Photo credit: Harshi Jhaveri
On Sunday, February 18, Asian Library welcomed approximately 800 participants as part of Kids Take Over UBC, which is hosted by UBC Campus + Community Planning. The event brought together campus partners to host family-friendly activities in their venues and across the campus. Asian Library partnered with Nitobe Gardens for koi and garden-themed display activities, and offered games and storytimes for family members of all ages. Student librarians Nobu Kawaguchi, Fin Bartels and Grace Park supported the programming alongside the rest of the Asian Library team.
| Kids Discover Asia: Discover Asian Games – Ages 5+ | |
| 10:00am-4:00pm | Â Lunar New Year Riddles |
| 1:00-3:00pm | Â Hopscotch |
| 3:00-3:40pm | Â Japanese karuta Card Games and Korean Board Games |
| Â Kids Discover Asia: Asian Language Storytimes & Kamishibai – Ages 0+ (*Storytimes are conducted in both English and Asian languages) |
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| 10:10-10:30am | Â Mandarin Storytime |
| 11:20-11:40am | Â Korean Storytime |
| 11:40am-12pm | Â Kamishibai Japanese Paper Theatre |
| 1:30-1:45pm | Â Persian Storytime with Pardis Sherkani |
| 2:15-2:30 | Â Urdu and Hindi Storytime with Naveena Naqvi |
| Â Kids Discover Asia: Get Crafty – All ages | |
| 10:40-11:20am | Origami: Discover the art of origami and make koi fish and other animals and objects with paper. |
| 12:30-1:00pm | Kite Bookmarks: Create kite bookmarks to celebrate the Lunar New Year using discarded book covers. |
| 1:00-1:30pm | Koinobori (Carp Streamers): Construct your own carp streamer, a Children’s Day tradition in Japan. |
| 2:00-3:30pm | Mehndi by Meet: Experience beautiful henna skin decorations (space limited). |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Origami: Discover the art of origami and make koi fish and other animals and objects with paper. |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Squiggly insects and flowers: Make insects and flowers with pipe cleaners. |
| Â Kids Discover Asia:Â A Japanese Garden Exploration – All ages | |
| 10:00am-4:00pm | In addition to the above activities, UBC Asian Library and UBC Botanical Garden invite you to explore the magic of Nitobe Memorial Garden. Stroll along the pathways, take in the peaceful sights, sounds and smells while completing a scavenger hunt and connecting with nature. |
We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
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