The VCBF is for everyone.
9:30am-11:00am
The Virginia Children’s Book Festival has special programming is designed to accommodate children with sensory-sensitivity and communication issues. Longwood Speech, Hearing and Learning Services invites preK children for an interactive program with award-winning author Wendy Shang. She will read her book “The Rice in the Pot” and children in songs and activities. Children will have the opportunity to engage with Longwood students and enjoy language and literacy activities that accompany the book's theme. Sensory sensitive and diverse learning programming will take place at Longwood’s Speech, Hearing, and Learning Services, where trained professionals will offer guidance and assistance during sessions.
For more information about SHLS, please contact
Speech, Hearing & Learning Services
315 W. Third Street
Farmville, VA 23901
(434) 395-2972
Fax: (434) 395-2622
Mural Painting at the LCVA
12:00pm-1:00pm
Join the trained staff at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts for this sensory-sensitive painting session. Muralist Monty Montgomery will help children paint the 2022 VCBF LIVEmural in this quiet, dimly-let session, just down the block from SHLS.
For more information about the LCVA, please contact
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts
129 North Main Street
Farmville, VA 23901
(434) 395-2972
Fax: (434) 395-2206
