19th Annual Rockland County Storytelling Festival--November 16th

St. Thomas Aquinas College will co-sponsor the 19th Annual Rockland County Storytelling Festival on Sunday, November 16, 2014, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library in Garnerville (NY), announced Dr. Michael Shaw, Professor of Education at the College. This event is free and welcomes families, educators and the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

This multicultural event is designed to celebrate storytelling in the community. The event will feature Storytellers Elise Krakower, Julie Pasqual, Pamela Schembri, and Chuck Stead, as well as high school student tellers. There will also be Story Crafts for children.

This event is co-sponsored by St. Thomas Aquinas College, Rockland Teachers’ Center, Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library, Howard T. Phillips Jr. and The Town of Haverstraw Board, Union Restaurant and Bar Latino, Rockland Reading Council, Alexander Gromack, Supervisor—Town of Clarkstown, Green Meadow Waldorf School, Kastin and Newman Orthodontics, Jay M. Konigsberg, Esq., Peggy and Andrew Koval, ShopRite of Garnerville, and the Orchards of Concklin.

“The Rockland County Storytelling Festival is a joyful multicultural celebration of the power of story to light up the lives of children and all people. It is a free event with extraordinary tellers who enrich and enhance literacy,” said Shaw. “It is also hands on for young children who create Story Crafts. Rockland County Executive Edwin J. Day has proclaimed November 16, 2014 as ‘Storytelling Day in the County of Rockland’. Everybody has a story to tell. Come and enjoy the day,” Shaw added.

For more information and to register, contact Dr. Shaw at mshaw@stac.edu or 845-398-4079 or Deborah Studnitzer at the Rockland Teachers’ Center at dstudnitzer@optonline.net. Like the Festival on Facebook at RCNYStorytellingFestival.