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Dr. Jerry Goodwin, The Oklahoma Eagle
Deborah J. Hunter will be the special guest performer for the Jeanne B. Goodwin Storytelling Festival on July 11. Photo, Provided
Tulsa City County Library and Rudisill North Regional Library are sponsoring the Jeanne B. Goodwin Storytelling Festival on July 11, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. The featured speaker will be Deborah J. Hunter.
Deborah J. Hunter, a native Tulsan, is a poet, spoken word artist, essayist, actor, teaching artist, workshop facilitator, and social justice activist. She was selected as a 2020 Greenwood Art Project grant recipient. She was presented with a Woman of the Year Pinnacle Award in 2018. Her most recent essay, “Salvation,” appears in the anthology “Voices from the Heartland, Volume II,” which has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 Oklahoma Book Award.
The Jeanne B. Goodwin Storytelling Festival is a tribute to Goodwin, who was a lifelong educator and literacy champion who understood how storytelling and the visual experience work to build a vivid imagination. Goodwin was married to the late E. L. Goodwin Sr., the founding publisher of The Oklahoma Eagle.
For a visual tour of the Goodwin Storytime Room on the YouTube channel, visit www.youtube.com/TulsaLibrary.
For more information, contact https://www.tulsalibrary.org/locations/rudisill.
Tulsa City County Library
The Tulsa City-County Library operates a network of 24 public branches, two nonpublic branches, and a traveling bookmobile. With more than 5,400 daily visitors and 7.4 million items circulated each year, TCCL has been designated with the prestigious five-star rating by the Library Journal, putting TCCL in the top five library systems in the United States. The mission of the Tulsa City-County Library is to inspire, promote learning, and create connections that strengthen our communities.
