Festival offers stories from three continents.Byline: The Register-Guard Storytellers from Brazil, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Ireland will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Very Little Theatre, 2350 Hilyard St. For the featured storytellers, who have been visiting local schools this week, the program is the concluding event of the 15th annual Multi-Cultural Storytelling Festival, produced and directed by Robert Rubin- stein. The storytellers are Antonio Rocha, a native Brazilian now living in Maine; Vared Hankin, who has performed extensively in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; and Batt Burns of Kerry, Ireland. Born in Brazil but now living in Maine, Rocha has performed as a storyteller and mime at the Kennedy Center, the National Storytelling Festival The National Storytelling Festival is held every October in Jonesborough, Tennessee. The storytelling festival was started by a high school journalism teacher in 1973. It has grown over the years to become a major festival in the United States with over 10,000 in attendance. , the Singapore Festival of the Arts
The Festival of the Arts, or simply Festival is a three day arts festival in Grand Rapids held on the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of June. and the Dunya Festival in the Netherlands. Hankin has performed in several famed New York venues, including the 92nd Street Y and the Jewish Museum, as well as at the International Fringe Festival and in the Obie Award-winning play, "Performance Space 122." Hankin has been commissioned by the Jewish Women's Archive to create performance pieces about "Women of Valor valor a rodenticide no longer marketed because of toxicity in horses causing dehydration, abdominal pain, hindlimb weakness, inappetence, fishy smell in urine. Called also N-3-pyridyl methyl N1-p-nitrophenyl urea. ." Burns has told his Irish tales at the National Storytelling Festival, the Corn Island Festival in Kentucky, the Timpanogos Festival in Utah, in New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and at Harvard, Northwestern and Notre Dame universi- ties. The storytelling event is recommended for ages 10 and older. Admission is $8, or $20 for a family of four. |
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