{"id":1293,"date":"2003-11-27T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2015-05-17T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:34:03","slug":"jubilee-librarys-80-years-in-st-martin-for-the-love-of-books-reading-and-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2003\/11\/27\/jubilee-librarys-80-years-in-st-martin-for-the-love-of-books-reading-and-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubilee Library\u2019s 80 years in St. Martin \u2013 for the love of books, reading and knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ST. MARTIN\u00a0<\/strong>(November 27, 2003) \u2014 The Philipsburg Jubilee Library will host a practical serenade of words, ideas, stories and languages here on Saturday, November 29, 2003, said Shujah Reiph, president of the Conscious Lyrics Foundation (CLF).<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday soiree is the second of three weekends of activities celebrating the library\u2019s 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary as St. Martin\u2019s first modern library for the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Some ten readers will recite short selections of adult and young people\u2019s literature from classic and contemporary books, and from published and unpublished works in English, Papiamentu, Dutch, Spanish and French, said Reiph.<\/p>\n<p>The selections of poetry, fiction, prose non-fiction, drama, and literary criticism, will be drawn from the works of authors such as Maryse Conde, Changa, Federico Garcia Lorca, Illis Juliana, Fabian Badejo, CLR James and Loeki Morales.<\/p>\n<p>The readers will also reflect a range of folks, including authors and unpublished writers such as Papa Umpo, Dr. Maria van Enckevort, Joe Dominique, Clara Reyes, Lyzanne Charles, Chantal Williams, Fabian Badejo and Changa.<\/p>\n<p>The 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary reading will not only highlight the wide range and quality of books in the Jubilee Library collection but the lively state of writing developing in St. Martin and \u201cthe love of the culture for languages and a good story,\u201d said Reiph.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s anniversary organizing team is headed by CLF and includes Philipsburg Jubilee Library and House of Nehesi Publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. MARTIN\u00a0(November 27, 2003) \u2014 The Philipsburg Jubilee Library will host a practical serenade of words, ideas, stories and languages here on Saturday, November 29, 2003, said Shujah Reiph, president of the Conscious Lyrics Foundation (CLF). The Saturday soiree is the second of three weekends of activities celebrating the library\u2019s 80th anniversary as St. Martin\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2003"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}