Story Squad gave an introductory storytelling workshop to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library (CMPL) staff this week.  We had 20 attendees from youth and adult services who spent the afternoon exploring how to find, learn, and perform folktales from around the world. We discussed performance anxiety, audience participation, the use of props, and various ways of visualizing stories so that they maintain an improvisational quality, even after multiple retellings.  What a great group of storytellers work at CMPL!  Thanks for having us down to be part of this.

Once again, on November 19th, 2023 from 6:00pm – 7:0pm, Amy Sayle and the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center have hosted storytellers from the School of Information and Library Science’s Story Squad to share celestial folktales from around the world under the brilliant night-time sky as projected in the Planetarium’s full-dome theater. Five storytellers shared tales from China, native North America (Paiute), Russia (Siberia), Polynesia (Tonga), and North America (Appalachia). Attendees were treated to stories about the Milky Way, the moon, the North Star, and Orion.  Now when they get outside the lights of Chapel Hill and look up at the stars, we hope they will remember the stories and see the constellations with new eyes!