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Saturday 28 OctOber 2017

At the Children’s Book Festival:

Stories from Everywhere, the Past and Present

ORANJESTAD - Loekie Mo- tory. In 1998 she finalized ‘Kids Night Out’ (Storytell-
rales visits Aruba to partici- the post Technical school ing evening for Kids) and
pate in the Children’s Book for Environmental Science the ‘Caribbean Living Stat-
Festival this November. She (HTS) and after that she ob- ues Festival’, the first one of
will tell children stories from tained her Master’s degree its kind in the Caribbean.
her books, her past and her in Environmental Geogra- Since 2002 Loekie Morales
grandmother who told her phy (1993) at the University participates in children
many stories. of Nijmegen. She moved book festivals in Aruba, Cu-
back to Sint Maarten in racao, Bonaire, Saba, Sint
Loekie is excited to contrib- 2000. Besides her profes- Eustatius, Sint Maarten and
ute once more to the fes- sional career Loekie Mo- Surinam.
tival and looks forward to rales has a passion for writ- The Children’s Book Festival
visiting many schools and ing and promotes reading is the local library’s annual
interaction with schoolchil- for children. This is why she project to promote read-
dren. Biblioteca Nacional started the Beyond Writing ing amongst children and
Aruba is proud to present Foundation in 2003. is in full motion all through
the 25th edition of the Chil- Loekie Morales writes chil- the first week of November.
dren’s book festival and dren stories and has pub- The activities take place in
hopes to reach as many lished 9 children books. schools all over the island
children as possible and ‘Zonnesproetjes’, ‘Over- as well as at the library in
boost reading and the love seas Bloodline’, ‘Papito Oranjestad and the San
for books. The library has in- and the Story Telling Tree’, Nicolas branch.
vited writers and illustrators ‘Selina and the Obeah The Children’s Book Fes-
and storytellers from the is- Woman’, ‘Bonte Boel’, ‘Tro- tival opens with an open
land and abroad to reach pisch Nestje’, ‘The Magic air grand fiesta for children
this goal. Wedding Cake’, ‘Mina Ma- and their parents on Fri-
Loekie Morales was born rina’ and ‘Freedom Salsa’, day, November 3, at 6pm,
in Curacao. After finishing to mention a few. As presi- behind the library in Oran-
high school, she moved to dent of the ‘Beyond Kultura jestad. The public Library
Holland where she studied Events Foundation’, she offers fun activities in the
to become a high school has also been proactive afternoon from November
teacher in 1986 in the sub- in creating and executing 6 to 9 from 3pm to 4pm for
jects Geography and His- innovative events like the all children. q

Love4Art Studio Exhibits New Works at Bureau Sostenemi

TANKI FLIP - The members of the Love4Art Studio opened
their new exposition at Bureau Sostenemi in Tanki Flip 53A.
This is a group exposition of a rich variety of new color-
ful works. The opening took place last Thursday evening,
October 26.

Bureau Sostenemi is the call point for child abuse and neglect on the island. Bureau
Sostenemi recently moved from Wayaca to Tanki Flip and now has a larger and more
comfortable space. To give the interior a lift Love4Art Studio was approached to help
out. This is the second exposition for Love4Art Studio in an office space of an organiza-
tion. There is also a collection of artworks in the CEDE office (Margrietsraat).q