Check Out Our New Sunshine & Stories Podcast!

Welcome to Sunshine & Stories

Sunshine & Stories is a Colorado State Library podcast dedicated to all things summer in public libraries. During our 2024-25 season, keep an eye out for new episodes twice a month from August to May. We’ll explore topics like performers, incentives, outreach, volunteers, capturing impact, and many more ideas related to designing a summer public library program for your whole community (adults included!). Featuring interviews with other Colorado State Library staff and ideas from Colorado library professionals around the state, this podcast aims to provide valuable insight and spark creative ideas in your public library’s own 2025 summer planning. Whether you’re a veteran in the summer library program planning world, a newbie looking to start a summer program for the first time, or someone who’s considering changing up your program a little or a lot this year, we hope this podcast will be a valuable resource for you.

Episode 101: Creative Takes on Coloring Our World:

Episode Summary:

The Colorado State Library’s Youth and Family Services Team, Kate Brunner and Kate Compton, explore all the different ways they can think of to interpret the upcoming 2025 Collaborative Summer Library Program slogan, “Color Our World” as well as the theme of art as an upcoming summer program theme for Colorado’s public libraries. (Full transcript available.)

00:00 – Introduction
01:03 – “Color Our World” how?
12:14 – Book and program highlights
14:16 – Closing

Resources:

Collaborative Summer Library Program
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubins
Museum of Bad Art, Boston, MA
Ontarian Librarian: Bad Art Night 2.0
Creative Quest by Questlove
Art Play! By Meredith Magee Donnelly
The Artful Kid: Paint with Bubbles 3 Ways

Next Drop-in Chat:

Hey Colorado library folks! Join us on August 13, 2024 at 11:00 am to noon Mountain Time for our first online Summer Drop-in Chat. No need to register. Come when you can, stay for as long as you can. See you soon!

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This project is made possible in part by a grant from the US Institute of Museum and Library Service.