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9th Annual Storytelling Festival - Fundraiser & Dessert Auction
Join masterful storytellers at the 9th Annual Storytelling Festival on January 31st at 1:30pm 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 800 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 Roger Fernandes, Bonny Moss, and Ted Packard.
In addition to the stories, there will be a Dessert Auction, complimentary food and beverages, nature crafts, a special Sensory Forest, and more. Nature-inspired costumes are encouraged!
Tickets cost: ADV: $40/family; $20/individual; DOOR: $45/family; $25/individual.
Roger Fernandes (Kawasa) is a member of Lower Elwha Band of the S'Klallam Indians from the Port Angeles area of the state of Washington. He is a storyteller, artist, and distinguished recipient of a folk life award from the Washington Arts Commission for his work in teaching about Coast Salish art.
A Coast Salish storyteller, Roger brings old stories alive again, offering their teachings to today's children and adults, with a traditional approach allowing each group to find interpretations and knowledge at their own level. Roger believes that art, music and stories reflect the culture, and the culture reflects the environment. He offers stories that lead to a spiritual and emotional understanding of how to live in the world - in balance with family, community, and nature.
As a tribal historian, Roger presents slides, artifacts, and artwork of the Coast Salish people, whose art, basketry, and carvings are quite different from the stereotypical northwest coastal Indian art such as totem poles, masks and button blankets.
Roger is a practicing artist himself, and one of the foremost experts of S'Klallam and Salish art. He is involved in art organizations and initiatives by and for Native American artists. He has recorded a CD "Teachings of the First People" that shares several of the stories he tells in his performances.
More information about Roger can be found at Turtle Island Storytellers.
Bonny Moss has been telling tales and spinning yarns in word and movement since she was just a wee one. She is a bit of a story nerd, in fact, and thinks of most of her life as a tale, a thread woven into the tapestry of the great Story of which we are all part. She shared her formative years with Islewilde and spent her youth organizing and performing in it. Having enjoyed the stages of Vashon in several productions of various kinds over the years, and then run off to Santa Fe to become a belly dancer, she is glad to be back in the rainy lands and honored to have been an apprentice in VWP's Nourishing Nature program for two years, and a parent of a super happy Fire Tender for three years ... and counting.
Ted Packard has been telling stories since he could talk; some of them have even been true. When he moved to Washington in 2011 to become a self-sufficient, nature-smart, outdoors superhero, he left behind a life on stage as a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and storyteller. After rooting in the wet, green, glory of this land, he learned that self-sufficiency is best found in community, and that mentoring kids and teens into adults that are nature-connected and self-aware was his true calling. A recovering Almost-History-Teacher, Ted practices storytelling as a tool in mentoring and as an art in of itself. When he's not working with Vashon Wilderness Program or Quiet Heart Wilderness School, he runs a free after-school program on Vashon.
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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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