Today, Sunday, March 23rd marks the fourth
anniversary of StoryFest, the annual gathering of story tellers, presenters,
and great stories to celebrate the power of stories to inspire us, and help us
understand and delight in our world. StoryFest
2014 begins at 11:00 am SLT and is free, with donations going to benefit War Child
North America. It is presented
in a partnership between Branwen Arts, Stories Unlimited! and Seanchai Library. A detailed schedule and content are available
at http://storyfestsl2011.blogspot.com/.
“It started out just as a wacky notion of a fair filled with
storytellers. We tried it, and had
enough fun to make some changes to the initial format, and keep on going,”
commented organizers Dubhna Rhiadra and Caledonia Skytower. “We wanted to create a forum for presenters
of all kinds from across the grid to come, share stories, and honor what
stories of all kinds mean to us as part of the human experience.”
The original event in 2011, was planned adjacent to World
Storytelling Day (March 20th)
which is an
annual worldwide celebration of traditional storytelling. This year’s World Storytelling Day theme was “Monsters
and Dragons” and those applying to present at StoryFest were encouraged to use
that theme if they wished, but not be limited to it. “So you will hear stories presented from all
over the world by a great range of presenters.”
StoryFest organizers not discriminate between read literature, and tales
told from a memorized out line in the traditional manner of oral
storytelling. “As long at the story is
presented well, and appropriate credit is given to the source and creators, we
do not really care.”
All Times SLT ~ Schedule subject to change without notice,
sometimes even to those organizing!
11:00am - Dubhna
Rhiadra
11:30am - Shandon
Loring
Noon - Crap Mariner
12:30pm - Lycanthia
Wolfhunter
*break*
1:30pm - Luna Branwen
2:00pm - Corwyn Allen
2:30pm - Caledonia Skytower
3:00pm - BigRed
Coyote
3:30pm - Kaikilani
4:00pm - Singh
Albatros
The event begins this morning at the Story Circle at Bran ‘s “Here Be Pictsies”
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bran/74/135/25
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