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World Kamishibai Forum February 15-16, 2025 A Free Event for educators, Librarians, storytellers, Kamishibai fans and the Kamishibai curious! The World Kamishibai Forum will bring together and celebrate the diversity of Kamishibai performance styles from around the world. Librarians, teachers and storytellers will have the opportunity to learn from internationally recognized Kamishibai experts. The two days will encompass “How to” workshops and Kamishibai storytelling and presentations. Attendees will experience how Kamishibai inspires and teaches children to love storytelling and literature. Kamishibai is a traditional Japanese storytelling and performance art that uses illustrated paper cards and a narrator. The word kamishibai literally translates to "paper theater" in Japanese. Kamishibai (Storybox) brings international folk tales and other stories to life for people, from toddlers to teens and beyond. In this Japanese storytelling tradition, a professional storyteller reveals a series of illustrations as the narrative unfolds. Visit: https://writeoutloudsd.com/world-kamishibai-forum-2025/

For a few weeks in late spring, thousands of fireflies emerge at the Congaree National Park in South Carolina to blink in synchrony. Scientists are trying to learn their secrets and to protect them.

World-record chaser Hilde Dosogne is used to running extreme distances. Still, she says she underestimated the challenge. She's now hoping to make it official with a Guinness World Record.

Democratic Rep. Mark Levin, who represents a closely divided district covering North San Diego County, was among only six Democrats statewide to vote for the Laken Riley Act. Members of Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Carlsbad are calling him out.

A 10-story building made from cold-formed steel held up to a generated earthquake by the earthquake shake table at UC San Diego. They were testing the building material by reproducing the Bay Area’s Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989

The Friends of the Malcolm X Library present our Annual Fundraiser, Gift Day. The Friends support the library, in part by having book sales and hosting events. This event is free and will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Our event will feature amazing local talent including a live band and DJ, a choir, a story teller, line dancers and face painting for the kids. Local vendors will be selling a variety of great merchandise. The Friends of the Malcolm X Library will be selling hot dogs, nachos, beverages and books. There will also be an opportunity drawing where you can enter to win great prizes. Come have fun and support the library. Visit: https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/locations/valencia-park-malcolm-x-library

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. Follow filmmaker Vianet Djenguet as he documents a grueling but vital mission to habituate a notoriously protective 450-pound silverback, in a last-ditch effort to save the critically endangered Eastern lowland gorillas from extinction.

What do you say to people when they ask you why you aren't drinking? How do you get your friends to hang out in places other than bars? We tackle the social conundrums of sober socializing.

Here’s everything voters need to know about Measure R, the National City parcel tax ballot measure.

South Park skewered President Trump. Stephen Colbert isn't holding back. This week, comedians on Paramount-owned shows aired their grievances against both their parent company and Trump.