Fri 11/5 @ 7PM
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is celebrating its 100th anniversary with its Centennial Speaker Series, featuring diverse individuals working on intriguing studies or projects.
The upcoming event has a distintive speaker indeed. Bellen Woodard is only ten years old and has been dubbed “the World’s First Crayon Activist.” She founded Bellen’s More Than Peach Project to create a line of multicultural crayons to reflect the wide range of skin colors unlike the old Crayola boxes that dubbed a very pale tan color “flesh,” as if flesh only came in one color. Her aim was for people to use them to teach tolerance and empathy; she’s gone on to develop other inclusive products and she’s writing a children’s book due out next year.
You can attend the program in person at the museum on online. Tickets are $15 for CMNH members, $25 for non-members. Go here to register.
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