The Story House Project – a merging of the written word and visual arts created by young writers and artists from the Portland area – will be on exhibit at the Scarborough Public Library through the month of November. An opening reception for the public will be held on Sunday from 1-3 pm.

The Story House Project is the product of a workshop conducted by The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing program in Portland dedicated to young writers and storytellers. Fifteen Portland-area students, originally from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan, worked with local writers to capture their personal journeys to America, resulting in the published anthology, “I Remember Warm Rain,” now in its fourth printing.

The young writers went on to collaborate with student artists from Maine College of Art to create sculptural houses to display their stories. Three Story Houses serve as shelters for the anthologies and include artwork and photographs that reflect events and themes depicted in the stories.

The opening reception at the library will be attended by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, executive director of The Telling Room, and by several of the young authors. Copies of the anthology will also be available for sale. The opening event is free and open to the public.

On Monday, Sara Corbett, author of “Venus to the Hoop: A Gold Medal Year in Women’s Basketball,” contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and co-founder of The Telling Room, will speak at the Scarborough Public Library at 7 p.m.

Corbett’s work for the New York Times Magazine has taken her around the globe. Her feature stories have covered topics including child-trafficking in Cambodia and the psychological struggle of soldiers wounded in Iraq. Her emotional feature, “The Long Road from Sudan to America,” focused on the resettlement of Sudanese orphans in the U.S. and led Corbett to join with other writers to create a vehicle for young refugees to share their life stories. The Telling Room became that vehicle.

Corbett, who lives in Portland, will share excepts from her works and will include readings from the anthology, “I Remember Warm Rain.”

This program is free and open to the public. For more information about this and other Telling Room events at the Scarborough Public Library, log on to www.library.scarborough.me.us or call 883-4723.

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