The art of storytelling exists in every culture around the globe. Tales that teach, inspire, heal and entertain are constantly being shared by people of all ages. Since the early 1990's, it has been the mission of the New Jersey Storytelling Festival to share some of these stories as well as the New Jersey residents who tell them. Novices to professionals, teenagers to senior citizens--New Jersey's storytellers gather yearly to share tales that are as diverse as the tellers themselves.
Wrapping up the festival with a song |
Indoor storytelling, 2007 (photo by Mary Carol Stunkel)
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Moonbeams: Promoting Youth Storytelling
Presenters: Carik Satz, Denise McCormack and Patricia Flores
This workshop will present a national project sponsored by the National Storytellers League designed to provide instructional strategies and techniques to educators, librarians, parents, clergy, youth-leaders, storytellers…and anyone who enjoys storytelling… as they guide young people to learn and to “tell” stories.
Strategies/techniques address the NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards in Language Arts Literacy/Visual and Performing Arts and Bloom’s Taxonomy/Educational Objectives. Presenters/participants will “tell” stories about the moon using origami, kamishibai, tandem interaction, puppets, artifacts, and simple musical instruments.