Hello friends in Sacramento!! Ninang Silly storytime is back and LIVE at Arden Fair this Saturday to read you an awesome story about Lunar New Year!! All kids that participate will get a special gift!
Come to Arden Fair this Saturday at 10!
Arden Fair (1689 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA)
@ardenfair
🗣calling all Oakland neighbors! 🧺 SATURDAY OCT 9 🧺 Come to Joaquin Miller Park and celebrate the completion of the water restoration project! 💧 Bring a picnic and the whole family, listen to speeches, sing songs, and stay for some poetry read by Oakland’s First Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga 📚 For more info visit👉🏼 ~ ~ ✊🏼Support your local parks by becoming a volunteer or donate! @fojmp
had a great conversation, and shared some music with new friends over at @memekidswear 👋🏼💌 @reinaleilani and I talked about what being a Ninang means, my love for music, and building community 🏘 💕
I curated a playlist called ‘Down the 5’ which you can find on @memekidswear ’s Spotify. It’s an ode to the many trips as a kid shuffling up and down the 5 freeway to visit family, go to Disneyland, to LA’s Garment District to buy cute dresses at wholesale prices, to San Diego, and everywhere in between.
Music has always played an influential and connecting part in my life, and I’ve always felt compelled to share that love 💕
Thank you to our neighbors at @memekidswear for allowing me to share some words on spreading more good in the neighborhood 🤜🏼🤛🏼 You can read the full interview by visiting their Instagram page and tapping 👉🏼that link in bio ☺️
Also super huge shoutout to my photographer mama @chungtech and TQB for being super awesome sports/muses! 🥰 swipe to see how we coerced a bear for a photo 😂😂
Crying Is Like the Rain by Heather Hawk Feinberg 💧 Ninang here with a reminder that emotions are like the weather and crying is like the rain. We need it, just not all the time! Healthy expression of emotions helps keep them in control, so they don’t control us! ✨
NOW OPEN! The Library! 📚 During the pandemic, the Oakland Public Library made it super easy to find books, movies, and book+movie bundles for kids and adults alike! Ninang rekindled her love for stories through the discovery of new children’s books, and has kept her own reading list robust without having to spend any *more*💰! (Remember our taxes help fund libraries!) Oakland public library also has a great collection of audiobooks and e-books as well! And now with the library open 😍 more time to peruse and discover! This v super cute adorable library card was designed by a 16 year old!! Please give your local library a visit if you can, and check out a book or two! (Did you know that the Oakland Public Library allows you to check out **50** titles at a time?!😱) 😂 Do you have any book suggestions that Ninang could read for our next storytime? 📚
Ninang did a very silly and scary thing yesterday! She attempted standup comedy!! this has been on Ninang’s bucket list for a lonnnnggggg time, and now that it’s crossed off, she wants to do it again!! Thank you to our friends at @7thwestoakland and @b1tc1ty for giving me the opportunity to make *big kids* laugh IRL!
Ninang Silly and the gang had a wonderful time cleaning the neighborhood beach of Alameda! ☀️🏖 It was a good reminder of how easy it is to leave a mess! And! How much easier it is to clean when we have help! Taking *care* of our home (Earth), means minding our waste! 🗑 🌼Remember to pack away trash and/or throw it in the right receptacles. When we all do our part, it benefits us all and for future generations. Thanks to our neighbors who took time out of their day to help us keep our 🌏 clean 🧼
The Ninang Silly Gang will be airing our very special 🌍 Earth Day 🌎 episode on April 28 from @nurturestateshop 🌱 Thank you to everyone who ordered our activity kit, they should be headed your way soon! 🤗
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It is believed that on this day April the 20th in 1853, Harriet Tubman, born Armanita Ross, started her work of the Underground Railroad. Over the period of 10 years, courageous Tubman helped liberate 70 Americans in captivity by slave-holding states in the Civil War. During the Civil War, she also served as a scout, a nurse, a cook, and even served as an advisor to Colonel James Montgomery during an operation that freed 700 Americans in South Carolina. And if she wasn’t amazing enough, in 1898 Miss Harriet underwent brain surgery and elected to *not* have anesthesia. 😱
We honor the courageous Harriet, “Moses,” who on this railroad, did not lose a single passenger. 🔒
Ninang needs your help to clean up the beach! We are doing another Beach Clean-Up next Saturday April 24 in Alameda! 10a to 2pm ✨ Please wear your mask, bring a trash bag, and something to protect your hands! (& a trash claw if you have one!) Hope to see you there! 🏖
