This evening at the Naperville City Council Meeting a proclamation was presented to Anderson’s Bookshop beginning the 2012 Naperville READS program. Since 2001, Naperville READS has sought to promote community through the joy of reading. Each year Naperville celebrates great authors by reading and discussing their books and then inviting them to visit our town. Thousands of Naperville residents attend these author visits with their families and friends and experience the joy of story as a community. This year’s theme for Naperville Reads is What’s Your Story?
The Naperville READS 2012 committee invited the Clow TattleTales and Gregory Fellowship of Legend storytellers to participate in two exciting story events. The first was this evening where the combined group welcomed in the What's Your Story? 2012 Naperville READS theme with "The Storytelling Song" (used with permission from Swamp Gravy of the Colquitt Miller Arts Council in Colquitt, GA). Be sure to catch their presentation on Naperville Community Television, channel 17. The second event will be as an opening act for Antonio Sacre at Wentz Hall, North Central College the evening of February 9th.
Antonio is an internationally-touring writer, storyteller, and solo performance artist based in Los Angeles. He has performed at the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, the National Storytelling Festival, and many international festivals. He is also widely recognized as a performer and workshop leader at museums, schools, and libraries. Antonio Sacre's books for children are: The Barking Mouse, A Mango in the Hand: A Story Told Through Proverbs, La Noche Buena: A Christmas Story.
The thirty two TattleTales are fourth and fifth graders from Clow Elementary and the nineteen Fellowship of Legend are sixth – eighth graders. They work all year to learn stories that they tell at a spring storytelling festival. This year will be the tenth anniversary for Clow’s festival and the first for Gregory. As the TattleTales and Fellowship of Legend said this evening, "I've got a story. What's yours?"
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The Naperville READS 2012 committee invited the Clow TattleTales and Gregory Fellowship of Legend storytellers to participate in two exciting story events. The first was this evening where the combined group welcomed in the What's Your Story? 2012 Naperville READS theme with "The Storytelling Song" (used with permission from Swamp Gravy of the Colquitt Miller Arts Council in Colquitt, GA). Be sure to catch their presentation on Naperville Community Television, channel 17. The second event will be as an opening act for Antonio Sacre at Wentz Hall, North Central College the evening of February 9th.
Antonio is an internationally-touring writer, storyteller, and solo performance artist based in Los Angeles. He has performed at the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, the National Storytelling Festival, and many international festivals. He is also widely recognized as a performer and workshop leader at museums, schools, and libraries. Antonio Sacre's books for children are: The Barking Mouse, A Mango in the Hand: A Story Told Through Proverbs, La Noche Buena: A Christmas Story.
The thirty two TattleTales are fourth and fifth graders from Clow Elementary and the nineteen Fellowship of Legend are sixth – eighth graders. They work all year to learn stories that they tell at a spring storytelling festival. This year will be the tenth anniversary for Clow’s festival and the first for Gregory. As the TattleTales and Fellowship of Legend said this evening, "I've got a story. What's yours?"
