To honor the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival’s move to their new home at the Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point, this year’s festival’s theme is Stories Grow Everywhere. The new theme caught my fancy and I decided between now and the festival in September, to put this theory to the test. I’m going to look for stories wherever I go and see if I really do find them growing everywhere.
He was a lawyer, and he was my friend, but I knew he was lying. Talking about a lawyer lying is almost cliche. However, the last few years, I’ve spent way more time than I would like sitting in a court room full of lawyers. And fortunately, in all of those interactions, I don’t think any of them lied, or even skirted the truth.
2016 Storytellers Preview- Kevin Kling and Donald Davis: What Can This Year’s Tellers Teach Us About Making Time for Story?
This year’s theme for the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival is “Make Time for Story” and in the months leading up to the festival we want to find out how our volunteers, our audience and even our tellers make time for story.
The award winning storyteller Kim Weitkamp delighted her audience at the Springville library last Monday with songs and stories to remind us of childhood and the importance of family.
Another storytelling festival has come to an end, and we’re left to share the stories, laughs and lessons with our family and friends. Stories offer many takeaways if you’re looking for them. Below are just a few mixed in with the lies, laughs and life lessons.
Faqs about the Scera Shell venue.
A great southern writer Eudora Welty once said, “Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers” and it’s clear that Kate Campbell loves a good tale.
We are surrounded by stories in our lives. How can we listen with love to those we care about?
If you want to get more out of your storytelling festival experience, whether as a festival attendee or as a performer, practice listening.
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.
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.
It’s the season for giving thanks and at the Timpanogos Storytelling Institute we are grateful for the many teachers and librarians who touch the lives of students with their storytelling. To show our appreciation, we have compiled a list of resources to help you enhance your storytelling.
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.
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?
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 is dynamic, energetic, honest and funny. He weaves English and […]
