SUNDAY MORNING STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE
FOR CHILDREN
A Magical Morning of Stories
On Sunday, November 15 from 10-11:15AM, storyteller Kate Dudding, emcees
a morning of award-winning storytellers:
George Odhiambo, Heather Forest, and Jay O'Callahan
Emcee
Kate Dudding creates entertaining, heartwarming and memorable stories about real people who made a difference. She tells at venues in Northeastern USA, including The Clearwater Festival, First Night Saratoga, and The Norman Rockwell Museum. Many of her five CDs received national awards. She won the 2010 National Storytelling Conference story slam. Kate and her producing partner Joe Doolittle have organized over 150 storytelling performances. They received the 2015 Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award.
George Odhiambo (Odhiambo means evening- the time he was born) goes by the stage name of Fishmonger Stories, and has roots in Kenya with branches in Detroit, Michigan. George grew up on an island so loves to eat all kinds of freshwater fish, and play real football (soccer) - all day and night if time permits. An ICU nurse, George tells African stories, riddles and proverbs to children and adults in hospitals to distract them from their pain. Since Coronavirus, he started a YouTube channel to be able to reach more kids all over the world with a positive message.
Heather Forest is a modern-day bard. Her storytelling performances are a fusion of poetry, prose, original melody, and the sung and spoken word. Featured in major storytelling festivals nationally and around the globe, Heather Forest brings elegance, wit, and the poet’s touch to folktales, epics and wisdom tales from the treasury of world folklore. A pioneer in the American storytelling revival, she has been featured ten times at the National Storytelling Festival and many other venues, and is a recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award presented by the National Storytelling Network.
Acclaimed storyteller, Jay O'Callahan, takes a bare stage and single-handedly transforms it into a dynamic and sensitive world filled with compelling characters. The National Endowment of the Arts awarded him a fellowship for solo performance excellence. Jay has received awards for his performances, books, audiotapes and videos from the National Education Film Festival, Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, Parents' Choice, New England Theater Conference and UNESCO, to name a few. He also is a regular contributor to National Public Radio and leads creativity workshops for corporations and other interested groups.