2024 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Overview - September 21, 2024
- 9 - 11: Master Class with Loren Niemi at Spring Grove Elementary School (8105 Blivin St.)
- 12 - 6: Featured Storytellers - 4 tents of live storytelling performances! See details below.
master class - Loren Niemi
Creating Unforgettable Stories! - In this engaging Master Class, join the amazing Storyteller, Loren Niemi, in a hands-on story crafting experience. Niemi describes "Forty years of teaching classes and workshops has taught me that there is always a way in and through the "what" and "maybe" to your own story". If interested, you can tell your story at the Open Mic tent at the festival later in the day.
Loren Niemi has spent 45 years as a storyteller – creating, collecting, performing, and producing storytelling experiences in urban and rural settings. Whether at Fringe Festivals, poetry and story slams, working in “Post-Troubles” Northern Ireland, or performing on the Great Wall of China, Loren lives the stories he tells. He is the founder and CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) of The American School of Storytelling and the author of six books, including an award-winning collection of ghost stories and three books on crafting stories. In 2016 he received the National Storytelling Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Loren Niemi has spent 45 years as a storyteller – creating, collecting, performing, and producing storytelling experiences in urban and rural settings. Whether at Fringe Festivals, poetry and story slams, working in “Post-Troubles” Northern Ireland, or performing on the Great Wall of China, Loren lives the stories he tells. He is the founder and CSO (Chief Storytelling Officer) of The American School of Storytelling and the author of six books, including an award-winning collection of ghost stories and three books on crafting stories. In 2016 he received the National Storytelling Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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