Storyteller Mary Garrett --  Stories make the world go around                

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away.. .

                        Traditional Tales - Folktales - Humor

My Coming Events

Gateway Meetings -- Fourth Tuesday of Odd Months-- September 28, November 23

Gateway Meeting   6 p.m. Tuesday, January 26, 2010    Story Swap  7-8:30 p.m. 

Crown Center, 8350 Delcrest, St. Louis, MO 63124.  

Summer Picnics --  4th Tuesdays of even months (months with no formal Gateway meeting),  

6:30 June 22 at Stacy Park (Olive and Old Bonhomme).   August 24 to be decided, perhaps Tilles Park?

Second Tuesday Storytelling Evenings -- on temporary summer hold.  More info will be coming . . .

CD Sales and Storytelling!!  11:00 a.m. September 11, 2010  Borders, Mid Rivers

November 3-6, 2010, Kansas City Storytelling Celebration MCC-MAPLE WOODS

Bobby Norfolk, Olga Loya, Thom and Sarah Howard, and Elizabeth Ellis

http://mcckc.edu/storytelling/

Every Sunday 7 p.m. Central time, Story-Lovers’ Radio  It's a good show!

I’m on sometimes -- good tellers are on every week!  Here's how you do it:

After adjusting for your time zone, go to http://www.ksvy.org/home.htm

Click on High or Low Speed in the upper right-hand corner

You should be switched immediately to the program in progress... Good listening!!!

Jackie B.     Story Lovers World     http://www.story-lovers.com

Past Events:

July 30 -- Warner Center Marriott

in Woodland Hills, CA (northern Los Angeles) 

I have been selected to perform “Sheherazade”

at the 2010 National Storytelling Conference,

representing NSN’s South Central region in the

All Regions Concert!

May 1,  2010  “Frog Goes to High School” workshop

at O.O.P.S! twenty-fourth Annual Spring Conference

in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Dovie Thomason was the Featured Teller!!

                clap! clap! clap! clap! deep in the heart of Texas!

1. •Storytelling Celebration at Metropolitan Community College at Maplewood (Kansas City)
   

2. •St. Louis Storytelling Festival
   

3. •Timpanogos Midwinter Storytelling Conference
   

4. •Lincoln's New Salem
   

5. •Affton Arts and Craft Fair
   

6. •Greater St. Louis Renaissance Faire
   

7. •VOICES OF PEACE: An Interfaith Storytelling Concert  From peace in your heart to peace among nations…   stories & music from the world’s spiritual traditions . Folktales, personal, historical & original stories from Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish & Muslim storytellers .The Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows  www.metroeastinterfaith.org
   

8. •Francis Howell North High School Talent Showcase
   

1. •Missouri History Museum: Caribbean and Other Folk Tales
   

1. •Faust Park: Historical Haunting and Carousel Tales
   

2. •St. Louis Public Library
   

3. •Coverdell Elementary, St. Charles
   

4. •Hackmann Early Childhood Center
   

5. •Vacation Station at Castlio (elementary after-school summer program)
   

1. •St. Charles County YMCA
   

1. •CD Release - Storytelling!!
   

2. •Main Street Books 307 S. Main St. St. Charles, MO 63301 http://www.mainstreetbooks.net/
   

3. •Borders, Mid Rivers  http://www.borders.com/
   

4. •Crooked Tree Coffee House
   

1. •St. Louis Radio Station KFUO 850 AM
   

1. •StoryLovers World with Jackie Baldwin, on radio station KSVY 91.3, Sonoma, CA
   

Radio Debut 2008 -- On Sunday, May 11, 2008, Mary's CD "Courage and Wisdom:

Stories Make the World Go Around" made its debut on Jackie Baldwin's radio show (also streaming

live on the internet). Mary's CD is available for purchase from Mary by e-mail.

Here's the "blurb" from Jackie:

Hi, all...

Another good Story Lovers World radio show coming up this Sunday, 5/11, 5-6 p.m. Pacific Daylight

Savings Time, KSVY 91.3 FM, Sonoma, CA

Title: Something New #2 (this is program #60!)

We've got terrific stories, some new tellers, and one of our very own favorite Storytellers,

Mary Garrett!!

Here's the lineup:

From Amy Friedman's new CD, Tell Me A Story 2: Animal Tales, we'll hear Peter James Smith

(The Poet and the Dragon, China), Len Cariou (The Talking Cat)

From the Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild CD, Time Warp Tales: Stories of Growing Up, produced by

our own Judy Schmidt, Jeff Doyle (The Secret Passage)

And from her brand new CD Courage and Wisdom: Stories Make the World Go Around...

Mary Garrett (Sheherazade; The Minstrel Queen (aka The Lute Player); and The Dervish in the Road)

(only 45 minutes and 500 years from St. Louis)

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