BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Storytellers will offer their tales at festival Three international storytellers with many tales to tell will highlight the 16th annual Multicultural Storytelling Festival A storytelling festival is often an annual event that features local, regional and/or nationally known oral storytellers. Each storyteller will have a scheduled amount of time(s) to share a story (or stories) with an audience. with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Very Little Theatre. Leeny Del Seamonds, Madafo and Tim Tingle also have many activities around town in schools and at the library leading up to this main event. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a news release, the festival and concert are meant as a positive way to bring cultural awareness and appreciation of others to the community. Del Seamonds is an accomplished mime, actor and singer in addition to being a storyteller. She shares stories from her Cuban heritage. Tim Tingle uses his flute and voice to relate stories of Choctaw culture. He has collected and told tales of humor, history and contemporary life. Madafo is a musician, historian, poet and teacher who tells stories rooted in his African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. past, like Brer Rabbit Brer Rabbit clever trickster. [Children’s Lit.: Uncle Remus] See : Mischievousness stories. The show is $10. Forever Wild to feature long-distance walker Several local environmental groups will present Forever Wild 2006 with "Walkin' Jim" Stoltz today at 7:30 p.m. at 180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall Campbell Hall can refer to:
Forever Wild 2006 is a multimedia celebration of America's wilderness featuring Stoltz, a folksinger folk·sing·er or folk sing·er n. A singer of folksongs. folk singing n. , photographer and backcountry back·coun·try n. A sparsely inhabited rural region. traveler. To date, Stoltz has walked more than 26,000 miles through the wild country of North America and Mexico. He is celebrating his 20th year of touring across America. The show combines photos taken along Stoltz's walks with live music and poetry. The event is hosted locally by the Native Forest Council, Cascadia Wildlands Project, and other conservation groups. Admission free. Stoltz also will give a free presentation at 7 p.m. Saturday, Earth Day, at The Barn in Bandon. - Register-Guard reports |
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