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Join us Saturday, November 15, 2003, at beautiful Lake Eola Park, for the second annual Orlando StoryFest – a joint presentation by Project Imagination and the City of Orlando – where fun, funny and mesmerizing professional storytellers will capture your imagination and delight all ages!
Ticket gate opens at 9:00 a.m. Come early to get a good seat!
This year’s festival will feature three continuous storytelling venues where four of the nation’s top storytellers, along with two of Florida’s finest will present:
- Donald Davis - internationally known
- Bill Harley - Grammy Nominee and frequent contributer to “All Things Considered”
- Carol Birch - Connecticut Storyteller
- Beth Horner - Mid-West Storyteller
- Pat Nease - Florida Storyteller
- Ajamu Mutima - Florida Storyteller
- Project Imagination storytelling troupe
Other entertainment around the park will include:
- Student storytellers from the Project Imagination Literacy Enrichment program
- The City of Orlando Puppet Troupe
- Sak Theatre’s Instant Karma
- Clown Alley
- Storytelling groups from around Central Florida
- Spellbinders
- Evening Ghost Story Concert
- Exhibitors from arts and family oriented organizations
- Storytelling by Orange County Public Library Tellers
For a detailed performance schedule, please download this pdf.
Seating at some of the venues is on the ground, so you might want to bring a beach towels or folding chairs.
If you'd like to volunteer to help us at The Orlando StoryFest, please contact us!
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Tickets
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| Tickets will be for sale at the gate starting at 9:00 a.m., Saturday, November 15, 2003. |
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Adult: $15 |
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Child: $10 |
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Family of 4: $35 |
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Ghost Stories at Night - Additional $5
The stories will be appropriate for the whole family early in the evening, but the later hours will bring scarier tales!
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| If you paid in advance and did not receive your tickets by mail, please pick up your tickets at Will Call, the day of the event. Be sure to bring your receipt with you! |
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Proceeds from the Orlando StoryFest will benefit Project Imagination, Inc., a nonprofit literacy enrichment program.
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 About Project Imagination
Project Imagination is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing literacy enrichment to the school districts of Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia counties. We offer storytelling performances and workshops by professional storytellers, designed to enhance the reading, writing and communication skills of elementary school students. Our organization is supported through grants, donations, and revenue from the Orlando StoryFest.
Both Project Imagination and the Orlando StoryFest are the brainchildren of professional storyteller and former Florida Storytelling Association president Mitchell O'Rear. He formed Project Imagination in March 2002 with the intent to offer professional storytelling workshops and performances, free of charge, to schools in Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties.
"There is an old saying, 'You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink,' and I think that really applies to literacy," says Mr. O'Rear. "We can teach kids to read all day long, but if we don't instill in them a passion for reading, all the technique in the world won't help. Project Imagination is like a cool drink of water in a barren desert."
Here are some fast facts about storytelling and Project Imagination:
- Project Imagination is one of the few professional storytelling troupes in the country.
- The Project Imagination storytelling troupe members are Mitchell O'Rear (founder and president), Terry Deer, Ann Mancebo, Robin Schulte, Suzie Shaeffer, and Carrie Jean Wharton.
- We present storytelling in the truest form of the oral tradition. True storytelling is a folk art, not theatre.
- While many theatre troupes do act out stories as if they were plays, they don’t model the traditional folk art of storytelling.
- Storytelling is not story reading as many libraries provide.
- Storytelling is different from puppetry arts as well (though some puppetry may be utilized).
- Storytelling is the oldest form of communication: long before there were books, TV, movies, cell phones, computers, DVD’s and CD’s, there was storytelling.
- It is the oldest form of entertainment; long before the first play was written, before the first opera was performed, before the first music concert was played, there was storytelling.
- At the heart of it all, storytelling is the very essence of how language was developed.
Mission Statement
By presenting the ancient art of storytelling in theatrical programs and storytelling festivals, Project Imagination fosters creativity, encourages the art of writing, instills the love of literature, and promotes communication between an intergenerational, multi-cultural community audience. Project Imagination provides an opportunity, through hands-on workshops, to train children and adults in the art of storytelling, therefore nurturing the preservation of the art form.
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Contact Project Imagination
For more information about Project Imagination programs or the Orlando StoryFest:
E-mail: info@projectimagination.org
Phone: 407-514-4885 (ext. 246) or 407-463-4079
Mail: P.O. Box 547351, Orlando, FL 32854-7351
Project Imagination: Sowing the seeds of creativity today; growing the readers, writers and communicators of tomorrow!
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