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Festival Schedule

The Connecticut Storytelling Festival is held on the beautiful campus of Connecticut College in New London, CT, overlooking Long Island Sound. All of the Festival events take place on the campus. The 2008 Festival will begin on Friday evening, April 25 and end at 1:00 pm on Sunday, April 27.

To read more about the artists, click on their names.

FRIDAY EVENING

Cummings Arts Center - Evans Hall
6:30 pm Contra Dancing on the Green with Peter Leibert

7:30 pm Once & Twice Upon A Time
Program for Children over 5 and Their Families ­

Margaret Read MacDonald & Richard Scholtz
Lynn Ruehlmann
Margie Warner
and student tellers

FRIDAY NIGHT

9:15 pm Mid-Nine Cabaret !
Comedy Show for Adults

• Jackson Gillman - Stand-Up Chameleon!

SATURDAY MORNING

Cummings Art Center - Evans Hall

7:30-9:00 am Registration & Coffee

8:45 am Pre-Gathering Musical Introduction

9:00 am-12:00 pm A Gathering of Tellers
Smorgasbord of tellers in performance - for adults

Sirius Coyote
Margaret Read MacDonald & Richard Scholtz
Lynn Ruehlmann
Karen Montanaro
Rita Auerbach & Barbara Hoffman
Kate McClelland
Lorna Stengel



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Blaustein Hall

12:00 pm LUNCH

12:30 -1:15 pm LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE Ernst Common Room, Blaustein Beatrice Biira The story behind "Beatrice's Goat."

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON PERFORMANCES

1:30-3:00 pm

Cummings Art Center - Room 308


A Palette of Stories from the 2007
Anne Izard Award-Winners

Tantalizingly tellable tales, each told by a master storyteller.

Emcee: Carol Birch
Margaret Read MacDonald and Richard Scholtz
Rita Auerbach
Marcia Hupp
Gwendolyn Quezaire Presutti



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Cummings Art Center - Fortune Hall

"Tanzspiel"
Karen Montanaro
a one woman tour de force
blending the arts of mime and dance to create theater
with rare physical and emotional power



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3:30-5:00 pm

Cummings Art Center - Room 308

The Other Side of Fear: Why We Tell and Listen to Scary Stories
Performance/Workshop
Kate McClelland and Lorna Stengel


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Cummings Art Center - Fortune Hall

Music of the Americas
Sirius Coyote



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SATURDAY AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

Blaustein Hall - Various Venues
1:30-3:00 pm

• Jackson Gillman
Sign Language and Storytelling
• Lynn Ruehlmann
Creating Characters for Storytelling
• Margie Warner
Storytelling & Music for Preschoolers

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3:30-5:00 pm
• Margaret Read MacDonald
Playing with Story
• Rita Auerbach and Barbara Hoffman
Songs into Stories/Stories into Songs
a Workshop for the Musical and the Musically Challenged.

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SATURDAY EVENING

Blaustein Hall
5:00-6:00 pm

Wine & Cheese Reception (Ernst Room)
hosted by CSC's Board of Directors

Presentation of the Barbara L. Reed Award

6:00 - 7:15 pm Festival Dinner (Hood Dining Room)

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Cummings Art Center - Evans Hall
7:30 pm

Concert Performance

LAUGHTER (& STORIES!...)
from a Doyenne, a Dean and a Chameleon

Onawumi Jean Moss, Peninnah Schram and Jackson Gillman


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SUNDAY MORNING

Blaustein Hall - Ernst Room


9:00-9:30 am

Coffee & Refreshments

9:30-11:40 am

The Storyteller's Journey: Inspirations, Influences and Insights

Peninnah Schram , Onawumi Jean Moss and Jackson Gillman

Music: Barbara Hoffman

12:00-1:00 pm

Panel Discussion

Peninnah Schram , Onawumi Jean Moss and Jackson Gillman

Musical Interludes: Barbara Hoffman

Closing Ceremony

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MORE INFORMATION:

Complete Festival Schedule, Festival Performers, Registration, CEU Credits, Directions, Prospective Artists.