Please join us for the

2nd Annual

World Storytelling Celebration

Dec. 1, 2007

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Food sales on Saturday includes all you can eat Oriental and Mexican food.
Adults $5, children 9 years old and younger $4. The buffet is open 11:30-2:30.

Click here for Schedule for Storytelling (Excel doc).

ARTISTIC MISSION

St. Martin's seeks to develop and nurture a family-oriented storytelling event which builds community through celebrating our own culture and the many great cultures of the world through oral and digital stories. All stories included in the celebration should fit within this mission statement.

Stories include folktales, myths, legends, fairy tales, historical tales, bilingual tales, stories of spirituality and healing, tall tales and biographical tales from each continent of the world.

Click here for the 2007 entry form.

PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLERS

Rob Cleveland
Rob Cleveland is a jack of many trades and a master of many as well. He is a master storyteller, a comedian, an actor and a teacher. Currently, he is working on developing and distributing new animated stories and illustrated children books with a number of authors.

In addition, Rob is storyteller-in-residence at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta. His talent in storytelling landed him at Emory University where he leads workshops for law students, teaching them how to tell a good story. As an actor, Rob has appeared in more than 50 professional stage productions around the country. Most recently, he completed his fourth season with the Georgia Shakespeare Festival.

On film, he has been seen in "That Darn Cat" and "Drumline." As a stand-up comedian, Rob has headlined all over the country in many different comedy clubs, including Dangerfield's in NYC and The Improv in NYC and Los Angeles.

Paul McClain
Paul McClain received his BA in theatre from Berry College in Rome, Ga.  He then went on to receive his Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from the University of Florida.  During his MFA program he was able to perform classical theatre in Scotland's annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in the artistic festivals that surrounded the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.  

 After returning to Georgia and working as an assistant to the technical director at Horizon Theatre Company in Atlanta he was offered his current position of Theatre Program Director at Northview High School in Duluth.  Despite the very full schedule public education demands he still manages to perform locally.  In the summer of 2006 he toured the state as the Frog Prince.

Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy was born and grew up in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland.  Although everyone in Ireland speaks the English language today, there is an older Irish language - sometimes called Gaelic - that every Irish child learns at school.  Ireland has a long tradition of story-telling, with rich tales full of magical deeds, great heroes, and terrible villains.  Paul will share some of the stories he learned when growing up in Ireland, with a few old Irish words for you to learn, and plenty of colorful characters mixed in.

 

Jennie Paulsen, Skeeter Lee, Andrew Schwartz, Christina Johnson, Cristian Eden, Molly O'Brien, Mimi Deupree, Linda Hynes, Dave Rowswell, Suzanne Ford, Ellen Kufel, Edith Woodling, Patti Pitoscia, Dawn Stark, Tiffany Green, Gerardo Bartholomai, Sue Astley