Showing posts with label Spirit of Oklahoma Storytelling Festival (2023). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spirit of Oklahoma Storytelling Festival (2023). Show all posts

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

AN INTRODUCTION TO STORYTELLING: STORYTELLING 101 WITH FRAN STALLINGS

Oklahoma's own Fran Stallings, a nationally known storyteller who has traveled the globe sharing tales, will be the workshop leader for a STORYTELLING 101: A Beginning Guide to Storytelling. 

Fascinated by the subject, want to expand your skills, receive quality training information on storytelling?  This event is for you!

The cost for this special pre-festival event is only $10 and is suitable for ages 16 and above.

Reserve your spot online at territorytellers.org under "Events" or pay with cash/check at the door at the event.

The workshop will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the Parlor of the educational building of Stroud First United Methodist Church (corner of N 2nd Ave. and E 4th Street) just one block south of Main/Route 66 in Stroud.

That evening, return for a free and open to the public meet, greet, and tell and mingle with storytellers and fans!
 

"DEVELOPING A FAMILY TRADITION OF STORYTELLING" with Kansas author and storyteller, Rose Cutrer, June 3, 2023 in Stroud, Oklahoma

 

Saturday morning from 9-10:30 a.m. Rose Cutrer will present, at the 17th Annual Spirit of Oklahoma Storytelling Festival to be held in Stroud, Oklahoma, June3, 2023,  a workshop designed to give families the tools to enrich the lives of members. 

Rosie Cutrer, a storyteller from Topeka, Kansas, has been telling stories professionally for the past fifteen  years, presenting at festivals, schools, libraries and museums.  

In the past few years, she has been invited to perform at: the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival,  the Kansas Storytelling Festival, The Land Run Festival in Choctaw, Oklahoma, the Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Nebraska and was a featured teller at the Kearney Area Storytelling Festival in 2011. 

In October of 2010 she made a storytelling tour of Ireland telling in schools and libraries in County Wexford and in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

"Rosie is a tour de force in storytelling. She accommodates all ages and has performed at the national park service for three years now. She was so well received that the principals and teachers have asked her back for a return engagement."   -Amy Garrett - Park Ranger / Homestead National Monument /Beatrice, Nebraska

ALL DAY SAT. PASS will be $35 and a Half Day will be $20.

Additionally, she will be the featured teller in the evening story concert and entry without the above mentioned passes will be only $5.00 per person. Stories for the event are all appropriate for ages 16 and older.