Tuesday, November 16 2021, 2pm Zoom On Tuesday, November 16 at 2pm The Wounaan Cultural Team is launching its new trilingual illustrated storybook, Wounaan döhigaau nemchaain hoo wënʌʌrrajim / Durante su aventura, los niños wounaan vieron muchas aves / The Adventures of Wounaan Children and Many Birds. The presentation is part of the Establishing Sustainable Community-Based Research Partnerships series and will be spoken (mostly!) in Spanish (with text translation for the small portion in English). If you would like to participate, please register at: tinyurl.com/WounaanBookLaunch All the living authors--Chenier Carpio Opua, Doris Cheucarama Membache, Dorindo Membora Peña, Chindío Peña Ismare, and Julia Velásquez Runk-- will present the book, together with artist (and graduate of UGA's scientific illustration program) Frankie Grin. The book is part of the second of two grants from the Small Grants Program (of the Global Environment Facility and United Nations Development Program) to Panama's Foundation for the Development of Wounaan People and the Wounaan National Congress and with the NGO Native Future on bird guiding, bird relationships, and forest restoration. At UGA, the talk is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and the Arts, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute, Willson Center DigiLab, Institute of Native American Studies, Center for Integrative Conservation Research, and the Mary Frances Early College of Education. Zoom Registration
