The beautiful Kannenfeldpark will again be the location for this year's "Vorlesefest" (storytelling festival), where hundreds of reading enthusiasts from age 3 and their families will gather to enjoy stories, storytelling, and books. The event, which is organized by the Education Department of Basel-Stadt, the organization Buchkinder Basel, and the Foundation Domuterra Gundeldingen, is all about promoting reading and language skills through reading aloud and storytelling. The park will be set up with seven Mongolian yurts, each with different readers, including local celebrities, authors, librarians, and members of reading clubs. In an eighth yurt, children can do crafts and color.
The JUKIBU library staff will also be reading stories in a variety of languages in one of the yurts. Their program includes stories in Italian (11:00), Japanese (11:30), English (12:00), Bosnian (12:30), Spanish (14:00), French (14:30), Turkish (15:00), Arabic (15:30), Albanian (16:00), and Polish (16:30). In each session, the chosen book will be presented in German as well as the foreign language.

Website
buchkinderbasel.ch/wir-lesen-vor

Where
Kannenfeldpark
Burgfelderstrasse
4056 Basel

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