Friday, November 30, 2007

Spirit of Oklahoma June 2008

•Oklahoma's state storytelling guild-Territory Tellers, will be hosting the second annual Oklahoma storytelling festival in Seminole, OK the first weekend in June on the campus of Seminole State College.
•This event, sponsored by the Seminole Chamber of Commerce, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and Territory Tellers in conjunction with Seminole State College, will be held on and around the college campus.

•The Spirit of Oklahoma storytelling festival will kick off, Friday, June 6th with workshop intensives, a computer class, an evening performance at the Enoch Kelly Haney Center and ending the night with ghost stories at the historic Mekusukey Mission grounds located south of Seminole. Both tellers and fanciers of word-of-mouth stories will be featured along with regional storytellers Tim Tingle, Elizabeth Ellis and Barbara McBride-Smith.
•Saturday sessions will include story swaps and workshops in mini-sessions for college credit, ending the evening with a performance of featured tellers.