Winter Storytelling Festival
All around the world, winter is a time to come together and enjoy the fascination of legends and lore. Come to our Winter Storytelling Festival (five days during the winter holidays) and be enthralled by storytellers from cultures around the globe. And all day, kids will enjoy hands-on activities such as making a "secret treasure" storybook.
Five days, December 26-30, 2002
Performances daily at 11:30 am & 1:30 pm
Hands-on art activities daily 10 am-5 pm
Festival included with museum admission
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December 26-30, 2002
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Thurs. Dec. 26: | Nancy Calos-Nakano - Asian-Pacific Stories |
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Fri. Dec. 27: | Margaret Read MacDonald - World Folktales |
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Sat Dec. 28: | Rose Cano - Stories of Latin America |
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Sun. Dec. 29: | Hidaat Ephrem - Holiday Stories of East Africa |
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Mon. Dec. 30: | Gene Tagaban-Native American Stories
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Brief Biographies
Nancy Calos-Nakano is back to the Storytelling Festival by popular demand. She is an artist and educator who has been telling stories for 13 years. Her fascinating tales come from around the Pacific.
Margaret Read MacDonald is an expert storyteller for whom the whole world is story material. She has published many story collections and will be telling "cold winter stories,"
including a St. Sylvester's Day Tale.
Rose Cano is a Latina storyteller, playwright, and theater artist. She is the founder of the North-South Conexions Project, a program of cultural exchange. She will sing and tell tales from Mexico and Peru, in English and in Spanish.
Hidaat Ephrem is an Eritrean poet and passionate storyteller. She will tell "Christmas at Our House," as the holiday is seen through the eyes of a child in Eritrea, and through Ephrem's own recollections.
Gene Tagaban is an Alaskan storyteller and performance artist of Tlingit descent, and has worked with theaters around the country. He will share traditional Native American tales of the Tlingit people.
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