Summer Kick Off

Summer is in full swing at the Carnegie Center. We got things started with our Summer Kick-Off Family Fun and Learning Night last week. Here are a few photos:

Homemade cookies made by staff

Hotdogs and BBQ

Going fishing

Sidewalk Chalk

Games in Gratz Park

Campfire storytelling

Board games

Friendship bracelet making

Fortune fishing

S'mores!

Balloon Game by the Girl Scouts

Local baby animals

Making edible campfires

We hope to see you soon!

~warmly~
Katherine

Ready, Set, Study!

The Carnegie Center just completed one of their favorite projects---the Ready, Set, Study program, conducted this year with Northern Elementary school. Students were selected by their Family Resource Coordinator to participate in the program. Grant funding allowed us to provide parenting workshops, workshops on study skills, school supplies for next year, and a brand new desk for their homes. Students decorated their desks last weekend with volunteers to personalize their new, improved study space! Here are a few photos from the project:











~warmly~
Katherine

Calling All Writers

Another exciting writing opportunity at the Carnegie Center!

Here are the details:

WRITERS’ RETREAT WITH KENTUCKY WRITERS:
AN INSPIRING ENVIRONMENT WHERE WRITERS CAN GROW

Thursday, June 25: 6:00-8:00 pm
Friday, June 26: 9:00 am-4:30 pm
Saturday, June 27: 9:00 am-1:00 pm

Join established Kentucky writers for four workshop sessions and plenty of writing time. We’ll break for lunch, but lunch will not be provided. $50 Saturday-only; $150 for 3-day event.

Workshop sessions:

Thursday 6:00-8:00 pm – Welcome event/WRITER SESSION (with Karen McElmurray)

Friday 9:00-11:30 am –WRITER SESSION (with Crystal Wilkinson)

Friday 11:30 am-12:30 pm – lunch on your own

Friday 12:30-2:00 pm– writing practice/free write

Friday 2:00-4:30 pm – WRITER SESSION (with new Kentucky Poet Laureate Gurney Norman)

Saturday 9:00-11:30 am – WRITER SESSION (with Nickole Brown)

Saturday 11:30 am-?? Participant Reading

Space is limited; register now: (859) 254-4175

We hope to see you then!
~warmly~
Katherine

Calling All Teachers

Kentucky Literature Academy

Thursday, July 9^th and Friday, July 10^th, 2009

9am-4pm

Middle and High School Teachers from around the state are invited to participate in the Carnegie Center’s third annual Kentucky Literature Academy. Participate in four workshops led by established Kentucky authors, while familiarizing yourself with Kentucky’s rich body of literature. Learn ways to integrate the works of Kentucky authors into your classroom and receive free texts and materials for classroom use. This is a must-attend event for all teachers!

Space is limited to the first 15 registrants. Teachers receive a per day stipend of $100 or six professional development hours (subject to district approval). To register, please contact the Carnegie Center for a registration form (859.254.4175 or ccll1@carnegieliteracy.org).

~warmly~

Katherine

Gratz Park

Our lovely view of the park. Particularly lush-looking after this week's rain. Thanks Fatimah for your lovely photo!

We hope to see you next week for the start of summer classes!
~warmly~
Katherine

Carnegie Center in the News

Check out an article on the Carnegie Center in the Summer 2009 Keeneland magazine!

~warmly~
Katherine

Literary Reception Honoring James Baker Hall and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

The Carnegie Center hosted a literary reception for Kentucky authors, editors and publishers a few weeks ago. The event was to honor James Baker Hall and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, as well as to recognize outgoing and incoming poets laureate, Jane Gentry Vance and Gurney Norman. Special thanks to all of the restaurants and businesses whose donations and sponsorships made this event possible, and to all our guests, we were thrilled to welcome you to our building. Here are a few photographs from the event:
Hope that your week starts out well. Remember that summer classes start next week!

Thank you to photographer Andrew Owens for your great pictures!
~warmly~
Katherine

Lunchroom Poem

The Carnegie Center staff placed a whiteboard in our kitchenette, where staff make their lunches. The board contained the following prompt: "Write about a children's book or books that impacted you." Staffers each wrote a few lines. Here was the result:

Eggs and ham, green as the tree leaves
Under which Harriett spies
And wild things roar.
While the Patriot lads saved old Falmouth
I was digging holes in the dirt
Eating a bowl full of mush under the moon
While we had a no good, very bad day
As Amy lay dying.

We have so much fun at work! Can you guess the children's books to which the lines allude?
Happy Guessing!
~warmly~
Katherine

Summer

With Memorial Day weekend over, summer is officially here! Remember to sign up for summer class.


Happy "summertime" from the Carnegie Center staff!
~warmly~
Katherine

National Children's Book Week

The Carnegie Center celebrated National Children's Book Week with a Family Fun and Learning Night program last night. Seventy kids and family members enjoyed making their own books, paper, puppets and more! Also, in honor of National Children's Book Week, many of the staff dressed up as Alice in Wonderland characters. Here are a few pictures of our fun evening:











~warmly~
Katherine

Summer Class Schedule

Hi, Carnegie Center friends!
Our summer class schedule is now available on the web. Sign up for our exciting classes here!

For those on the mailing list, your class schedule should be arriving anytime. Be checking your mailbox!

~warmly~
Katherine

Twitter

You can now follow the goings-on of the Carnegie Center on Twitter.

Check it out!

~warmly~
Katherine

Check it Out

We’re delighted to report that today’s (May 7th) edition of the Writer’s Almanac features “On a Perfect Day,” a poem by our own outgoing Kentucky Poet Laureate, Jane Gentry Vance. The poem will be read by Garrison Keillor during this evening’s 7:00 pm broadcast on WUKY or your local NPR affiliate. Here’s the poem in all its glory:

"On a Perfect Day"

~warmly~
Katherine