Paints to Puddings at Parkes Library, Australia
Something that happens to me on a regular basis with this project is that I hear about program ideas and immediately think, oh my goodness, I have to replicate that or do something similar at my library/in my art-making practice/etc. When our friend Matt Finch (you remember him, from the Zombies in the Library storytelling event) put...
Zombies at the Tullamore (Australia) Public Library
On November 9th, 2012, the rural Australian town of Tullamore, New South Wales experienced a library event like no other. During a storytelling visit by British writer and educator Dr. Matt Finch, students across the age range from 8 to 18 visited Tullamore’s public library for what they thought would be a writing workshop. Arriving...
Featuring: Playbods, an interactive art program for families
The Library as Incubator Project is pleased to welcome Bryony Pritchard and Kim Glassby to the site today. Together Bryony and Kim form Playbods, a program that engages participants in exploring different art forms, from dance and movement to storytelling and visual arts. We love their multidisciplinary approach to their work and to their emphasis...
Page to Stage: on the telling of stories
Brandon Monokian is a theatre artist who works in the New York City and New Jersey area. For the Page to Stage guest blog series, Brandon will document the process of bringing three works from the page to the stage – all in the Princeton Public Library. Page to Stage : an intro to “Freak”...
[ALOUD] summer update
[ALOUD] brings together today’s brightest cultural, scientific, and political luminaries with the curious minds of Los Angeles. We first featured the [ALOUD] lecture and event series in March 2012, and I am so pleased to share some summer updates from this very engaging and unique program series. This summer at the Los Angeles Public Library, storytelling...

