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Bradbury Storytelling Festival Bradbury Storytelling Festival Bradbury Storytelling Festival Bradbury Storytelling Festival
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Photos By: Anais Constandse
 

Fourth Annual Bradbury Storytelling Festival "Literary Ghosts"

 

This eve of All Hallows Eve, storytellers will pry open the centuries-old tomes of Hamlet and other literary tales, giving rise to ghosts so grisly and stories so gory as to “harrow up thy soul.” So haste, intrepids, take your seat. The Fourth Annual Ray Bradbury Storytelling Festival is here, glutted with literary ghosts from Bradbury to Shakespeare, James, to the phantoms of the Genesee—still haunting the very ground beneath your feet. Curl up in your chair, and beware.

 

Bradbury The Fourth Annual Bradbury Storytelling Festival Conjures a Gamut of Emotions
By Ellyn Ruhlmann

 

About Ray Bradbury & the Bradbury Storytelling Festival

 
NEW 2009 Storytelling Festival Slideshow
 


Check out our blog for the latest news about the festival
Become a 2009 BSF Sponsor
Slideshow of 2007 Show
Ray Bradbury Biography & Links
Bradbury Lesson Plan Links
Read more about "The Lonely One"

 

About the Storytellers

 
Bradbury Storytelling Festival: Carol Birch
www.carolbirch.com
 

Carol Birch
Performing “Exchange” by Ray Bradbury

Helming the revival of platform storytelling, Birch lectures at universities across the nation and performs at storytelling events worldwide. In 1998, the National Storytelling Network honored her with its coveted Circle of Excellence Award. Birch has written and edited books on storytelling aesthetics, and produced three award-winning cassettes of her own original stories.

 

 
Bradbury Storytelling Festival: John Forsythe
 
 

John Forsythe
Performing a selection from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

A veteran Shakespearean actor and director, Forsythe has performed with CityLit, the Chicago Shakespeare Company, on numerous school tours and as Artist in Residence at the Skokie Library. There, he developed a piece on Mark Twain, later presented in Chicago as “Lies, Damned Lies, and Cheap Cigars.” Forsythe now serves as a director, drama instructor and math teacher at York High School in Elmhurst.

 

 
Bradbury Storytelling Festival: Jim May
www.storytelling.org
 

Jim May
Performing Genesee Theatre ghost stories and “The Boarded Window” by Ambrose Bierce

Chicago Emmy Award-winning May has regaled over one million children and families worldwide with his heartwarming folk tales, myths, legends and ghost stories. He co-founded the Illinois Storytelling Festival, and holds the Circle of Excellence Award for storytelling. May is the author of two books, including The Farm on Nippersink Creek, which won the “Best Book” Award from the Public Library Association.

 

 
Bradbury Storytelling Festival: Megan Wells
www.meganwells.com
 

Megan Wells
Performing a selection TBA

In 2007, The National Storytelling Festival honored Wells as a Featured New Voice. Now she serves as Board President of the Illinois Storytelling Festival, and performs original stories statewide at venues like the Art Institute, CSO, Chicago Historical Society, and scores of festivals, libraries, schools and museums.

 

2009 Sponsors

 
Air Con Refrigeration and Heating  Baxter International, Inc.

 Armed Forces Bank

 Complete Cleaning Company, Inc.      Daily Herald      Friends of the Waukegan Public Library      Great Lakes Credit Union

 Library Furniture International      North Shore Gas      Speer Financial
 
2009 Lead Sponsor:
$2,500
 
Friends of the Waukegan Public Library
 
 
2009 Book Sponsors:
$1,000

Become a 2009 Sponsor
 
North Shore Gas

Your name & link to your site could appear here!
 
 
2009 Chapter Sponsors:
$500

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Baxter International, Inc

Complete Cleaning Company, Inc.

Library Furniture International. Inc.

Your name & link to your site could appear here!
 
 
2009 Page Sponsors:
$250

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AirCon Refrigeration & Heating, Inc.

Armed Forces Bank

Daily Herald

Great Lakes Credit Union

Speer Financial, Inc.

Andrew Stimson and Jan Thornton

Your name & link to your site could appear here!
 
 



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