Tell Me a Story—
Multicultural Storytelling at City Park
Two great storytellers, Lyn Ford of Columbus Ohio and Andy Fraenkel of Moundsville WV, join forces at the 15th Annual MOV Multi-Cultural Festival, Saturday, June 19th, to bring multicultural storytelling alive at the Storytelling Tent. Under the big shade trees of City Park, you can listen to Lyn share her “Home Fried Tales” rooted in her family’s multicultural African American storytelling traditions. Andy will share folktales, legends and myths, with help from his hand held musical instruments from around the world.
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| Lynette (Lyn) Ford shares "Home-Fried Tales," adaptations of folktales "from many places and many faces," as well as her own original stories and personal narratives. Lyn's rhythmic, interactive, storytelling style encourages language and literacy skills, creative writing, and an appreciation for the oral tradition among all types of learners. Lyn's storytelling is rooted in her family's multicultural Afrilachian oral traditions, and her own love of stories. Lyn's work has been publicized on the PTO Today web site, and published in Storytelling Magazine, as well as two 2006 publications: The Storytelling Classroom: Applications Across the Curriculum (Libraries Unlimited), and Sayin' Somethin': Stories from the National Association of Black Storytellers (National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc.). 2009 publications include a story in The August House Book of Scary Stories (August House), a book of stories and tips for telling them for grades 5+, and an activity for elementary grade levels in Literacy in the Storytelling Classroom (Libraries Unlimited). Some of her stories are available on CD. Lyn is also an Ohio Teaching Artist in The Ohio State-Based Collaborative Initiative; she has successfully completed training offered in collaboration with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in order to provide professional development workshops and interactive sessions pertinent to benchmarks of academic content standards and diverse ways of learning. |
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| In the summer of 2007, Lyn received an Oracle Award for Leadership and Service from the National Storytelling Network. Lyn received a 2008 Friend of Education Award from Reynoldsburg public schools, for her ongoing contribution of creative learning and enrichment experiences as Herbert Mills Elementary School's storyteller in residence. Lyn has also provided stories for public libraries' summer reading programs, keynote and closing presentations, and workshop at universities, education and literacy conferences, and storytelling conferences and festivals. Lyn has appeared at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and presented workshops for the National Storytelling Conference. Lyn has also been a storyteller-in-residence at the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough. Lyn was named the winner of the Liars' Contest (for tall tales, not lies!) at the 2005 National Association of Black Storytellers Conference and Festival, held in Tampa; she has also shared stories at the TalkStory Festival in Hawaii, and at other national gatherings, including the St. Louis Storytelling Festival, the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in Orem, Utah, the Eugene (Oregon) Multicultural Festival, and the Northlands Storytelling Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Lyn will tell stories at the Cape Clear Storytelling Festival in Ireland in the fall of 2009. |
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Andy Fraenkel is a storyteller, author and workshop leader. He is the recipient of the Artist Fellowship Award in Children's Literature from West Virginia's Division of Culture & History. Andy feels that one of the most important tasks for an educator is to transmit the joy and the richness of the spoken word to young people. "When kids are inspired to become more effective communicators," he comments, "everyone stands to benefit."
Andy, with a degree in Theater from City University of New York (1970), weaves together the art of the actor, storyteller and writer. He shares with students his sense of wonder in the variety of ways in which we communicate. Over the years he has made presentations in all sorts of venues; from elementary schools to colleges, from radio & TV to Off Broadway, from libraries and museums to storytelling festivals. He also offers master classes and workshops on the uses and dynamics of STORY for professionals in many fields. |
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| Andy travels widely offering energetic programs, sharing folktales, legends and myths, as well as his collection of hand held musical instruments from around the world. Andy brings to your students an interactive program which promotes positive values, an appreciation for world literature and cultures, and provides tips on creative self-expression. |
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