Attention School Media Specialists, Teachers, Youth Leaders, and Parents. Hillsborough County is gearing up for its Thirtieth Annual Storytelling Festival!

The culminating festival will be held April 24th, 2010, from 9 am—4 pm. This year the festival will be returning to its traditional Tampa home, Hillsborough High School. Renovations are complete and the castle-like qualities of the school are more beautiful than ever. Hillsborough High is located at 5000 N Central Ave. in Tampa (See a Map.) The festival is FREE and open to the public.

In addition to this year's Featured Storyteller Eth-Noh-Tec, the festival also presents hundreds of school-aged Festival Quality Storytellers, regional storytellers of all ages, balladeers, puppets, storybook characters, and much much more!

ETH-NOH-TEC is kinetic story theater that is at once precision choreography, lyrical word-weaving, graceful, playful and poetic. By layering ancient Asian mythologies, folktales and Asian urban legends with Asian American sensibilities, Eth-Noh-Tec has created an exciting new blend of storytelling and physical theater.

Eth-Noh-Tec was founded in 1982 and is the combined performance chemistry of Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo and Nancy Wang.

Our mission is too build cultural bridges that celebrate our humanity, embrace our differences and create compassionate communities through the performance of Asian and Asian American stories that touch upon our universal truths.

Eth-Noh-Tec performs throughout the United States and abroad with several storytelling theater programs, workshops and residencies. Together they mix an alchemy of music, theater, dance and the spoken word to challenge the borders between theater, movement, mime and storytelling.