Members are welcome to add your programs, classes, etc. to this space. Send name, date, time, place and e-mail or telephone number for more information to cneile@fau.edu.

Wednesday, September 14
Sleeping with the Enemy: Stories of Survival from Domestic Abuse
FAU Boca Campus University Center,  Grand Palm Room
7–9:00 p.m.
Admission is free of charge
For information, call 561-297-0042 or e-mail cneile@fau.edu

Wednesday, September 28
Nationally acclaimed storyteller Carmen Deedy performs moving and amusing stories of her Cuban-American heritage
FAU Boca Raton Campus 
Social Sciences Breezeway (underneath SO building)
4–5:15 p.m.
Admission is free of charge
For information, call 561-297-0042 or e-mail cneile@fau.edu

Thursday, September 29
Sharing Our Own Stories
Master Class with nationally acclaimed storyteller Carmen Deedy
Southwest County Regional Library, Boca Raton
20701 95th Avenue South
Between Lyons Road and State Road 441 on Glades Road
Admission is free. To register, call 561-482-4554

Friday, October 7-Sunday, October 9
National Storytelling Festival
Jonesborough, Tennessee
For information, visit www.storytellingcenter.net

Sunday, October 23
VOX: A Storytelling Slam Event (premiere of a monthly series)
Dada  Restaurant
52 N. Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach
561-330-3232
For information about participating, e-mail cneile@fau.edu or call 561-297-0042. Click for more information on VOX.

Thursday, November 3
Kuniko Yamamoto, Japanese storyteller, origamist, musician and more
FAU Boca Raton Campus 
Social Sciences Breezeway (underneath SO building)
9–10:15 a.m.
Admission is free of charge
For information, call 561-297-0042 or e-mail cneile@fau.edu

SPECIAL SERIES
ACultural Feast: A Deliciously Different Performance Event
Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park in Boca Raton is proud to present this one-of-a-kind luncheon theater series, co-sponsored by the South Florida Storytelling Project at Florida Atlantic University and fine area restaurants.  A buffet style lunch will be served in the Maple Room, where patrons will sample delicious cuisine from each culture in the series. Performance will follow in the Willow Theatre. Sugar Sand Park is located on Military Trail, between Palmetto Park Road and Camino Real. For information, call 347-3948.

Ticket price includes lunch and performance
Tickets are $22
Series package $18

The series features the following programs:

Teriyaki Tales: Featuring Kuniko Yamamoto
Saturday, November 5
Kuniko Yamamoto infuses dramatic storytelling with myths and fables from ancient and modern Japan, spiced with social revelations and ideas that entertain and amuse. Traditional Japanese music, handcrafted masks, stylized pantomime and a touch of magic make Kuniko’s performances truly unforgettable.

Kuniko is a native of Japan, where she studied dance and music at the renowned Konishi School of ballet. She has received national exposure performing Japanese Storytelling at the Silk Road International Exposition and on Kansai National TV. She then traveled to the United States to tour with the Faulkner Light Theater. She is often hired by Disney to entertain in the Japanese Pavilion at Epcot.

Lunch catered by Kansai Japanese Restaurant
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Performance

Bubbes & Bialys: Featuring Roslyn Bresnick-Perry
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Roslyn‘s personal and family stories paint a poignant and delightful portrait of both her early life in a European Jewish village, or shtetl, that remained much the same for a millennium, and her adult years as a New York bubbe  (grandmother). She brings alive the tastes, sights, sounds, smells and feelings of a community buffeted by history and buoyed by love and, above all, the power of the imagination.

Roslyn Bresnick-Perry, may have been born in a shtetl in Eastern Europe, but she is definitely a native New Yorker. She is well known for telling it as it “is,” and has received acclaim as a nationally admired storyteller, workshop leader, award winning recording artist, and writer.  Her tales are oral history at its most poignant and humorous. She sees the world with the eyes of a Jewish grandmother who is well versed in the heritage, folklore, and wisdom of her people. She reassures her audiences that though the stories are her own, they will find that they share a commonality no matter who they are.

Lunch catered by Toojay’s Deli
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Performance

Cuba con Carne: Featuring Lucia Gonzalez
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Award-winning author, storyteller and librarian Lucia Gonzalez shares age-old tales from her Cuban heritage with wit, warmth and wonder. Raised on the oral tradition of folktales and family sagas, she brings to her shows her own special blend of zesty Caribbean flavor and sparkling Latin energy. This is one performer who always leaves all her audiences wanting “mas”! (more).

Lucia Gonzalez was born in 1957 in Havana, Cuba, and grew up in Cuba and Miami. She has always been fascinated by the folktales of other countries, and has lived in Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. In 1994 she published “The Bossy Gallito”, which was a Pura Belpre Award Honor Book and included on the Aesop Accolade list by the Children's Folklore Section in the American Folklore Society. Her 1998 book, “Senor Cat's Romance and Other Favorite Stories from Latin America”, was named an Americas Award Commended Title. Both books were illustrated by acclaimed artist Lulu Delacre.

Lunch catered by Caribbean Grill
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Performance

ONGOING
Mondays
11 a.m.
StoryShare Reminiscence Group
Mae Volen Senior Center
For information, call 561-395-8920

Broward Storytelling Guild. Call Debbie Helminger at 954-966-6084.

Miami Storytelling Guild: Call Helen Anspaugh at 305-251-0033.

Palm Beach County Storytelling Guild Call Mij Byram at 561-347-8951 or e-mail mijbyram@aol.com.

TattleTales Storytelling Guild. E-mail Diane Dumbaugh  at dmdumbaugh@bellsouth.net.

Questions or Comments: cneile@fau.edu