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• Table Rock Storytelling Festival ‘25 FOUR Saturday Events

  • Start
    03/22/2025
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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

  March 22 - MICHAEL RENO HARRELL

  June 24 - CONNIE REGAN BLAKE

  September 13 - JOSH GOFORTH

  December 6 - TIM LOWRY

  TICKETS HERE: https://www.burkearts.org/events/table-rock-storytelling

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

  
  

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• Spring Retreat with MEGAN WELLS

  • Start
    04/04/2025
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    4:00 PM
  • End
    04/06/2025
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    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC

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  SPRING RETREAT with MEGAN WELLS

  at Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC

  April 4 - April 6, 2025

  

       Imagine this...you have a story, yearning to come to life, grow, and bloom in the world. So you and your story escape from daily distractions to a quiet lodge on top of a beautiful NC mountain. Then, with care and humility, you tell your story to one of the most sought-after storytelling coaches in the country, surrounded by a circle of Delighted Listeners - your storyteller friends eager to learn with you - as your coach lovingly helps you polish your little gem. And in the process, we all learn together and enjoy the unique alchemy of storytelling.

  If this appeals to you, REGISTER now. Spaces are limited and filling fast. 
  

  • Registration deadline is March 15!

  • Special format: 20 participants, 1 leader

  • Ten who sign up to bring a story for a one-on-one coaching session with Megan, observed by the whole group. This story will also be performed at a Sunday morning OLIO. The registration fee for a COACHING spot is $400. 

  • 10 Delighted Listener learner spots.

  • Sign up now to be a part of the Delighted Listener Learner audience and learn from the process. The registration fee for a DELIGHTED LISTENER LEARNER spot is $275.

  • Registration fee is ALL inclusive of lodging, meals, snacks, & learning together. 

  • Sunday morning Olio performance  of the ten stories

  • Saturday evening fellowship time for fun, healing, and singing with our Tribe

  • Contact Dianne Hackworth for more detail and to register for one of the limited spots. dianne@diannehackworth.com

  • Info about Megan Wells HERE

  • Info about Wildacres Retreat HERE

  • Info about North Carolina Storytelling Guild HERE

  REVIEWS from Spring Retreat with Megan Wells. 

  Just got home from the NCSG Spring Retreat and WOW! What a great weekend! Wildacres is a special place- great staff, delicious meals and a breath-taking location. The workshop itself was a standout. The diversity of storytelling talent gathered under one roof was impressive, as was Megan’s coaching. The feedback she provided was as unique as the storytellers themselves, and it was easy to see the improvement in all of the stories when we shared our revised versions. Perhaps best of was the sense of community and trust that formed between the tellers. One of the best things I’ve done for my storytelling in a long while.   - Andy Russell

  This is to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed Megan Wells's workshop.  She is a "sought-after coach" for good reason!  She is so gentle in the way she suggests ways to draw an audience more fully into one's story, without telling one WHAT to do.  I could not have found a better teacher for the story I presented. - Donna Catton-Johnson

  I spent last weekend at the North Carolina Storytelling Guild Spring Retreat at the Wild Acres Retreat Center in the mountains east of Asheville. Our workshop leader Megan Wells did an amazing job of creating a safe and sacred space for everyone to create and craft their stories. Thanks to Dianne Hackworth for putting it all together and to the fabulous crew at Wild Acres for making us feel so welcome. Thanks to everyone who attended, both tellers and listeners, you made this time together Magick. (That's "magic" with a "k" for the Old Magick) And of course, thanks to Megan Wells for shining her heart light so that we could see previously undiscovered places in our stories. - Janel Behm

  
  

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• LIES and PIES - Festival of Fun on Stage

  • When
    04/12/2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    Peacock Performing Arts Center in Hayesville, NC.

  
  

  LIES and PIES - Festival of Fun on Stage 

  Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

  Lies and Pies is held annually at the Peacock Performing Arts Center in Hayesville, NC.  

  A fun festival on the stage. Ten storytellers and singer-song writers perform together reviving a decade-old tradition of yarn-spinning, tall tale-telling, and big fib-stretching, where music sets the tone. From the liar’s bench at the hardware store to the possum drop at the crossroads in Brasstown sink your teeth into a slice of home-cooked humor. Add a fresh homemade pie in the night’s auction as a tasty treat and let the good times roll! Come join the fun!

  Adults: $17, 65+/Military: $12, Students: $7, 8 and Under: $0 (+NC Tax)

  For more ticket information at https://www.thepeacocknc.org or BoxOffice@ThePeacockNC.org.

  For additional information -

  Kanute P. Rarey - Storyteller 

  502-525-7272

  kanutetells@gmail.com

  www.kanuterarey.com

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• Voices From The Edge, with Donna Washington & Milbre Burch

  • When
    04/19/2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC

  Saturday, April 19 · 7 - 9pm EDT. Doors at 6:30pm

  Durham Arts Council
  

  120 Morris Street Durham, NC

  Voices From The Edge

  
  

  Donna Washington & Milbre Burch present an evening of storytelling for adults at the PSI Theater, sponsored by the Durham Arts Council.
  

  Voices From The Edge combines family history, personal experience, folklore, and a dramatic monologue to spotlight some of the cultural forces that leave many Americans vulnerable. It also offers hope and empowerment in this time of uncertainty.

  FREE event. Reserve your spots here. 

  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-from-the-edge-tickets-1287583229099?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwY2xjawJISWpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSA1TlNIVcJZnRnpc8kP_aEG0pdiWxpr36qM2e2oKZNA7UCBVtOCeXC7Hw_aem_VGHZv0bm2VT_YK3G9VzUfQ
  

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• Roadhouse Storytellers at Page-Walker Arts

  • When
    04/26/2025
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop, Downtown Cary, NC

  
  

  
  

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