Tejas Storytelling Association

Returning this year Fantastic National, Regional and Local Tellers Youth Tellers Workshops for artists, educators and librarians Thursday Night Ghost Tales Native American Tales Talespinner Party Cowboy Poetry and Music

The National and Regional Tellers for the 2008 Texas Storytelling Festival are; Doug Lipman, Carmen Deedy, Tim Tingle, Doc Moore, James Ford and Donna Lively. Learn More

Location: Texas Woman's University - Hubbard Hall

Festival Times
Thursday April 10th 7pm - 9 pm
Friday April 11th 9am - 11 pm
Saturday April 12th 9am - 11pm
Sunday April 13th 9am – 4 pm

GHOST TALES: Start with something shivery. Thursday night means Ghost Stories. Tales begin at 7:00pm with frights appropriate for the younger set, and get progressively more hair-raising as the evening goes on. Stay as long as you dare! Come hear haunting legends and eerie tales of the unexplained and unexplainable. This concert is FREE!

TALESPINNER DINNER AND SILENT AUCTION:
April 12th 5-7pm Join the featured tellers and all your friends for dinner before the evening concert. Relax with beer and wine and lots of great food, plus a chance to place bids on an exciting evening array of goods and services at our Silent Auction. All monies raised will go to support activities of the festival.
Cost $20.00

LONE STAR LIARS COMPETITION: Don't miss out on the first annual Lone Star Liars competition! Be it fact or fiction, we want to be fooled! Come see if you can be the biggest liar at this year's festival!! Apply now

Applications

WORKSHOPS: Whether you are a teacher, librarian, parent or full-time storyteller, we've got a workshop sure to meet your needs. The 2009 applications are ready, apply now.

MASTER CLASSES: Want to polish your story skills further? You can each year with one of our Master Classes! This two 1/2 hour class gives you and abundance of resources to help develop and learn more about your craft. You'll have fun and learn more than you imagined. Click here for more details.

TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN STORYTELLING AND STORY CIRCLES: A unique and very special feature of our festival occurs on Saturday morning with 2 hours of traditional Native American storytelling, produced by Tim Tingle.

IN-SERVICE HOURS/ STAFF DEVELOPMENT CREDIT: Earn in-service or staff development credit from our workshops and have fun in the process. Festival staff at our registration tent will facilitate this process. Forms will be provided and checked at the workshops.