Bay Area Storytelling Festival
The Bay Area Storytelling Festival is now in its 24th year of introducing Northern Californians to world class storytellers. This two-day festival, held the third weekend of May in El Sobrante's Kennedy Grove, is in part of the beautiful East Bay Regional Park District. It is preceded by a Friday study trip, allowing over 600 middle schoolers to hear from featured tellers at the Grove.

• See photos from last year's Festival!
  May 17 & 18, 2008
  
• See a list of past festival performers over 25 Fesitvals!
  
• 2009 Festival Dates: May 16 and 17, 2009 Featuring Jay O'Callahan, Gayle Ross, Doug Elliott,
  Judith Black and Antonio Rocha!
  
• 2008 Featured Tellers include Carol Birch, Derek Borrows, Baba Jamal Koram and Olga Loya and regional tellers
  Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy and Rick Huddle.
  
• How to purchase Tickets
  
• Map / Directions
  
• Download Press Release for 2008 Festival (PDF)
  

Kids' Study Trip
On the Study Trip page you can see photos of tellers and young people having fun and experiencing the joys of storytelling. You can also download PDF files with images, to share with your school and administrator, potential sponsors and others.

The Quilt
Learn and see many past quilts and quilters from the last 23 years!

Volunteer!
Email Pauline Hale or call her at (510) 525-5702. See our Volunteers' picture array.

Co-Sponsor
The Bay Area Storytelling Festival is co-sponsored by the East Bay Regional Park District. Thank you for supporting this marvelous parks district, the third largest in the country, which offers so much to us through its 66 parks.

Corporate Sponsors
We are pleased to receive generous support for the festival from Lifemark, a major partner, the New York Times, a sponsor, and Holiday Inn Express, San Pablo, official hotelier for the BASF!

www.lifemarkgroup.com

510- 965-1900 Code "BASF"

You too can become a sponsor of the Bay Area Storytelling Festival. Learn how!