Storyteller Gerald Fierst is among the presenters at Nov. 24’s Tellabration at the Hamilton Township Public Library. The event is co-sponsored by the Garden State Storytellers League.
Folk musician Charlie Zahm is set to present at Nov. 24’s Tellabration at the Hamilton Township Public Library.
Tellabration 2013 at Hamilton, a benefit storytelling concert and workshop, is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 24 from 1-5 p.m. The event, co-sponsored by the Garden State Storytellers League, Inc., will be held at the Hamilton Township Public Library.
The storytelling workshop begins at 1 p.m., followed by a concert at 3. Admission for both the storytelling workshop and Tellabration concert is $20. Tickets for just the concert are $10.
Four professional development hours will be awarded to New Jersey educators who attend both the workshop and concert. Proceeds will be donated to the Patrick S. Biddulph Foundation for Leukemia Research and the Hamilton Township Library Trust Fund.
Storyteller Gerald Fierst will present the storytelling workshop “In Genius: Teaching Out of the Box.” The workshop demonstrates the NJ Common Core State Standards and the NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards in English Language Arts Literacy/Visual and Performing Arts.
In Fierst’s participatory workshop—using story, theater, poetry and games—attendees will see how to motivate students to higher level thinking, revealing the imagination that is the genius in all of us. They will learn simple, practical games and exercises that will encourage even the most reluctant learners to feel that learning is extraordinary while supporting core curriculum skills of listening, reading, writing and comprehension. They will improve their own storytelling skills by cultivating synectic thinking and playing with the rhythms and rhymes of improvisational language.
Fierst has appeared throughout the U.S., in Europe and in Asia telling original stories, stories from his own Jewish tradition and stories from world folklore. He presents workshops for teachers and students in writing and performance. He was a Co-director of the MidAtlantic Storytellers’ Gathering and was a member of the board of The New York Storytelling Center. He has been a featured teller and ghost story teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn., and a Storyteller in Residence at the International Storytelling Center. For more information on Fierst, go online to https://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/storyteller/meet.htm.
In conjunction with the storytelling workshop, participants also will attend a storytelling concert featuring folk musician Charlie Zahm, a singer-songwriter of Celtic, Maritime, Early American and Civil War music. He has become one of the most successful performers on the Celtic festival circuit, weaving magical moments of Scottish and Irish history for the listener. A master of the guitar and Bodhran Celtic drum, he brings an authentic love and respect for the music he sings. For more information on Zahm, go online at charliezahm.com.
In addition, two storytellers of the Garden State Storytellers League will be featured at the concert: Stephen Tatrai and Ingrid Bruck. Tatrai, a Hamilton Township resident, worked in the computer department of Johnson and Johnson. He now is a substitute teacher as well as a volunteer in the Hamilton Township School District, volunteering as a classroom aide in the first and third grades at Alexander School by reading, checking homework and providing the teacher with an extra set of hands. Tatrai and his wife, Trish, have two daughters, who attend Steinert High School.
Bruck, retired, was the Director of the Long Branch Public Library. Mistress of Ceremonies will be Gwendolyn Jones, Professor Emerita, The College of New Jersey. Jones is a storyteller and Founder of the Garden State Storytellers League.
For more information, call Carol Satz at (609) 890-3378 or Gwendolyn Jones at (609) 499-0107 or email englearnr@aol.com. Pre-registration is encouraged.
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