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From: Lisa Von Drasek <lisav>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:37:53 -0400
AN EVENING WITH DR. MARGARET READ MACDONALD
Dr.. Margaret Read MacDonald, author of 45 children's books and one of the world's most prominent folklorists, will be performing and speaking about stories on Wednesday, August 9, at 7:00PM, at The Downtown Center, 219 Sullivan Street, between West 3rd. St and Bleecker St., NYC.
MacDonald is known for her lively audience participation folktales adapted from world folklore and collected on her global travels to Europe, Asia, South America, and the South Pacific. She is accompanied with musical improvisation by Richard Scholtz on the autoharp and dulcimer. A performance of world tales will be followed by a Q&A and a book signing.
MacDonald is the editor of the classic reference books, The Storytellers Source Book and Twenty Tellable Tales. She won a Parents Choice award for the picture books Marbella the Clever and Fat Cat, and she is the recipient of the Talking Leaves Literary Award, established in 2001 by the National Storytelling Network to honor those who "have had a major influence and force in the literary body of storytelling.??? As a children's librarian, MacDonald has influenced a generation of libraries in the use of storytelling as a tool in teaching literacy .
Schotz teaches music for educators at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, and produces tapes and CD's with Tom Hunter, MacDonald, and other musical comrades.
The School Library Journal called MacDonald the ???grand dame of storytelling." This appearance, sponsored by the Storytelling Center of New York, is a rare appearance in the New York Metropolitan region.
The Theatre at the Downtown Center 219 Sullivan Street (between Bleecker & West 3rd Street), New York City
(Nearest MTA subway stations: West 4th Street [A,B, C, D, E, F, and V], Sheridan Square: [number 1 line] and Bleecker Street [number 6 line]) Wednesday, August 9, 2006, 7:00 p.m. Admission: $12 general public
$10 members and librarians
contact: Regina Ress The Storytelling Center, INC storytellerRRess at aol.com 212 260-3674
Received on Fri 30 Jun 2006 05:37:53 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:37:53 -0400
AN EVENING WITH DR. MARGARET READ MACDONALD
Dr.. Margaret Read MacDonald, author of 45 children's books and one of the world's most prominent folklorists, will be performing and speaking about stories on Wednesday, August 9, at 7:00PM, at The Downtown Center, 219 Sullivan Street, between West 3rd. St and Bleecker St., NYC.
MacDonald is known for her lively audience participation folktales adapted from world folklore and collected on her global travels to Europe, Asia, South America, and the South Pacific. She is accompanied with musical improvisation by Richard Scholtz on the autoharp and dulcimer. A performance of world tales will be followed by a Q&A and a book signing.
MacDonald is the editor of the classic reference books, The Storytellers Source Book and Twenty Tellable Tales. She won a Parents Choice award for the picture books Marbella the Clever and Fat Cat, and she is the recipient of the Talking Leaves Literary Award, established in 2001 by the National Storytelling Network to honor those who "have had a major influence and force in the literary body of storytelling.??? As a children's librarian, MacDonald has influenced a generation of libraries in the use of storytelling as a tool in teaching literacy .
Schotz teaches music for educators at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, and produces tapes and CD's with Tom Hunter, MacDonald, and other musical comrades.
The School Library Journal called MacDonald the ???grand dame of storytelling." This appearance, sponsored by the Storytelling Center of New York, is a rare appearance in the New York Metropolitan region.
The Theatre at the Downtown Center 219 Sullivan Street (between Bleecker & West 3rd Street), New York City
(Nearest MTA subway stations: West 4th Street [A,B, C, D, E, F, and V], Sheridan Square: [number 1 line] and Bleecker Street [number 6 line]) Wednesday, August 9, 2006, 7:00 p.m. Admission: $12 general public
$10 members and librarians
contact: Regina Ress The Storytelling Center, INC storytellerRRess at aol.com 212 260-3674
Received on Fri 30 Jun 2006 05:37:53 PM CDT
