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Garner Educational Foundation
P.O. Box 581 Garner, NC 27529

Garner Storytelling Festival The tenth annual Garner Storytelling Festival on Saturday, February 23, 2013, at North Garner Middle School (720 Powell Drive, Garner) culminated the 2013 events—entitled Sharing Stories from the Heart—which included four days of school performances by professional story tellers, two storytelling sessions at the SE Regional Library, two half-day workshops for educators, and an afternoon festival with student performances. Over 1200 attended the Saturday events and almost 2600 students enjoyed the school performances. The featured professional presenter for the 2013 Festival was Donna Washington, an acclaimed state and national storyteller, who calls Durham, NC, home. She was joined by Charleston, SC, storyteller Hawk Hurst, and by local Garner storyteller Chuck Killian of the Garner United Methodist Church. Sixty-two students from the eight Garner-area elementary schools were storytellers alongside these professional storytellers while over 50 student singers from Timber Drive Elementary School and Creech Road Elementary School and over 25 student digital artists from Smith Elementary School, East Garner Elementary School, and Aversboro Elementary School entertained the audience prior to the Festival opening. Educators in the 2013 Storytelling Workshops learned how to use storytelling as an effective tool for literacy instruction in the classroom and for dealing with low self-esteem. The workshops were conducted by nationally recognized storyteller and folklorist Donna Washington and Terry L. Ledford, Ph.D., author of “Parables for a Wounded Heart.” The 2013 events were organized by the eleven GEF school media specialists in collaboration with the Garner Educational Foundation and the Wake County Public Library—SE Regional Branch. The primary sponsor for the event was McDonalds (Doris & Fred Huebner), with additional sponsorship by the Wake County School System, the Town of Garner, a Target Stores grant, Chick-fil-A, Barnes & Noble, the Wake County Public Library, and the sponsors for the annual GEF fundraiser, Cooks for Books. 2013 Garner Storytelling Festival 2012 Garner Storytelling Festival

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