Author Archives: Flora

Open Letter: Support your library, See a puppet show.

By Flora | Published: December 3, 2009
“Let us read and let us dance, two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.” -Voltaire On Open Letter to Puppet & Library Loving Friends and Supporters, You are invited to a weekend of pay-what-you-will Puppet events to raise awareness about the importance of every single Pittsburgh library. We will also be actively [...]
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This Weekend’s Master Schedule

By Flora | Published: December 3, 2009
ALL AGES EVENTS ——-SUNDAY, December 6th: FAMILY PUPPET DAY 12pm-3pm, The Union Project, 801 North Negley Ave. Puppet Performances 12:15pm Ange Tu’ulaupua Ulu: a traidtional Samoan folktale come to life. 1:00pm Things That Stick Bunny Jump: Giant, jumping bunny puppets. 1:30pm Flora Shepherd Together: join a participatory library puppet pageant Art-making - Make your own rod, string, hand and shadow puppet and [...]
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Carrick Kids

By Flora | Published: December 3, 2009
“The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.” -Julie Andrews The Carrick library was very good to Puppets for Pages. After a slight, unplanned detour, we arrived to find a small conference room all set [...]
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Link Round-up

By Flora | Published: December 3, 2009
If you aren’t already following the Save the Libraries facebook page and Facebook group, I hugely suggest you do so. They are doing an awesome job of keeping people updated on what’s going on! I recommend checking their links for updates on library news in the past few days. Things have been pretty hectic [...]
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City Paper Short List

By Flora | Published: December 3, 2009
Thank you, Lucy Leitner and Bill Driscoll at City Paper. Read about us and the Typewriter Girls in the Short List here
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Lawrenceville Library Love

By Flora | Published: November 24, 2009
As East End residents, Katrina and I spend a lot of time in Lawrenceville.  So, we were especially excited to spend some quality puppet time at a library branch in our own neck of the woods. This Puppets for Pages visit was met by the youngest group of library patrons yet!  Thanks to the help of [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving!

By Flora | Published: November 24, 2009
Katrina and I are all over the place this week. So, Happy Thanksgiving to all from Brooklyn, Virginia, Washington DC, New Orleans and Pittsburgh. Can’t wait for Carrick this weekend!
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City Council approves $600,000 of funding!

By Flora | Published: November 24, 2009
“I don’t want to be like ‘Wow, we won, it’s over,’ because it doesn’t seem like it’s over yet,” said Tess McShane, creator of the “Save the Pittsburgh Libraries” Facebook group. “It doesn’t help anybody if two years from now we need to go back and this whole thing is rehashed again.” This has been all [...]
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More great library coverage from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

By Flora | Published: November 20, 2009
Ravenstahl announces that he might have to cut library funding and will discuss it at City Council meeting today: here Library board and local officals to meet on Monday and adding public hearing to final meeting on Dec 14th: here.
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Shields Proposal

By Flora | Published: November 17, 2009
Please don’t forget to contact the City Council here to tell them to vote for the $600,000 grant for the Carnegie libraries. They vote TOMORROW!
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