Mama Moon: A Story About Love and Mental Health - A reading, guided art activity, and guitar sing-al

Name: Mama Moon: A Story About Love and Mental Health - A reading, guided art activity, and guitar sing-al
Start: 2025-04-12T11:00:00-04:00
Location: 184 S. Candler St. , Decatur, GA, United States, Georgia 30030

Schedule

Sat, 12 Apr, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

184 S. Candler St. , Decatur, GA, United States, Georgia 30030 | Decatur, GA

This event takes place in person at Charis and on Crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance. Use the link below to register to attend virtually. Please read the in-person event guidelines at the bottom of this page to be sure you can participate in the event. This event centers young children (ages 4-8) but all are welcome!
Charis welcomes Noah Grigni for a celebration of Mama Moon: A Story About Love and Mental Health.
Mama Moon is the deeply felt and beautifully told story of a child who muses that their mother is like the moon—ever changing, sometimes blue, sometimes bright.
Mama loves warm summers, and eating cherries while stargazing with Baba and Kiddo. But on her bluest of days, she can’t do the things that other mamas do. Persevering with love, no matter what phase Mama is in, this family weathers the ups and downs of a loved one's illness.
About the Author
Noah Grigni is a children's book author and illustrator living on Muskogee land. They make art in collaboration with their community, exploring themes of memory, dreams, gender, ecology, interdependence, care, and abolition. Noah is the illustrator of It Feels Good To Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn (2019), The Every Body Book by Rachel Simon (2020), and The Every Body Book of Consent by Rachel Simon (2024). Their debut picture book as both author and illustrator, Mama Moon, comes out on April 15th, 2025.
The event is free and open to all people, especially to those who have no income or low income, but we encourage and appreciate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle, our programming non-profit. Charis Circle's mission is to foster sustainable feminist communities, work for social justice, and encourage the expression of diverse and marginalized voices. Donate on Crowdcast or via our website: www.chariscircle.org/donate.
In-person event guidelines:
- All attendees must wear a face mask during the event.
- We will begin seating people at 10:30AM EST.
- This event will be live-streamed via Crowdcast. Use the link below to register to attend virtually.
- As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event.
Nat Skinner (they/them) will be providing ASL interpretation at this event. If you would like to watch the event with live AI captions, you may do so by watching it in Google Chrome and enabling captions: Instructions here. Please contact us at [email protected] or 404-524-0304 if you have other accessibility needs or if you are someone who has skills in making digital events more accessible.
By attending our virtual event you agree to our Code of Conduct: Our event seeks to provide a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), class, or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Unsolicited sexual language and imagery are not appropriate. Anyone violating these rules will be expelled from this event and all future events at the discretion of the organizers. Please report all harassment to [email protected] immediately.