Storytelling Festival 2007 on April 24


The Storytelling Festival is a a free event for Vance County’s fourth grade and fourth-grade-level students during the day, and a free Family Festival in the evening.

It will be held on Tuesday, April 24, in the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library.

Part I, the Fourth-Grade Festival, is held at different sites around the library during school-day hours. Participating schools bus their fourth-graders to the Festival for an hour of educational, inspiring tales from some of the best storytellers in NC (and beyond).

Sites for the event in the library include the Storytime Kiva, the Meeting Room, the Terrace, and the Children’s Reading Area.

Session times are 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., and 1:00 p.m.

Participating Schools with fourth grade or fourth grade level-students include: Aycock Elementary, Carver Elementary, Central Homeschool Support, Clark Street Elementary, Dabney Elementary, E. M. Rollins Elementary, E. O. Young Elementary, Eaton Johnson Middle School, Kerr Vance Academy, L. B. Yancey Elementary, New Hope Elementary, Northern Vance High School, Pinkston Street Elementary, Southern Vance High School, Vance Charter School, and Zeb Vance Elementary.

Part II, the Family Festival, welcomes the featured storytellers from the day festival to provide an evening’s entertainment from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. for Vance County’s families in Perry Library’s Meeting Room. Children of all ages are welcome; an age guideline would be ages 5 and up. (For safety, no kids without adults please!) Signup for Family Festival 2007 is available by phone at 252.438.3316 x226 or by coming to the Children’s Information Desk at Perry Library.

Featured Storytellers:

Cynthia Moore Brown
Cynthia Moore Brown

Wright Clarkson
Wright Clarkson the Storyguy

Terry Rollins
Terry Rollins

Willa Brigham
Willa Brigham

Each Featured Teller will be performing at both Parts I and UU of the Festival and are well known throughout North Carolina, and often beyond. This is the first year folkteller Cynthia Moore Brown joins us. Wright Clarkson the Storyguy has been an energetic part of past Summer Reading programs at Perry Library. Terry Rollins brings wonderful tales from around the world and was featured at Festival 2003. Willa Brigham was featured at Festival 2002 and recently won an Emmy award for her children’s television program Smart Start Kids. These featured tellers will be joined by eight regional tellers, who will only tell at Part I.

Regional Tellers are: Markey Duckworth, Alan Hoal, Ron Jones, Ray Mendenhall, Sylvia Payne, Dasie Roberts, Charles Shelton, Henry Vogel.

This exciting and important event is supported by the Vance County Arts Council with funds from the Grassroots Program of the NC Arts Council, a state agency. Other supporters include the Friends of the Perry Library, especially volunteers Marion Perry, Bonnie Snyder, Susan Adcock, Betsy Seifert, Nell Wiggins, June Irwin, and Shirley Young.