With Storytellers Kim Delfina Gleason of Two Worlds: Native Theater & Performing Arts, Sarah Malone, and a variety of local tellers curated by Olivia Romo.

Produced by SOMOS.

Founded 25 years ago, The Taos Storytelling Festival has grown into one of the most exciting storytelling festivals in America. The stories you’ll hear will make you laugh, smile, cry, chuckle, wonder, slap your knees, giggle, and applaud. This year our community storytelling event will take place at the Talpa Community Center on Friday, 10/13/23, at 6PM. Sarah Malone from Storytellers of New Mexico will lead a workshop on “The Art of Storytelling” at SOMOS from 10am-noon on Saturday, 10/14/23, followed by a free StorySwap from 2-3:30pm at Hacienda Martinez, with the main show that evening at 7PM at the Taos Center for the Arts.

Schedule

October 13, 2023

6:00 PM : Community Storytelling Event - Talpa Community Center invited storytellers curated by Olivia Romo.

4 Archuleta Rd., Ranchos de Taos

Admission: free, donations welcome

Olivia Romo is an American poet, spoken word artist and water rights activist from Taos, New Mexico. Romo lives in Pojoaque, and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Several of her poems and projects refer to water issues in relation to the acequia system of irrigation ditches in Northern New Mexico. Her work addresses the cultural heritage of water within agricultural communities as part of their current and ancestral ways of life. She is bilingual and her spoken word poetry is presented in the manito dialect of New Mexico.

She has been named the New Mexico State Champion of Slam Poetry, and was the state of Nevada’s first Poet in Residence. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Albuquerque Journal, and Taos News. She has been described as a water rights activist, and has worked for the New Mexico Acequia Association.

October 14, 2023

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM : Storytelling Workshop

The Art of Storytelling – A two-hour workshop taught by Sarah Malone.

$25 SOMOS Members/$35 non-members. Students eighteen and under are free.

Call SOMOS at 575-758-0081.

Limit 25 participants. This workshop will sell out. Buy your tickets now.

Sarah Malone is a bilingual storyteller who has woven tales for children and adults for over 30 years. Through storytelling, Sarah breathes life into words – drawing the listener into another realm through the powerful relationship between storyteller and listener.

She is a published author, recording artist, a founding member of Storytellers of New Mexico and its current treasurer. Her award winning CD, (now out of print) “Holding Up the Sky: Peace Tales for Kids” generated $30,000 in donations to peace causes. Sarah has presented at the United Nations in NYC, the Four Corners & SOMOS Taos storytelling festivals, at numerous libraries and private functions and on safari in Africa.

As a beekeeper she enjoys bringing live bees to events focused on the environment. Sarah received the National Storytelling Network 2017 Oracle Award for Service & Leadership.

FREE Community StorySwap

2:00-3:30 PM : Community Story Swap - Hacienda Martinez - 708 Hacienda Rd, Taos, NM

A free community Story Swap facilitated by Storytellers of New Mexico

7:00 PM : Main Show - TCA, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, 7PM.

Featuring Storytellers: Kim Delfina Gleason and Two Worlds: A Native Theater & Performing Arts Troupe, and perhaps a surprise teller or two!

Admission: $25; students eighteen and younger are free

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Date : October 13, 2023 - October 14, 2023

Location : Various Location

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