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MEET THE TELLERS:
Janice Del Negro is a storyteller, author, educator, and coach who excavates and decorates the bones of traditional folk and fairy tales as an invitation to others to do the same. Her newest storytelling book, Folktales Aloud: Practical Tips for Playful Storytelling, was published by the American Library Association in 2014; her latest recording is Fortune’s Daughters: Ghost Tales and Folktales.
Featured at numerous festivals and conferences, including, the National Storytelling Conference, Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Illinois Storytelling Festival, and Tejas Storytelling Festival, Del Negro is a senior board member of Illinois Storytelling, Inc. and an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University, Illinois.
She is a recipient of the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence Award, “presented to artists who are recognized by their peers to be master storytellers who set the standards for excellence and have demonstrated, over a significant period of time, a commitment and dedication to the art of storytelling.”
Alton Takiyama-Chung is a Japanese-Korean storyteller who grew up with the superstitions and the magic of the Hawaiian Islands. He tells stories of Hawaii, of the Japanese-American experience of WWII, and Asian folktales, and has performed at the Timpanogas and the National Storytelling Festivals, and at international storytelling festivals in the Cayman Islands, Singapore, India, Vietnam, and Thailand. He also is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors for National Storytelling Network.