Kids Story & Activity Time (TAMA Sunday)
June 4th at 12:30 pm

How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter
with Laleña Garcia and Caryn Davidson

TAMA Open Streets Sundays Kick Off June 4th and we are kicking it off with a great program for young readers (and not-yet-readers)!

Laleña Garcia and Caryn Davidson will be reading their inspiring How We Can Live; Principles of Black Lives Matter and sharing activities from the accompanying What We Believe activity book.

Please join us in the streets as we set up outside The Word Is Change Sunday June 4th at 12:30pm. Activity sheets and art supplies will be provided.

Author Laleña Garcia has taught in New York City early childhood education programs for more than twenty years. How We Can Live grew out of her work with Black Lives Matter in Schools, a teachers’ organization striving for racial equity in education, and she has presented at local and national conferences on teaching the principles of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to children. A graduate of Yale University
and the Bank Street College of Education, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Please visit her website at rootedkids.org and follow her on Instagram at @blm_in_kindergarten.

Caryn Davidson studied Anthropology and Visual Art at Brown University and received her MA in arts education from NYU. Since the start of her career in education in 2004, she founded and developed the arts programs at three public schools in New York City and also led initiatives to promote culturally relevant pedagogy and socially just practices within those school communities. She now teaches art at the high school level in Brooklyn, NY, where she also lives. You can find her on the web at caryndavidson.com and on Instagram at @caryn_arts.