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• Table Rock Storytelling Festival ‘25 FOUR Saturday Events

  • Start
    06/21/2025
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    3:00 PM
  • End
    12/06/2025
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    8:00 PM
  • Location
    The Burke County Art Council, 506 S Sterling St., Morganton, NC

  
  

  Table Rock Storytelling Festival

  Exciting announcement! NEW THEATER. NEW FORMAT. The Burke County Arts Council has just opened a wonderful new facility that serves our community in many ways. It not only functions as a gallery, a teaching facility, and an event center but includes a fabulous new theater. To inaugurate this theater, we have a BRAND NEW format for our Table Rock Storytelling Festival ‘25. Four events throughout the year featuring a nationally known storyteller.
  

  The ticket price includes -

  **Meet the Teller reception

  **Afternoon workshop

  **Evening storytelling concert

  June 21 - CONNIE REGAN BLAKE

  September 13 - JOSH GOFORTH

  December 6 - TIM LOWRY

  TICKETS HERE:  https://www.burkearts.org/events/june-storytelling-connie

  location information - The Burke County Art Council, 506 S Sterling St, Morganton, NC 28655. https://www.burkearts.org

  
  

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• STORYTELLER Open Mic featuring CHRIS WISE

  • When
    10/25/2025
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    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Artists Art Center, 116 N. Pine St., Spring Hope, NC

  
  

  116 N Pine Street, Spring Hope, NC, United States, North Carolina 27882

  Mark Your Calendars, it's Story Time, Fall Style! Get ready, storytellers and spoken word lovers, our next Story Teller Open Mic: Harvest Tales – Stories of Abundance and Gratitude is almost here. Join us to celebrate the season of abundance with an afternoon filled with powerful stories, laughter, and community spirit. Come share, listen, and connect, it's going to be a harvest of voices you won’t forget! Tickets: $15 online

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• HOW TO TELL A STORY - Developing Your Storytelling Chops and Repertoire With Your Audience In Mind

  • When
    11/07/2025
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    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Principal's Hall, Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave., Cary, NC

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• FREE Event = Meet and Greet at the Old North State Storytelling Festival

  • When
    11/07/2025
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Upper Lobby of the Cary Theater, Cary, NC

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• Old North State Storytelling Festival

  • Start
    11/07/2025
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    7:00 PM
  • End
    11/08/2025
  •  
    10:00 PM
  • Location
    The Cary Theater, Cary, NC

  http://www.oldnorthstatestorytellingfestival.com

  November 7 & 8, 2025

  The Cary Theater

  FEATURING

  Tim Lowry, Motoko, Rev. Robert B Jones, Paul Strickland,

  Peg Helminski,

  & Milbre Burch, Emcee.

  Tickets on sale September 15. Go to www.oldnorthstatestorytellingfestival.com

  Tickets go on sale SEPTEMBER 15. 

  Go to www.oldnorthstatestorytellingfestival.com

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• Mill Town Yarns presents the Regional North Carolina Storytellers Showcase @ Bynum Front Porch

  • When
    11/15/2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Bynum Front Porch, 950 Bynum Road,Bynum, NC

  Mill Town Yarns presents the

  Regional North Carolina

  Storytellers Showcase @ BFP

  • Saturday, November 15, 2025
  • 7:00 PM  8:30 PM

  • Bynum Front Porch950 Bynum RoadBynum, NC 27228United States (map)

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  Saturday, November 15, 7:00-8:30 pm

  Mill Town Yarns performance series presents: 

  Regional North Carolina Storytellers Showcase!

  Featuring professional tellers from the North Carolina Storytelling Guild: Ron Jones, Cynthia Brown, Steven Tate, Willa Brigham, Peg Helminski and Robin Kitson

  Free.  Donations welcome.

  “Storytelling is magic. It transforms life into legend, and strangers into kindred spirits.”

  
  

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• Sing Me A Story - Tell Me A Song, WINTER WORKSHOP with Jennifer Armstrong

  • Start
    01/30/2026
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    4:00 PM
  • End
    02/01/2026
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Fort Caswell Retreat, Oak Island, NC

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  2026 WINTER WORKSHOP with Jennifer Armstrong
  

  Sing Me A Story - Tell Me A Song

  Friday, January 30, 4 pm - Sunday, February 1, 11 am.

  Ft. Caswell, Oak Island, NC

  Members $300

  Non-members $350

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Come spend a weekend playing with the music, rhythm, and poetry of storytelling. Melody is one part of music, yes, just as words are part of a story, but there is so much more! There is rhythm, refrains, tempo, dynamics, crescendos, and rests… Oh my friends, the importance of silence. We will explore this fully. We need to leave space in our storytelling for our listeners to enter the story. Claude Debussy famously said, “Music is the space between the notes.”  I believe we can say the same for stories. Stories come alive in the silence between the words. You do not need to be a singer or play an instrument, for that is not the music I am talking about (wonderful though it is!). We will be exploring the music that dwells at the heart of every story.

  
  

  Jennifer has been telling stories since 1959. (She was 2 years old and had to tell Goldilocks and the Three Bears herself for a bedtime story because her mother was sick of telling it.) Jennifer now tells stories every month at the Montessori school a mile from her house, where a 4-year-old today excitedly asked her where the gingerbread man was (the dancing puppet) and she was going to blow in her bag? (Play her bagpipe) She co-leads a monthly women’s song and story circle where she and Katherine tell stories around 12 feminine archetypes. She is looking forward to sharing stories in Fort Caswell.

  Jennifer Armstrong has spent her life writing, singing, and making music with fiddle, bagpipe, banjo, and words. A storyteller with humor, warmth, and grace, she is also a singer, instrumentalist, poet, and published author. Jennifer works as an artist in residence in folk arts, storytelling, and writing, as well as a private teacher and performer. Her stories and songs about farming, life’s mysteries, love, and gratitude have been heard across the country — from the Kennedy Center to NPR — and she has recordings and published books to her credit.

  Jennifer is wonderful, informative, and entertaining. To put it simply, people love her! –  Music Center of the North Shore

  Visit Jennifer’s website.

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