Hello All: we recently hosted Anshu Varma for a wonderful Teen/Tween program on mehndi (henna) and indian culture-- part of our international outreach for All Together Now. Anshu brought all the materials and even added elements of cultural teaching and demonstrations of the sari. The teens were thrilled and created some amazing Henna art.

Anshu has been listed for many years with the MMLC preferred Performers list and the Michigan Humanities website-- but her email had changed, so i had a hard time reaching her! This is her current contact: Anshuvarma2312@gmail.com

Attached are some photos during the event-- for more, see our Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/GrandLedgeLibrary/

Jean Fellows

(she/hers)

Programming Coordinator

Grand Ledge Area District Library

131 E. Jefferson St.,

Grand Ledge, MI 48837

517-627-7014

The Grand Ledge Area District Library is situated on ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples-- land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. For more information, see the article from Central Michigan University Library:https://blogs.cmich.edu/library/2019/11/26/the-1819-treaty-of-saginaw/#:~:text=In%20the%201819%20treaty%2C%20the,living%20on%20the%20ceded%20territory.