Telling Moments Storytelling Theater

Telling Moments Storytelling Theater Presents

Heather Forest
Heather Forest

 

Performance Location:
Seekers Church
276 Carroll Street N.W.
Washington D.C. 20012
$15 adult
$13 students and seniors

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301-838-9614

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Email:
telmoment@verizon.net

"Tales of Farmers & Fair Queens"
By Award-Winning Storyteller Heather Forest

on Saturday, May 16th, 2013 7:30 p.m.

Tales of Farmers and Fairy Queens offers a look at the powerful forces of the natural world through the lens of farming and folklore.


About the Artist
Heather Forest is a storyteller, recording artist, author, and
farmer. For the past thirty five years, she has toured her performance repertoire of World Folktales to theatres, schools, conferences and storytelling festivals throughout the United States and abroad. Her many performance credits include The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., The National Storytelling Festival, TN, Tales of Graz Festival, Graz, Austria, the Sidmouth International
Folk Festival, England, Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival, New Zealand, and the International Storytelling Festival in Ljungby, Sweden. She lives with her family on a small family farm on Long Island, NY.


Heather Forest has published seven children's picture books, two folktale anthologies, eight audio recordings of storytelling and a popular educational web site Story Arts Online http://www.storyarts.org. Her recordings have won an American Library Association Notable Record Award, two Parent's Choice Gold
Awards, and three Storytelling World Honor Awards. Ms. Forest holds a Master’s Degree in Storytelling and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change. She is a recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award presented by the National Storytelling Network.

“A true troubadour... even the narrative parts of her storytelling seem to be sung; her delivery is so precise and compelling, she just draws one into her spell. Her stories are lovely, magical things and her singing voice is true, simple, and unadorned.”

 Martha’s
  Vineyard Times, MA