Watch the teaser trailer for Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time. A Wrinkle In Time opens in US theatres March 9, 2018. The film, which is an epic adventure based on Madeleine L’Engle’s timeless classic which takes audiences across dimensions of time and space, examining the nature of darkness versus light and ultimately, the triumph of […]
Learning poetry can be a bore. In this humorous talk and performance Henrik Hoeg shares with us what poetry is like outside the curriculum: interesting, modern, and relatable. Henrik Hoeg is the emcee and director of Peel Street Poetry, an English language poetry collective in Hong Kong centered around their weekly open mic nights. His […]
Pravljičarka Liljana Klemenčič nas navduši s pravljico o zaljubljenem žabcu: »Zgodbe, branje in knjige so edino, kar nas loči od živali.« Je vodja Mladinskega oddelka knjižnice Ivana Potrča na Ptuju in pravljičarka, predvsem pa ljubiteljica knjig in pripovedovanja. Tedensko izvaja pravljice z jogo, zelo znan je tudi njen projekt bralne značke za odrasle. Za svoje […]
Dr. Cha-Hsuan Liu is a university lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University. Currently she teaches Youth Study, Multicultural society and Health in society. Her work focuses not only on Diversity sensitivity and Health but also on other interdisciplinary studies, such as Education and Innovation Sciences. She has several articles, book chapters […]
In his new memoir, “Called to Rise,” ABC News contributor David Brown writes about his eventual rise to becoming Dallas’ Chief of Police.
Research has found that 70 percent of all people feel like impostors at one time or another, especially people of color. This syndrome is mostly prevalent in communities of color — starting with our children. If they don’t see themselves being represented how can they feel they belong? A few years ago, upon understanding my […]
I often get asked what would you choose baking or design? But for me it’s never a choice and always a collaboration of the two. I am constantly thinking creatively and have a habit of seeing everything as food! My creative process always starts or ends with an idea, design or concept that I often […]
How do you change the world when you can’t get out of bed? How do you empower others when your mental illness makes you hate yourself? Discussing her own experiences of LIVING WITH mental illness and of working to empower young women, award-winning performance poet Megan Beech explores the many challenges that face someone with […]
John shares the staggering magnitude of our global illiteracy problem and the potential an international focus on increasing literacy has for creating greater social and economic equality for the world’s next generation. As the Texas Library Association’s 2014 Librarian of the Year, a former member of the Texas Bluebonnet Award Selection Committee, current Texas State […]
Cuando de pronto estamos envueltos en una serie de prejuicios de la realidad hay que voltear a ver como actuamos y si realmente es lo que deseamos ser. Librepensador y artista visual, autor del libro Mentalmorfosis, una guía para mentes inquietas basada en el pensamiento disruptivo; ha dado más de 100 presentaciones y conferencias en […]
