STORYTELLING WITH BILL GORDH
Folktales from Around the World
Bill Gordh returns to Sugar Hill with banjo in hand to offer another program of interactive folktales from around the world.
The Hungry Cat. In this Norwegian folktale, a little cat begins her day with a bowl of milk, but she is still hungry. So she goes out looking for more food. It’s quite an adventure. A cumulative tale.
The Stonecutter (Japan). This story describes the hard work of a stonecutter who one day wishes he was the sun and his wish comes true. This story has been designed with movements that the children listeners can join to help tell the story.
Tree with a Door in It (Original). A Story/Game Song that gets the children moving. This has become a favorite!
Turtle and the Thundergod. This tale from the Caribbean tells of an island where the animals play all morning, take a rain shower in the afternoon and then play some more. Then the rain stops. What can they do?
Per’s Pants (A Swedish Drawing Story). The drawing of a story becomes a pair of pants.
Spider and the Stone with a Beard (West Africa). A very funny story about the trickster spider playing tricks on all the animals until he meets Rabbit who is even trickier than Spider.
Sunday, April 18th, 2021
1:00pm to 1:45pm
About The Storyteller
Bill Gordh is an award winning storyteller, author, educator, songwriter and banjoist. His latest book Making Room for Everyone; More Stories for Building a Children Chapel is filled with folktales from around the world and arrived August, 2020. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, at the Clearwater Festival, The Museum of Natural History, the Tribeca Film Festival Family Day, Celebrate Brooklyn, the Byzantine Fresco Museum (Houston, TX), the Gerald Ford Amphitheater (Vail, CO) and for the last 3 years of the Clinton administration Bill was a featured storyteller at the White House Easter Egg Roll.