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Greensboro StoryFest

Preserving, Presenting, and Celebrating the HEART of Storytelling

NC Storyfest 2010!

NC STORYFEST plans the 6^th annual STORYFEST of Piedmont Triad NC

Friday – Saturday, May 21 – 22, 2010

Building on five years of successful storytelling events in downtown Greensboro, the next STORYFEST will expand to two Piedmont Triad locations for the 6^th annual event celebrating storytelling and featuring outstanding tellers at this FREE EVENT.

Two nationally known tellers head the bill: Cuban-American Leeny Del Seamonds, Master Story Performer featured at Jonesborough last October, and acclaimed Greensboro storyteller/musician, Logie Meachum, appearing at Storyfest for the fourth year. Additional featured North Carolina tellers will be John Golden from Wilmington and Beth Hutchinson from Charlotte, and special guests Sandra Hughes of Greensboro’s WFMY-TV and a return appearance by Japanese teller Yaeko Katsuki from High Point. Emcees introducing tellers and sharing stories will be Cynthia Moore Brown of Brown Summit, Fred Motley of Danville VA, Claire Ramsey of Wake Forest and Charlley Ward of Greensboro.

The Storyfest festival will kick off with a concert on Friday evening, May 21^st at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Penn-Griffin School for the Arts in High Point. Saturday’s events will take place in Greensboro’s downtown cultural district beginning with workshops in the morning from 9 – 12:30 p.m., and telling on two stages from 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. Storyfest will conclude with a new evening event, a high-energy performance at 7:30 p.m. on the mainstage by nationally known African-American teller/musicians from Winston-Salem, The Healing Force.

In addition to the professional storytellers, Storyfest will showcase selected youth storytellers and a “swapping ground” for volunteers. The youth tellers ages 9-17 will have demonstrated their dramatic storytelling skills through participation in a Youth Storytelling Collaborative (YSC) workshop completed in fall, 2009 led by NC Storyfest tellers through a grant funded by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro. Other talented youth tellers will appear who have taken part in a related YSC project jointly sponsored by NC Storyfest and Guilford County Schools entitled “Telling Our Stories, Sharing Our Cultures” at eight schools in the district.

Details about the featured tellers, workshops performance schedule will be added as May 21-22, 2010 nears. In the meantime, mark your calendar and plan to attend STORYFEST 2010.