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Bil Lepp is coming!

Bil Lepp is coming!

We’re busy, busy, busy! The Timpanogos Storytelling Institute offers storytelling concerts, workshops, contests and school programs, not only during our annual festival, but throughout the year. Recent events have included the Utah’s Biggest Liar Contest, and concerts by Charlotte Blake Alston, Kim Weitcamp, Donald Davis and Steffani Raff.

Our current offering is a Bil Lepp telling tall tales at the Thanksgiving Point Gardens on May 4.

No journal? All is not lost!

No journal? All is not lost!

So, you want to build a story from personal experiences but you didn’t keep a journal? All is not lost. Categorical memory triggers, or journal prompts can help you remember and rebuild past events and moments.

Radio Programs that Celebrate Story

Radio Programs that Celebrate Story

While face-to-face storytelling is the ideal, most of us can’t attend storytelling festivals or sit around a campfire each weekend so we have to get our fill through other mediums such as radio, which is still one of the best places to find great oral storytelling.

Hauntings – What can we learn from a good scary story?

Hauntings – What can we learn from a good scary story?

Can you think of the first really scary story that you heard? Perhaps it was a ghost story at a sleepover, or an urban legend around a campfire. Do you remember how you felt? If you are like me, you probably felt fear and excitement simultaneously. What is it that draws us to these stories? Is it just the adrenaline rush, or is there something we can learn about ourselves in these dark corners?

Antonio Sacre is coming!

Antonio Sacre is coming!

At the invitation of the  Timpanogos Storytelling Institute Antonio Sacre will be performing a live concert on Monday, October 13 at 7:00 pm at the Orem Public Library. He recently performed at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, and I am a big fan. He...

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