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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Multilingual Storytime Tent: Back by Popular Demand

The Universities at Shady Grove (USG) is returning to the festival this year with its Multilingual Story Time tent. The tent will focus exclusively on stories in multiple languages and will feature stories read by students and educators. The readings will last 20 minutes, and are scheduled every half hour beginning at 10:30 a.m.

The schedule for the tent will be as follows:

10:30-10:50 — Spanish
11:00-11:20 — Amharic
11:30-11:50 — French
12:00-12:20 — French
12:30-12:50 — Spanish
1:00-1:20 — Spanish
1:30-1:50 — Russian
2:00-2:20 — French
2:30-2:50 — Korean
3:00-3:20 — Spanish
3:30-3:50 — Spanish
4:00-4:20 — Arab

We hope to see you all there!