Join Us At The Annual Timpanogos Storytelling Festival
Timpanogos Storytelling Festival will
be held Aug. 29 - 31, 2013, at Mt. Timpanogos Park in
Orem (just north of Povo).
The festival is a great family event
with something for everyone including tall tales, inspirational
stories, performances, arts/crafts and other activities.
Timpanogos is a towering mountain that
dominates the Utah County
skyline. It offers great opportunity for adventure - the hike to the
summit is one of the classic mountaineering treks in the Western U.S.
The mountain has long inspired tall
tales, some of which have grown into legends in their own right. The
storytelling festival grew up as an effort to preserve and promote
these local legends, in an entertaining manner. Now it has expanded
to include guests from around the world.
The festival
website has complete info, including a schedule of events.
The festival provided the info below:
It’s story time!
The Timpanogos Storytelling Festival is the premier family event of
Utah Valley. We invite storytellers from around the nation and across
the waters to join some of our homegrown talent and share stories
under our own majestic Mount Timpanogos. Stories range from fairy
tales and fables from various cultures to personal stories of growing
up in the Appalachian Mountains. There are historical tellers, tall
tale tellers, and youth tellers.
Between
storytelling hours, younger ones love to watch the puppeteers while
older festival goers enjoy making vases and cups with the potters.
Everyone enjoys the food (provided by some of the valley’s finest
food vendors) and the jugglers who entertain during lunch and dinner.
You can also relax in the music tent and enjoy an incredible array of
music. In fact, you could call us a music festival if it wasn’t for
all the stories!
... Though it
started out as a backyard event in a small town neighborhood in 1990,
it is now the largest storytelling festival in the west and sets the
standard for festivals across the nation. From that humble beginning
we have grown steadily each year.
In addition to the
festival, we now support the annual Timpanogos Storytelling
Conference and several storytelling contests and retreats. But it
doesn’t stop there. We have expanded our influence to reach
children in schools and youth across the country in ways we would
have never imagined 24 years ago.
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