Last week I was able to be part of the Weber State Storytelling Festival for my third year. I told to a group of third graders on Tuesday morning, and the audience was great. The national teller in my session was Beth Horner, and she was so friendly and gracious. She is an amazingly talented storyteller, and such a nice person. I shared a folktale about the "Girl with a Million Excuses," and Beth told a simultaneously terrifying and hilarious personal tale about the day her heroic brother faced down the menacing buck sheep, and (barely) lived to tell about it.
I also got to do a school outreach program at Boulton Elementary for the upper-grade students. The kids were really great audience members, joining in to help me tell "The Fat Cat." I also shared my (mostly) true story of my run-in with a rogue pair of dentures. We also got the chance to enjoy the preschool story hour at Treehouse Children's Museum and one of the family concerts Monday evening.
It was a great festival. If you have never had the chance to attend, you really should try to catch it next year!
I also got to do a school outreach program at Boulton Elementary for the upper-grade students. The kids were really great audience members, joining in to help me tell "The Fat Cat." I also shared my (mostly) true story of my run-in with a rogue pair of dentures. We also got the chance to enjoy the preschool story hour at Treehouse Children's Museum and one of the family concerts Monday evening.
It was a great festival. If you have never had the chance to attend, you really should try to catch it next year!
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