Jiaan Powers

Jiaan ("Jan") brings her love, expertise, and passion to the world of storytelling. Delighting audiences of all ages, she tells multi-cultural folktales, literary tales, ghost stories, and snippets from down home.
Jiaan draws upon her twenty years of teaching elementary classes and two years of teaching storytelling to design programs for thematic units, holidays, and special occasions appropriate to age and audience. As a member of the education team for The Dallas Opera, Jiaan also uses her expertise in curriculum design to inform her storytelling for supporting reading and writing connections with the TEKS.

Currently Jiaan provides the following interactive and process-oriented workshops: "Storytelling and Narrative Writing" for fourth graders, "On Your Feet and Telling" for beginning storytellers of any age and "Next Steps", a follow-up workshop for peer critiquing and expanding storytelling skills.

Jiaan is a member of the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Roster, The Tejas Storytelling Association, The National Storytelling Network, The North 40 Storytellers' Guild, and The Dallas Storytelling Guild.

"I appreciate your management of the large group and your motivational strategies to get all students writing."
C. Kastrounis

"I understand that it is difficult to make high school students participate. Your audience engagement and activities made all students stand up and become involved."
J. Bush

(214) 357-7073

Email:
jiaanpowers@jiaanpowers.com

Website:
www.jiaanpowers.com