FREE EVENT! - Orange County Childrens Book Festival to be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on October 3, 2010 at Orange Coast College Campus located at 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. See www.kidsBookFestival.com or call 714.838.4528. There will be Authors and Illustrators - Book Signings - Exhibitors - Entertainment - Wild Animal Arena - Literacy Resources and Events - Train Rides - Costume Book Characters - Games - Food - FUN!!!
Enjoy exciting animated and participatory storytelling and poetry for children from the following storytellers on the Storytelling Stage:
Victoria Burnett – performs folktales, tall tales, cultural stories and whoppers with song and movement
Carolyn Cardamis and Nancy Dawson - bring stories alive with music and lively storytelling
Patti Christensen and James Nelson-Lucas – these storytellers and authors bring characters to life in animated storytelling
Robert L. Forbes - a mischievous poet performing readings from this book “Beastly Feasts”
Scott Langtreau - author and illustrator brings his book "Sofa Boy" alive
Adrienne McMillan - an interactive, lively and animated storyteller with participatory tales
Linda King Pruitt and Bob Pruitt - a musical duo spinning fun into folk and fairy tales
Poli Rizco - brings adventures in art and story with her animated telling
Debra Weller - uses folksongs and characterization for a lively telling of participatory folktales
David Whiting and Diana Spirithawk - perform stories using whimsical voice along with animated gestures.
The Muckenthaler in Fullerton continues to host a free storytelling concert series held the first Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. The Muckenthaler is located at 1201 W. Malvern Avenue, Fullerton 92833 - Website www.themuck.org for further information.
Join the fiesta celebrating the signing of California's first Constitution. Sunday, November 14, 2010 at Heritage Museum of Orange County, 3101 West Harvard St., Santa Ana 92704, Telephone 714.540.0404. As the living history character, Maria Josefa Grijalva Yorba, Adrienne Chavez McMillan will tell her story and that of California's historical characters Jose Antonio Yorba I as well as her son, Bernardo Yorba.
Join Adrienne McMillan and the storytellers from the South Coast Storytellers Guild as they celebrate the Worldwide Storytelling Event "TELLABRATION" from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at the Mission Viejo Library, Saddleback Room, located at 100 Civic Center, Mission Viejo, CA 92691.