{"id":1686,"date":"2015-02-25T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2015-02-25T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T03:03:19","slug":"michael-kusugak-was-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2015\/02\/25\/michael-kusugak-was-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kusugak was here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had the pleasure of hosting\u00a0Inuit author and storyteller, <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelkusugak.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=66\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Kusugak<\/a>. He had two one hour sessions with primary students from BCSD and South Slope. We were thoroughly entertained by his humorous and relaxed storytelling. Michael told us that his last name, Kusugak, means icicle and his middle name, Arvaarluk, means baby bowhead whale.\u00a0 We also\u00a0learned we knew a few words in Inuktitut like igloo and\u00a0kayak. He even did a bit of magic and storytelling with just a simple piece of string. While telling the story of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Littlest Sled Dog<\/span> Michael began singing &#8220;Somewhere over the rainbow&#8221;, the students joined in\u00a0and the library was filled with beautiful voices.\u00a0 At the end of each session, three\u00a0lucky students won signed copies of his books.\u00a0 We hope he had as much fun as we did!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/M-Kusugak-02252015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1687\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/M-Kusugak-02252015-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"M Kusugak 02252015\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/M-Kusugak-02252015-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/M-Kusugak-02252015.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/M-Kusugak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1688\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/M-Kusugak-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"M Kusugak\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/M-Kusugak-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/M-Kusugak.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can check out his books from the library any time!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/mkbooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1703\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/mkbooks-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"mkbooks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/mkbooks-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/mkbooks-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/02\/mkbooks.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had the pleasure of hosting\u00a0Inuit author and storyteller, Michael Kusugak. He had two one hour sessions with primary students from BCSD and South Slope. We were thoroughly entertained by his humorous and relaxed storytelling. Michael told us that his last name, Kusugak, means icicle and his middle name, Arvaarluk, means baby bowhead whale.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2015\/02\/25\/michael-kusugak-was-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Kusugak was here!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,44,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}