Stories in Your Language and Mine

For Families
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Reading Library

Free with Museum admission

Join us for a day celebrating multilingual storytelling and music!

Join students from Tal Goldfajn’s Community, Storytelling, and Translation course at UMass-Amherst for a day of interactive bilingual storytelling in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and more. The day will also include live Brazilian music and traditional children’s songs in Portuguese from the band BR413.

Schedule

10:00am – 11:30am: Bilingual Storytime (Reading Library)

11:30am - 12:00pm: Musica from Brazil with BR413 (Auditorium)

12:00pm - 2:00pm: Bilingual Storytime (Reading Library)

2:00pm - 2:30pm: Musica from Brazil with BR413 (Auditorium)

 

Who You'll Meet
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Spanish & Portuguese Studies at UMass: Community, Storytelling, and Translation

A collaboration between the Spanish and Portuguese Studies program and The Carle, Tal Goldfajn’s Community, Storytelling, and Translation course seeks to strengthen community by celebrating linguistic diversity. Trained in The Carle’s Whole Book Approach, students are exploring how to use picture books to engage children in bilingual storytelling.
Spanish & Portuguese Studies at UMass
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Tal Goldfajn

Tal Goldfajn is a linguist, translator and translation scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies department. Together with her students at UMass Amherst she founded the Pipa Project initiative for the promotion of translated children’s literature and multilingual storytelling.

Faculty website
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Pipa Project

The Pipa Project is an initiative that promotes picture books in translation and is part of the Spanish and Portuguese Studies at UMass.
Pipa Project
Explore Further
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Event

Bilingual Storytime: Marcelo, Martello, Marshmallow

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Join us for a bilingual reading of this beloved Brazilian picture book.

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Event

Picture Books from Brazil: Bilingual Storytime

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Join students from the Portuguese Program at UMass for this bilingual storytime in English and Portuguese.

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Story Board

Curating a Book Exhibition that Highlights Translation

Learn how a class of students at Amherst College curated the book exhibition, Read the World: Picture Books and Translation.  
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Current Exhibition

Entwined Memory: Indigenous Stories of Creation, Place, and Continuity

August 8, 2025 - August 2, 2026