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8th Annual Storytelling Festival
Join masterful storytellers at the 8th Annual Storytelling Festival on February 8th at 2pm at the Open Space for Arts & Community. The StoryFest helps raise monies for the Vashon Wilderness Program, which provides nature immersion programs for youth ages 4-17 from Vashon and surrounding Puget Sound communities. To date, VWP has helped more than 650 children, teens and adults transform through Coyote Mentoring, an approach to deep nature connection mentoring which has been touted by award-winning author Richard Louv as "... good medicine for nature deficit disorder."
This year's family-friendly event will feature Merna Hecht, Steve Jones, Janet McAlpin, and Gloria Two-Feathers.
In addition to the stories, there will be a complimentary dessert and beverages.
Tickets cost: ADV: $40/family; $20/individual; DOOR: $45/family; $25/individual.
Merna Ann Hecht is a poet, essayist, teaching artist and nationally known storyteller. She is a recipient of the National Storytelling Network 2008 Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling. Merna founded and co-directs the Stories of Arrival Poetry Project with refugee and immigrant youth at Foster High School in Tukwila and she teaches creative writing, arts and humanities at the University of WA, Tacoma. When not in the classroom she can most often be found in her kitchen indulging her passion for canning and baking or in the garden of the small blueberry farm where she has lived with her husband Rob for nearly twenty years.
Steve Jones is honored to return to the stage on behalf of the Vashon Wilderness Program, an island treasure that has been an integral part of his family for many years. Born and raised in the rough and humble streets of suburban Boston, Steve acted around New England before heading west to study and act at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. He acted in Los Angeles before moving to Seattle and transitioning his focus to technology. Then one evening, he borrowed a bike, got on a ferry at Fauntleroy, and a few weeks later he was living on Vashon. He believes that our world abounds with possibilities, and connections exist everywhere, just as Story is everywhere. That person sitting next to you, either in that seat or in that car, has a story that would astound you.
Janet McAlpin trained for two years at the School of Jacques LeCoq (Paris, France), co-founded UMO Ensemble (1987) and has been teaching, directing and performing physical theater for over 25 years. She has created and co-directed UMO in El Dorado, Body Inheritance, Fatal Peril, and Red Tiger Tales. She enjoys creating aerial acts and clown acts with David Godsey and other artists and ensembles usually involving various pieces of odd shaped equipment or fruits & vegetables. In most other waking hours, Janet lives and dreams her creative vision into Open Space for Arts and Community on Vashon. She is grateful to be in such good company while beginning the journey of "Fail(ing) Better."
Gloria Two-Feathers, is Scottish with Native American bloodlines, and her body of work is influenced and enriched by her unique ethnic background and perspective. She was instructed by Lakota Elder, Buck Ghost Horse, for twenty years in spirituality, ritual and culture. Gloria is a gifted Storyteller and has written several original stories influenced by Native American mythology. She has told stories throughout the Puget Sound area.
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LocationOpen Space for Arts & Community (View)
18870 103rd Ave SW
Vashon, WA 98070
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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