Schedule of Events

9:00 am
THE GATHERING of the
TELLERS

Eshu Bumpus & Motoko – TBA

Kate Danaher & Jim Hawkins – Con and Bridge

Laconia Therrio – “The Wrong Gift” Discovered by JG Pinkerton, Adapted by Laconia Therrio

Suzi Whaple – Laughter From the Hills and Other Strange Places

Czenge Zalka – Dancing on Blades

11:00 am
PERFORMANCES

• Performance 1 – Fortune Hall

• Kate Danaher & Jim Hawkins – A Morning with Eamon Kelly, His Life and His Works
  

• Performance 2 – Evans Hall

• Czenge Zalka – The Book of Hidden Pearls

• Bob Reiser – Everybody Says Freedom

11:00 am
WORKSHOPS

12:45 pm
LUNCH

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm  IN CONCERT
Eshu & Motoko

The internationally known storytelling tandem will perfom – Chicken-Fried Sushi: Stories to Nourish the Soul

3:45 pm
PERFORMANCES

• Performance 1 – Fortune Hall

• Anne Izard Award Winning Stories
  
  Barbara Aliprantis – Where the Mountains Meet the Moon by Grace Lin
  Emily Chasse – Sivu’s Six Wishes by Jude Daley
  Katie Hereld – Pea boy and other Stories from Iran by Elizabeth Laird and The Fountain of Youth a Korean folktale from United States of Storytelling: Folktales and True Stories from the Eastern/Western States by Dan Kedingg
  Sanju Sathish – Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming

• Performance 2 – Evans Hall

• Laconia Therrio – 3 Stories/3 Regions/3 Responses
  


• Suzi Whaples – Selfish - A True Appalachian Story of Enduring Friendship
  

3:45 pm
WORKSHOPS

5:30 pm
WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION and DINNER

7:30 pm
CABARET

Entertainment for grown-ups, with wine and refreshments with emcees
Kate Danaher and Jim Hawkins

Bob Reiser will perform – What’s on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge

Suzi Whaples will perform – I Hear Something - A humorous tale of imagined and unimagined things that go bump in the night.

9:00 pm
CAMPUS SLAMMER FINALS

College students from around the state compete in a story slam.