Presenting our 2022 Storytelling Festival

 
 

Friday, September 30th Sugar Hill Children’s Museum will host a virtual story hour en español. Register here.

Saturday, October 1st Join us in person at the Museum for our glorious fall storytelling festival, taking place from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Children and adults alike will be captivated and entertained with fables from around the world, spirited dance music, and art making of many kinds. Please register here.

Storytelling Schedule

September 30, 2022 (Virtual Program)

10:00 AM

Storytelling Marathon en Español

Master Storyteller Alejandra Hurtado and her team present a repertoire of short stories en español. Be ready to be amused!

October 1, 2022 - Hosted by Gregory Vanacker

Toddler Time with Rachael Harrington

Teatro SEA presents Juan Bobo’s Tale - A charming character from Puerto Rico learns to value honesty, hard work, and friendship while making the most out of his playful adventures.

Andy Irwin Offut - Come hear Andy’s noisy and heart-filled stories.

Native American Tales with Irma-Estel Laguerre & Vida M. Landron

Erin Lee Kelly and the Up Past Bedtime Band presents Musical Storytelling - Erin Lee and the Up Past Bedtime Band are ready for some seriously silly storytelling! Come celebrate autumn with original tunes and traditional tales that will have you hoppin’ way past - at the very least - naptime.

Teatro SEA presents The Colors of Frida | Los colores de Frida - In partnership with Teatro SEA we celebrate Frida Kahlo with a one-woman show.

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

11:30 AM - 12:15PM

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

 

Meet the Storytellers

  • Alejandra is a Chilean actress, director, cultural manager, and founder of the Mustakis Foundation's Storytelling School in Santiago, Chile with which she coordinates projects that bring the art of telling stories to non-conventional spaces.

  • Irma was born in Puerto Rico, raised in New York City and spent much of her youth in the Bronx. She identifies as Aztec, Taíno. She is an accomplished performer and actress with extensive stage, TV, film, opera, theater and musical theater credits. She currently serves as Director of The Children’s Cultural center of Native America, which teaches school-age children to dispel Native American stereotypes and enhances the NYC public schools Native American curriculum. Currently she appears in The Get Down, New Amsterdam, When They See Us, For Life, The Undoing and Ray Donovan, the last three of which will be seen in the fall.

  • Andy Offutt Irwin is equal parts mischievous schoolboy and the Marx Brothers, peppered with a touch of the Southern balladeer. He has been a Featured Teller at the National Storytelling Festival ten times and is a perennial favorite at the International Storytelling Center’s Teller-in-Residence Series. A storyteller, theatre director, singer-songwriter, and Shakespearean actor, Andy was Artist-in-Residence at Emory University’s Oxford College from 1991 to 2007.  He has performed at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York, The Library of Congress, Walt Disney World, and a whole mess of theatres, colleges, and festivals all over the United States 

    Andy lives in Covington, Georgia. He thinks he is funny.

    https://andyirwin.com/

  • Established in 1985, SEA (Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.), is the premiere Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization and Latino Children’s Theatre in the United States. SEA has created and produced a combination of educational theatre productions and art workshops/programs specifically designed to examine, challenge and create possible solutions for current educational, social and community issues. Its internationally celebrated programs include school, outdoor, community and main stage performances, workshops and residencies, among others, reaching over 75,000 children and young adults every year. The organization, established by Dr. Manuel A. Morán, currently has offices in San Juan, New York, and Florida. Teatro SEA has its performance space at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

    https://teatrosea.org/

  • Erin Lee Kelly is a New York City storyteller and songwriter whose songs, written for and with kids, have earned her national attention as one of the freshest, funniest, and insightful performers for families.

  • Powhatan, Taino, Afro American.  Program manager and fecilator for Children’s Cultural Center of Native America.  Graduate of F.H.Laguardia Performing Arts H.S.  BA degree form Lehman College with a major in History.  Performed at the New Nuyorican Cafe as spoken word artist, The Bowery and the Painted Bride in Philadelphia.  Vida feciltates children’s program thru out the trip-state area. She is an  Indigenous make-up Artist who has been commissioned to do face painting at many schools, community center /organizations and Pow Wows.

    https://www.cccona.org/