The Wake Forest Renaissance Centre will host the inaugural Forest Storytelling Festival on Saturday, Aug. 9.
Featuring four professional storytellers, along with entertaining workshops and concerts for children and adults, the festival will introduce the art of storytelling to the Wake Forest community and celebrate one of humanity’s oldest art forms. With four renowned tellers of different backgrounds, audiences of all ages are sure to relate to their colorful, humorous and inspirational stories.
The Forest Storytelling Festival will begin at 10 a.m. with a Children’s Storytelling Concert featuring performances by Claire Ramsey and Priscilla Best, followed at 11 a.m. by a variety of workshops for children of all ages. A free open mike session for children’s workshop participants at 12:30 p.m. will conclude the children’s programs.
The adult-focused programming will begin with workshops at 2:30 p.m. and continue with free open mike performances at 4 p.m. The day-long festival will climax at 7 p.m. with the Adult Storytelling Concert featuring performances by Gale Buck and Robin Kitson.
Tickets are $5 each for the Children’s Storytelling Concert and the children’s and adult workshops and $10 for the Adult Storytelling Concert. Tickets for each event may be purchased online or at the Wake Forest Town Hall, 301 South Brooks Street.
