TAMPA-HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
Saturday, April 24, 2010  •  Hillsborough High School  •  Tampa, FL
2007 Festival
2007 FEST
Festival News
How to Participate
Support the Festival
Teaching Storytelling
Workshops
Sponsors
Photo Gallery
Festival Alumni
About the Festival
CONTACT US

Do you have a question we haven't answered? Need more information?

Contact us at: 
Storytelling Festival
c/o City of Tampa Parks & Recreation
1420 North Tampa Street
Tampa, FL 33602
info@tampastory.org
(813) 931-2106.

2010 FEATURED TELLERS: ETH-NOH-TEC

Teaching Storytelling Coaching Manual Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
Thanks to a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Junior League of Tampa, Inc., storytelling coaching manuals are available. All principals, assistant principals, and media specialists in Hillsborough County public and private elementary, middle and high schools should have received a manual. If you cannot locate your school's copy (it's white with a purple castle on the front) or you are not affiliated with a Hillsborough County public or private school, look on this website for "Coaching Manual" or call Priscilla Lakus at (813) 273-3648 or Jody Wren at (813) 931-2106 for a free copy—or

Download and print a copy now!

If you call to request a copy, please note that there is a nominal charge of $5.00 per manual for anyone outside the Hillsborough County area. 

Teaching Storytelling Manual Highlights Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

Virginia Rivers, Victoria Gregor, and Amy Crane spent a year revising, updating, and expanding the Committee's manual for teaching storytelling. This manual guides novice tellers step by step through the process of turning shy and awkward children into Festival Quality Storytellers who can confidently stand in front of an audience and share a story. Manual highlights include:   Continued »

Teaching Storytelling Spotlight Your Festival Quality Storytellers Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

Let your Festival Quality Storytellers know you are proud of them and give them opportunities to continue to polish their stories before they appear at the Festival. A few suggestions (we're sure you can think of more):

  • Feature them telling their stories on your school's morning show.

  • List their names on the marquee outside the school.

  • List their names in the school or PTA newsletter (and make sure you include information on the Festival so everyone can be there to cheer them on!).

  • Let students tell their stories to other classes.

  • Take a group to tell at a preschool or nursing home.

  • Feature them in a school mini-festival.

 
Teaching Storytelling So Everybody's Learned a Story ... Now What? Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

Stage a Mini-Festival! Invite parents or other classes to your Evaluation session. This showcases for the parents what the class has been working on for the past few months. It will then provide you with an opportunity to encourage parents of children who were evaluated to be Festival Quality to continue to work with their children to polish their stories until the county-wide Festival.

  Continued »

 

"The Opening Ceremonies were so impressive in spite of the early hour. My favorite part was watching the children glow in pride at what they had accomplished after their story was told. What a terrific cultural contribution by the youth and adult community of Tampa."

Carole Nenninger
Festival Attendee

hourglass
Map to the Festival
In Memory of Virginia Rivers