(3rd Annual Cultural Holiday Celebration, ft. Black Santa
at
Manitou Art Center
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography)
Lil’ Miss Story Hour was founded and directed by Vanessa Little in 2019. We are a grass roots, Colorado Springs, Colorado-based donation-run educational organization, providing literacy themed programming and entertainment for children. We host community story times and events that present a diverse range of children's literature, written and illustrated by authors and illustrators from di by verse communities and support DEI ideology. The underrepresentation of diverse characters in children’s picture books and children’s literature is significant, and we want to change the narrative of the kind of books selected for children’s events. Thus, our main mission is to ensure that the children in this country know it is possible to access books with characters who look like them and events that elevate individuals who look like them.
(Paint pour activity: Christopher Beasley
5th Annual Black History Month StoryTime, vendor market, & Poetry 719's BVM (Black Voices Matter Open Mic
at
Deerfield Hills Community Center
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography)
Lil’ Miss Story Hour strives to foster imagination through literature and the Arts by ensuring that children see themselves represented in the books that they read. These efforts cannot take effect without the support of all of the members in our community. For this FUNraiser we aim to make Lil' Miss Story Hour a little more self sufficient by purchasing a silent disco kit and a sound system. Our goal this year will be $5,000 and we would greatly appreciate your sponsorship!
(Lil' Miss Story Hour Own Voices Queer BIPOC StoryTime
3rd Annual Queer Themed FUNraiser
at
Sunday Barber CO., Colorado Springs, CO
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography)
Your generous donations will go to helping us cover artists stipends, venue space costs, and books and art materials. Your sponsorship will also ensure the ability for Lil' Miss Story Hour to continue bringing rich, intergenerational literacy and arts programming to the children of Colorado Springs and their families.
(StoryTime "Lights of Winter" by Heather Conrad
3rd Annual Cultural Holiday Celebration, ft. Black Santa
at
Manitou Art Center
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography)
(Lil' Miss Story Hour
3rd Annual Queer Themed FUNraiser
at
Sunday Barber CO., Colorado Springs, CO
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography)
(Opening songs at StoryTime
at
Deerfield Hills Commmunity Center,
5th Annual Black History Month story time, vendor market, and Poetry 719 BVM (Black Voices Matter)
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography)
(Two years and under sparkly treasures hunt
3rd Annual Queer Themed FUNraiser
at
Sunday Barber CO., Colorado Springs, CO
photo credit: Authentic Photography)
(StoryTime with Miss Nicole, "Turtle Island" by Kevin Sherry.
Workshop: The geography of the Indigenous legend of Turtle Island.
3rd Annual Cultural Holiday Celebration, ft. Black Santa
at
Manitou Art Center
photo credit: Authentic Cultural Photography)
Thank you so much for your time, consideration, and support of Lil' Miss Story Hour, literacy, and the Arts!