First, you MUST watch Kristin Pedemonti's Talent Talk for TED. MUST! MUST! and if you agree that Kristin's talk is funny, fun, touching and life affirming (how could you NOT agree?) then you must
vote for her to earn a TEDTalk spot. You MUST click on the
"vote for her" link and then rate her content and presentation in the rating area to the right of the video. In order to vote, you will need to log in with Facebook or sign up for a TED account but TEDtalks are the BEST THINGS on the Internet, so it's all good.
Second: The
Lititz Storytelling Festival happens in a couple of weeks - three actually - on September 14th and 15th. This is the very first Lititz Storytelling Festival and the line-up is truly awesome.
See??? What did I tell you? Go to www.StoryPartners.net to get the full scoop. I hope to attend on Saturday.
Third: Looking ahead a bit,
The National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro TN happens on Oct. 5 - 7th. I have only attended this event once and it was so totally amazing. I want to go back and LIVE at the Storytelling Festival except it only lasts one week. Sigh. It's like All Storytelling, All the Time, All Over the Place... You will have trouble finding lodging at this late date but try anyway. You will not be sorry.
Kristin shares her message of joy on a TED talk. Click here to see her presentation.
Thursday came and went. I blame it on my job which only happens on Thursdays and alternate Saturdays. Then, Friday was a blur. And I did not fulfill my Story Thursday commitment. I do these things sometime.
So I will remind you all that Kristin Pedemonti will be the teller at the Children's Series tomorrow, Sunday, February 19th, at 2 pm at Godfrey Daniels.
I totally enjoy Kristin's performances. Check out the Storytelling Page for some cool news about other local tellers and for a new link of the week (or two weeks. sigh.)
The organization of this blog continues. Today is Story (or Storyteller) Thursday. And on Thursdays, I will features a story, a storytelling activity or a storyteller.
Today's storyteller is
Kristin Pedemonti, an energetic, lively, big-hearted woman who is the founder of Literacy Outreach Belize. Since 2006, she has donated programs to 33,000 children in Belize and has spearheaded donations of funds and books to the more rural schools in this small Central American country.
Pedemonti's storytelling usually includes audience participation, with costumes, funny voices and even funnier faces. She is a joy to watch. She has a wonderful manner, handles outbursts from the sudience with humor and aplomb and ofter makes them part of her stories.
She's a globetrotter as well, performing all across Europe, the US and South America. In 2011 she won the coveted
National Storytelling Network International StoryBridge Oracle Award.
Check out
Kristin's website and visit her
fund-raising site to enable her to return to Belize and train more teachers and teens in storytelling and story creation skills.
Thank you Karen! You are such a funfilled human, glad to know you! And I still need to take accordian lessons from you! :)