2nd Annual Drag FUNraiser and story time
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Community Congregational Church of Manitou Springs
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.
4th Annual AANHPI Story time and Vendor Market
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Luxe Daiquiri Lounge
photo credit: Danny Mullaney)
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 and have a couple items on our needs list, a silent disco kit and a 10x10 outdoor/indoor vendor tent with four walls. We need to raise some extra funds in order to make this happen, so this Winter, our goal will be $7,500 and we would greatly appreciate your sponsorship!
(Alkebulan Arts Institute of Mississippi: Djembe Drummers, Shawn Akeem Lawrence and Eddie Dorman
2nd Annual Back to School Culture Fest
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Knob Hill Urban Arts District
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.
[Paint on canvas with Kai Gaynor (owner of Momoxoart)
4th Annual Juneteenth, Pride, and Music Month Story Time
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3rd Annual Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography]
2nd Annual Back to School Culture Fest
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Knob Hill Urban Arts District
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography)
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The Hall at PPLD (Pikes Peak Library District)
4th Annual Black History Month story time, vendor market, and Poetry 719 BVM (Black Voices Matter)
photo credit: Authentic Culture Photography]
2nd Annual Drag FUNraiser and story time
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Community Congregational Church of Manitou Springs
photo credit: Authentic Photography)
[Soluna Mind and Body (Sound healing workshop)4th Annual AANHPI Vendor market and story time
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Luxe Daiquiri Lounge
photo credit: Danny Mullaney]
Thank you so much for your time, consideration, and support of Lil' Miss Story Hour, literacy, and the Arts!