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Click date for schedule:
Wednesday, April 30
Thursday, May 1
Friday, May 2
Saturday, May 3

 

Time Storyteller Location Story Theme Age Group
10:00 a.m. Heather Forest Pilot's Wheel Tales of Womenfolk Grades 6-8
  Jackie and Glen "Papa"Wright, Jr.
Karen Young
Dust Bowl The Beat of Storytelling
From Dawn to Knight
Grades 4-6
  Robert Greygrass Theater Traditional Man, Modern Times Grades 6-8
  Mike Anderson
Sharon Thompson
Courthouse Gallery Music and Stories and Jokes
Robert Munsch Stories
Grades 1-3
  Shaaron Peters
Gale Portman
Courthouse 3 Sing and Tell
Earth Trails
Grades P-1
 

Heather Harlan
Loretta Washington

Courthouse 4 Around the Campfire
Missouri Boot Heel Stories
Grades 2-4
  Greg Weiss
La Rita Wright
Courthouse Theater Story Stew
Tales to "Bug" You
Grades 2-4
  Ken Wolfe Missouri Botanical Garden

Turtle River

Grades 2-4
  Baba Jamal Koram Missouri History Museum De Busara People Story Grades 5-7
  Deb Swanegan
Steve Otto
Marquette Center Roping the Wind
Fun Stories to "See"
Grades K-2
  Carole Shelton
Angela Williams
Wohl Recreation Center Brer Rabbit and Friends
Grandmother Spider
Grades P-1
  Linda Kram
Marcia Ollinger
New Northside Conference Center Day Care  

Ages
2-5

  Annette Harrison COCA-Center of Creative Arts Theatre   Grades K-2
  Beth Horner Touhill Performing Arts Center American Folktales Grades 5-7
10:30 a.m. Diann Joy Bank
Tracy Walker
Affton Community Center The Enormous Turnip Tales
Gotta Wear Shades
Grades 1-3
11:00 a.m. Ron Adams
Mike Anderson
Pilot's Wheel Buffalo Stories
Music and Stories and Jokes
Grades 7-8
  Mary Jo Huff
Kunama Mtendaji
Dust Bowl Mother Nature's Painted Desert
Traditional African-American Folktales
Grades P-K
  Bobby Norfolk Theater Jack Tales Grades 4-6
 

Perrin Stifel
Blake Travis

Courthouse Gallery History Alive
Stories from the World Village
Grades K-2
  Sharon Thompson Courthouse 3

Cajun Folktales

Grades 4-5
  Dolores Tapia Santha
Jim Two Crows Wallen
Courthouse 4 Legends from Our Past
Lewis and Clark
Grades 5-7
  Shaaron Peters
Loretta Washington
Courthouse Theater Folktale Fun
Adventures of Seamon the Dog
Grades 1-3
  The Storycrafters Missouri Botanical Garden Classics with a Twist Grades 3-5
  Baba Jamal Koram Missouri History Museum Mali Kings Grades K-2
11:30 a.m. Deb Swanegan
Steve Otto
Marquette Center The Golden Box of Stories
Fun Stories to "See"
Grades 2-4
  Carole Shelton
Angela Williams
Wohl Recreation Center Plants, Animals, and Very Strange Things
Turtle's Drum
Grades
2-3
  Beth Horner Touhill Performing Arts Center Three American Soldiers Grades
6-8
Noon Ron Adams
Mike Anderson
Pilot's Wheel Horse Stories
Music and Stories and Jokes
Grades
5-7
  Heather Harlan
Jackie & Glen "Papa" Wright, Jr.
Dust Bowl Around the Campfire
The Rhythm of Stories
Grades
3-5
  Robert Greygrass Theater Trickster Tales, Iktomi the Spider Man Grades
2-4
  Gale Portman
Karen Young
Courthouse Gallery Tall Tales and Legends of the Land Grades
2-4
  Blake Travis
La Rita Wright
Courthouse 3 Stories from the World Village
Creepy Crawly Tales
Grades
1-3
  Mary Jo Huff
Greg Weiss
Courthouse 4 Western Beat
'At's a Fact Jack!
Grades
1-3
  Dolores Tapia Santha
Deb Swanegan
Courthouse Theater Native American Legends
Tales from the Village
Grades
4-5
  Ken Wolfe Missouri Botanical Garden Stories and Lies While U-Wait Grades
3-5
  Larry Brown Missouri History Museum Jack of the Ozarks Grades
3-5
1:00 p.m.

Bobby Norfolk

 

Pilot's Wheel Tales of the Underground Railroad Grades
3-5
  Heather Forest Theater Nature Tales Grades 2-4
  Perrin Stifel
Jim Two Crows Wallen
Dust Bowl History Alive/Tipi Days Grades
4-6
  The Storycrafters Missouri Botanical Garden Catch the World by the Tale Grades
4-6
 

Diann Joy Bank
Marcia Olinger

COCA--Center of Creative Arts    

Schedule is subject to change.

‡ Pilot’s Wheel, Dust Bowl, and Theater are located in the Visitor Center under the Gateway Arch.
> Blanchette Park is in the City of St. Charles.
~ Interpreted for the hearing/deaf.


Plan to Attend the 29th Annual
St. Louis Storytelling Festival

April 30-May 3

Can't wait for the Festival to begin? Click here to listen to Ken Wolfe talk about his Martian parents on KWMU... (Scroll down to Segment B and then select WMP or MP3.)


Attention,
School Teachers

STUDY GUIDE
Download our new St. Louis Storytelling Festival Study Guide to learn how to use the Festival to address standards.

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