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Now Streaming! Don't miss this wonderful day filled with stories, love and laughter. Streaming ticket allows you to watch anytime between now and July 31st. Performance highlights include:
| Antonio Rocha’s solo show A Slave Ship Called Malaga Using his entire body and voice, Antonio sings, dances, narrates, and mimes his way through this poetically toned historical tale told from the perspective of the Malaga ship, which was part of the Transatlantic slave trade in the 1800s. | AASIA Spurred on by the pandemic and the eruption of anti-Asian hate, a group of talented Asian Americas storytellers came together to create Asian American Storytellers in Action (AASIA.) During this year’s festival Eth-Noh-Tec, Eleanor Clement Glass, Bowen Lee, Roopa Mohan, and Linda Yemoto will present a delightful hour of Asian folktales and personal stories. https://asianstorytellers.wixsite.com/home |
| Kirk Waller’s Workshop: Tell Me a Story! This storytelling 101 class is a fun, fast-paced workshop for both beginning and veteran tellers. We will focus on various ways to structure your story and tell in your own unique storytelling style! We will explore structure, content ideas, and delivery and assessing your stories and presentation. | Ingrid Nixon’s solo show Shackleton’s Endurance: Antarctica’s Greatest Survival Epic His ship crushed by Antarctic pack ice, expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton held the lives of 27 men in his hands. This is the story of the ill-fated Endurance expedition, 1914 – 1916. If it were fiction, it would be over the top! |
| Beatrice Bowles Remembrance In remembrance of San Francisco storyteller Beatrice Bowles, who sadly passed in 2021, Kate Farrell will tell a story from Beatrice's beautiful book Spider Grandmother’s Web of Wonders and youth teller Aubrey Elder will do a dramatic reading from Beatrice's upcoming book, Ring of Riddles. | Tim Ereneta’s solo show Long Ago and Far Away Thrilling adventures, clever rascals, and epic romances aren't limited to prestige television. Come hear some of Tim 's favorite forgotten and rarely heard traditional tales from Central Asia and Europe. |
Antonio Rocha
Antonio is originally from Brazil, but came to the USA in 1988 to study mime with Tony Montanaro. Since then Antonio has performed his unique fusion of mime and spoken word with his tenor voice and realistic sound effects, from Brazil to New Zealand, covering 15 countries across 6 continents. Antonio has many recordings, a picture book and earned the coveted Circle of Excellence Award by the National Storytelling Network.
Ingrid Nixon
Ingrid is an award-winning, world-traveling storyteller who whisks listeners away on journeys of the imagination. Exploration nail-biters, tall tales, traditional and personal stories—she tells them all on international expeditions, and at venues around the country, including the National Storytelling Festival. She is a champion liar many times over and – no lie – holds a Masters in Storytelling from East Tennessee State University. She currently hails from Southeast Alaska.
https://ingridnixon.com/
Tim Ereneta
Tim has told stories on stages from Washington, DC, to Chennai, India, performing in theaters, art museums, camps, churches, and nightclubs. Tim believes traditional tales are too much fun to be limited to children, so he seeks out adult audiences to share these stories with timeless themes. The Washington Post called Tim's "methodical manner and quiet wit... a refreshing change of pace." Tim lives in Berkeley, California.
Kirk Waller
With a lifelong love of story, literature and the performing arts, Kirk Waller has been immersed in these art forms for over 20 years. He has garnered
national recognition for his storytelling, including being awarded the J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Grant by the National Storytelling Network, receiving a Parent’s Choice Foundation GOLD award for his CD, “But Why? Stories, Music and Songs” and being a storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn. In addition to being the Director of Storytelling at Stagebridge, he is the former chair of the Storytelling Association of California and is on the advisory board of Tell It On Tuesday at the Marsh in Berkeley. Kirk received his bachelor’s degree in English and his Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
kirkwallerstories.com
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