The North Carolina Storytelling Guild (NCSG) is focused on serving the storytelling Community - storytellers and audiences alike by providing storytelling events, continuing education opportunities and advocacy for the art of the oral tradition throughout the state of North Carolina. The NCSG currently sponsors an annual storytelling festival in November of each year, as well as a Winter Workshop and Spring Retreat/Annual Meeting.

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Featured Teller

Ray Mendenhall

Stories2Go
      
with the Basic Bard

          Folkteller, Tall teller, Singer, Songwriter and Humorist.

Ray Mendenhall IS the Basic Bard

From the very first moment, Ray Mendenhall invites the listeners todraw near and enter a world of  Amazing Songs and Whimsical Stories…His performances have been described as “inviting” and “joyously interactive.”From group participation to having audience members “play the parts” of  his stories, Ray invites folks to step into his world of storytelling.

Whether a contemporary children’s story or one of Aesop’s fables, a classic fairytale or  an international folk story, a story from his “hometown” of Fork, NC to homespun humor, Ray invites his listeners to gain lessons of life and new insights from his characters and their lives. His sense of humor infuses his stories and his easy style invites listeners to get comfortable in the sometimes strange new surroundings of his tales.

 A Word from the Bard…

 “Stories provide us with a new way of seeing, allow us to try on new ways of thinking, acting or believing, and offer us opportunities to see ordinary things in a new light. Stories draw us in, provide us new landscapes to explore and enable us to discover new truths and  a broader view of the world.”

Entertaining Storytelling for all occasions

Programs for Civic Clubs, Family Gatherings, Church Socials and Gatherings, After Dinner Entertainment, School Groups, Workshops, Storytelling Training, Festivals and Community Events.

STORIES 4LIFE

STORIES4U

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Ray Mendenhall                        rwmend@juno.com
PO Box 579                                910-259-8530
Burgaw, NC 28425                              

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Greensboro, NC, 27402