28th Annual Mariposa Storytelling Festival
in Mariposa & Yosemite National Park
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 13, 14, & 15, 2015
This year’s Annual Mariposa Storytelling Festival will feature many talented artists. The Sierra Sun Times will feature each storyteller leading up to the festival. Check back regularly for more information about each of this year’s featured guests.
Beth Horner
Mark your calendars for March 13-15 for the, Mariposa County Arts Council’s, 28th Mariposa Storytelling Festival, featuring six internationally acclaimed storytelling performers spinning tales for all ages. Within this lineup, master storyteller Beth Horner will share her many journeys of adventure, haunting eeriness and farmyard escapades. Horner's lively, traditional storytelling style often incorporates music for a dynamite performance sure to please the multitude of interests of her audience.
Beth encourages her listeners to dip into the wealth of their own creative minds. “When you watch a story on television or in a movie theater, you see one person's (the film maker's) depiction of the image - of a monster, a prince or an enraged tiger. When you hear a story, you create that image yourself. When I'm telling stories to 50 different people, there are 50 different movies going on in the minds of listeners. Nothing is as powerful or vivid as your own imagination."
A National Storytelling Network Circle of Excellence Oracle Award winner, Beth has been sought after as a storytelling performer and teaching artist since 1983. She has performed multiple times at the National Storytelling Festival, on "Live From National Geographic", at Miami's International Art of Storytelling Festival and as narrative consultant for NASA/Johnson Space Center's Story Mining project for which she collected the stories of the scientists behind the Apollo Space Missions.
Plan to join Beth and the five other equally outstanding storytellers and challenge the wealth of your own imagination. To purchase tickets to the 28th Mariposa Storytelling Festival, March 13 – 15, call the Mariposa County Arts Council at (209) 966-3155, or visit us at: www.mariposaartscouncil.org. Friday and Saturday’s Storytelling performances take place at Mariposa County High School, Sunday’s events take place in the Park Service’s East Auditorium, in Yosemite National Park.
The Mariposa Arts Council, sponsor of the Mariposa Storytelling Festival, is funded in part by Mariposa County, the California Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The MARIPOSA COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL, INC. is an incorporated not-for- profit organization, created to promote and support all forms of the cultural arts, for all ages, throughout Mariposa County.
For more information about Beth Horner visit her website at: http://bethhorner.com
