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The Shirlington Branch Library is the proud owner of a Haitian Tap Tap Bus, designed by children at the Drew After School Center.
The young artists from Drew worked for 2 months to create the bus, which is their contribution to the Summer Reading club festivities at Shirlington. The students also decorated t-shirts to send to children in Petit-Goave, Haiti, who lost their library in last year's earthquake.
What is a Tap Tap Bus?
Most people in Haiti don't own private cars, so they use buses instead. Tap Taps, which get their name from the "sound of taps on the metal bus body signifying a passenger?s request to be dropped off" (creativeroots.org) are intricately painted in order to attract passengers as well as illustrate a driver's skill and personality.
You can learn more about the role Tap Tap Buses play in Haiti's transportation and cultural landscape from a March 2010 PBS Newshour segment, Tap Tap Bus Art Flourishes After Quake.
- Last Day To Sign Up For Summer Reading
Wednesday, Aug. 31 is the LAST day to sign kids up for our Get Caught Reading summer reading program - and to help raise money to rebuild the Petit Goave Library in Haiti. Statistics for Aug. 30, 2011Did you know that over 7000 kids and teens signed up...
- Video: We Read For Haiti
As of July 30, 6811 kids have signed up for summer reading, and to help send money to rebuild the Petit Goave Library in Haiti. Desiree, youth services librarian at the Columbia Pike Branch Library, wrote up the full story for IFLA's June...
- Haitian Tap Tap Arrives At Westover Library
On Tuesday the Westover Branch Library celebrated the arrival of a replica Haitian Tap Tap bus which was created by students at the Langston-Brown After School Center. The painted buses serve as a visual reminder that reading this summer will not only...
- Adopt A Library: Help Us To Help Petit Goave Library
For the past year, the Petite Goave Library has operated out of a tent In January 2011, the Arlington Public Library adopted the Petit Goave Library in Haiti, which was damaged in the devastating January 2010 earthquake. How can you help us to...
- Helping Haiti--a New Partnership
Arlington Public Library is reaching out to Haiti with the goal of helping rebuild the municipal library in the coastal town of Petit-Goâve a year after the devastating earthquake and aftershocks. Destroyed Petit-Goâve Library A year ago on Jan. 12,...
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Haitian Tap Tap Bus Arrives at Shirlington
The Shirlington Branch Library is the proud owner of a Haitian Tap Tap Bus, designed by children at the Drew After School Center.The young artists from Drew worked for 2 months to create the bus, which is their contribution to the Summer Reading club festivities at Shirlington. The students also decorated t-shirts to send to children in Petit-Goave, Haiti, who lost their library in last year's earthquake.
What is a Tap Tap Bus?
Most people in Haiti don't own private cars, so they use buses instead. Tap Taps, which get their name from the "sound of taps on the metal bus body signifying a passenger?s request to be dropped off" (creativeroots.org) are intricately painted in order to attract passengers as well as illustrate a driver's skill and personality.
You can learn more about the role Tap Tap Buses play in Haiti's transportation and cultural landscape from a March 2010 PBS Newshour segment, Tap Tap Bus Art Flourishes After Quake.
- Last Day To Sign Up For Summer Reading
Wednesday, Aug. 31 is the LAST day to sign kids up for our Get Caught Reading summer reading program - and to help raise money to rebuild the Petit Goave Library in Haiti. Statistics for Aug. 30, 2011Did you know that over 7000 kids and teens signed up...
- Video: We Read For Haiti
As of July 30, 6811 kids have signed up for summer reading, and to help send money to rebuild the Petit Goave Library in Haiti. Desiree, youth services librarian at the Columbia Pike Branch Library, wrote up the full story for IFLA's June...
- Haitian Tap Tap Arrives At Westover Library
On Tuesday the Westover Branch Library celebrated the arrival of a replica Haitian Tap Tap bus which was created by students at the Langston-Brown After School Center. The painted buses serve as a visual reminder that reading this summer will not only...
- Adopt A Library: Help Us To Help Petit Goave Library
For the past year, the Petite Goave Library has operated out of a tent In January 2011, the Arlington Public Library adopted the Petit Goave Library in Haiti, which was damaged in the devastating January 2010 earthquake. How can you help us to...
- Helping Haiti--a New Partnership
Arlington Public Library is reaching out to Haiti with the goal of helping rebuild the municipal library in the coastal town of Petit-Goâve a year after the devastating earthquake and aftershocks. Destroyed Petit-Goâve Library A year ago on Jan. 12,...