Hope to see you at the Richmond Hill Art & Studio Tour. Sat., Oct. 13th & Sun., Oct. 14th. 10am – 5pm. Start your self-guided art tour at Richland Academy. 11570 Yonge St., north of Elgin Mills. I’ll be there with my colourful friends–Ryan the grey rhinoceros and Finn the yellow fish. Richmond Hill Studio TourCanscaip Vaughan Writers’ Club www.DanceInTheRain.ca
We Are Colourful Friends
Word On The Street 2017
If you’re attending Word On The Street on Sun., Sept. 24th at Harbourfront (Toronto) visit The Fringe Beat Section, booth #KB10 and enter a draw for a chance to win a JK/SK interactive author visit with Josephine Vaccaro-Chang and her colourful friends. Also, take a picture with Ruby (six foot red flamingo) inspired by the book titled, We Are Colourful Friends.
Amazing Race
We’re participating in our annual family & friends Amazing Race today in Toronto. Good luck to everyone!
Gift
Here’s a picture a Kindergarten student drew of us. I’m the taller one. 🙂
Daytime TV
Tamara Hecht, the President of The Vaughan Writers’ Club & Moe Vyas, Membership Chairperson were recently on Daytime TV with Jacqueline Betterton. Here is a link to their interview.
http://rogerstv.com/media?lid=237&rid=17&gid=276735
We have several upcoming events and you are welcome to join us:
- Sat., May 13th, 2017 from 9am – 2pm. The Book Shelf at 200 Duncan Dr. at the Newmarket Community Centre
- Tues., May 16th, 2017 from 7pm – 8:30pm. Website party launch at Bathurst Clark Resource Library in Vaughan. Located on the south side of the Promenade Mall.
Hope to see you there.
Josephine
Author inspires JK/SK students

Grammy’s 2017
Gigi the Giraffe had a FANTASTIC time at the 2017 Grammy’s. Thank you James Corden & J Lo for welcoming Gigi to her first awards show.
Gigi the Giraffe & Richmond Hill 2017 Cultural Summit
Thank you for inviting Gigi the Giraffe to participate in Richmond Hill’s 2017 Cultural Summit on Thurs., Mar. 30th, 2017 at The Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Gigi was created with funds received through the generosity of Richmond Hill’s 2016 Community & Cultural grant. She is based on a the pink giraffe in the popular children’s book titled, We Are Colourful Friends.
Madonna
Here’s an amazing picture a student from Madonna drew during a workshop this morning.
Professor Emeritus David Booth
The highlight of the 2016 CANSCAIP Packaging Your Imagination Conference was meeting keynote speaker Professor Emeritus David Booth of The Ontario Institute for Studies of Education (OISE) of The University of Toronto. He said, my book, “is a perfect pattern book.”