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East
Bay Regional Park District
Featuring hiking, fishing, picnicking, swimming, recreation, and hundreds of educational and interpretive events in 65 parks and 95,000 acres in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. The Festival has been hosted by the East Bay Regional Parks District since 1991, reflecting the District's commitment to diverse programming highlighting the cultural and natural resources of the Bay Area.
Storytelling
Association of California (SAC)
Supporting storytelling as a living art form throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. The SAC Web site includes an online storytelling calendar for Northern California.
Bay Area Storytelling Festival Featured Tellers
from Festivals past and present
- Sheila Kay
Adams - Southern Appalachian storyteller and musician.
- Charlotte Blake
Alston - Storyteller and singer of the African and African-American oral tradition.
- Patrick
Ball - Celtic harper and storyteller.
- Carol
Birch - storyteller, producer, recording artist.
- Judith
Black - storyteller, actress, writer.
- Milbre
Burch - author, theatre artist, and storyteller
- Derek
Burrows - tales from the Bahamas, Africa, and Medieval Europe
- Len
Cabral - Cape Verdean, African, Caribbean and original tales.
- Willy
Claflin - music and Mother Moose tales
- Charlie
Chin - storyteller, author, and musician
- Gladys Coggswell
- storyteller, designated a master folk artist in Missouri
- Donald Davis
- popular storyteller and author from North Carolina
- Dayton Edmonds - Native American storyteller
- Doug
Elliot - naturalist, herbalist, and storyteller.
- Elizabeth
Ellis - teller of Appalachian, Texas, and personal tales
- Eth-Noh-Tec - Myth, movement, and music from Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo and Nancy Wang bring Asian stories to life.
- Heather
Forest - storytelling minstrel
- Robert Greygrass - Native American actor and storyteller.
- Bill
Harley - singer, songwriter, storyteller, playwright.
- Steven
Henegar - Truth and Lies for all occasions.
- Vi
Hilbert - Seattle Times profile of this tribal elder and Lushootseed scholar.
- David
Holt - a storyteller who combines music and story.
- Beth
Horner - traditional and contemporary stories, with music
- Andy Offutt Irwin - comedic troubadour
- Joel
ben Izzy - travelling storyteller.
- Kevin
Kling - Minnesota humorist.
- Susan
Klein - New England raconteur, author, recording artist.
- Baba Jamal
Koram - practitioner and teacher of African American Spoken Word Traditions
- Bil Lepp - Championship liar
- Syd
Lieberman - award winning teacher, author, and storyteller.
- Angela Lloyd - Musical storyteller
- Olga
Loya - folk tales, myths, and legends in Spanish and English
- Awele
Makeba - Teller of All Tales - Have I Got a Story for You!
- Jim
May - McHenry County's (Illinois) most famous teller.
- Alice
McGill - storyteller, educator, actress.
- Lynn
Moroney - storyteller specializing in Native American Sky Lore.
- Johnny
Moses - storyteller, oral historian, and traditional healer.
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Motoko - Award-winning Japanese storytelling.
- Bobby
Norfolk - Emmy-award winning story performer.
- Jay
O'Callahan - storyteller, author, musician, juggler.
- Michael Parent - where imagination meets the spoken word.
- Antonio Rocha - Actor, mime, storyteller
- Katy
Rydell - writer, folklorist, and storyteller.
- Antonio
Sacre - bilingual storyteller, actor, performance artist.
- Dovie
Thomason - Lakota/Kiowa Apache storyteller
- Tim
Tingle - Choctaw storyteller
- Kathryn Windham Tucker - Winner of a National Storytelling Network Lifetime Achievement Award
- Liz
Weir - storyteller from County Antrim, Ireland.
- Kuniko
Yamamoto - magical mask, music, and mime of Japan.
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