about the project at NanihBvlbancha.net or on Instagram @NanihBvlbancha. Both Winter Solstice Making Stories and 1 year anniversary of earthwork architectural structure on the Lafitte Greenway: Nanih Bvlbancha are free and open to the public.

Winter Solstice Making Stories is sponsored by The Friends of the New Orleans Public Library.