Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture

A collaboration between Ohio State and the Bexley Public Library for a series of intergenerational workshops to support children and their families research and write their own heritage stories.

Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture is a new children’s book series that nests personal stories within broader family and cultural histories, empowering children who have grown up away from their countries of family origin to connect or reconnect with their cultural heritage. Read more here This pilot program led by Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman (Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Leticia Wiggins (OSU Ethnic Studies Librarian), Hallie Fried (OSU Alumna and Educator) and youth librarians at Bexley Public Library is modeled on the children’s book On the Wings of the Condor featured in WOSU’s Columbus Neighborhoods segment “Genealogy for New Generations.”

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Meet the Authors

National Night Out - Meet the Bigger Than Me Authors!

Tue, Aug 05, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Commonwealth Park

Visit the Bexley Public Library table at the Bexley Police Department's National Night Out to meet the Bigger Than Me authors and learn more about the program.

Bexley Minority Parent Alliance Block Party - Meet the Bigger Than Me Authors!

Sun, Aug 24, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

S. Cassingham Rd. & Astor Ave.

Visit the Bexley Public Library table at the BMPA Block Party to meet the Bigger Than Me authors and learn more about the program.

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A collaboration between Ohio State and the Bexley Public Library for a series of intergenerational workshops to support children and their families research and write their own heritage stories.

Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture is a new children’s book series that nests personal stories within broader family and cultural histories, empowering children who have grown up away from their countries of family origin to connect or reconnect with their cultural heritage. Read more here This pilot program led by Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman (Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Leticia Wiggins (OSU Ethnic Studies Librarian), Hallie Fried (OSU Alumna and Educator) and youth librarians at Bexley Public Library is modeled on the children’s book On the Wings of the Condor featured in WOSU’s Columbus Neighborhoods segment “Genealogy for New Generations.”

Are you interested in joining Bigger Than Me? Fill out this application!

Please join us for the culmination of a series of intergenerational heritage workshops, "Bigger Than Me: My Culture, My Story," and to celebrate our young authors and their work on their first self-published books on March 23rd at 3:00 PM!

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Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture

Meet the Authors

Talk Around Town

Sponsors

OSU Libraries

College of Arts and Sciences Office of Engagement

OAA Office of Outreach and Engagement

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Humanities Institute

Center for Ethnic Studies

OSU’s Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes “Archival Imaginations”

Bexley Public Library