The 2nd Annual Gulf Coast Storytelling Festival dates released

WHAT
The Gulf Coast Storytelling Festival is a series of six storytelling concerts featuring three national level, professional storytellers and a Storytelling Workshop to be held over two days in Fairhope, Alabama.

WHERE
The Festival will be held under the tent and stars on Mobile Bay on the south beach of the Fairhope City Pier in Fairhope, Alabama.

WHEN
Student Concerts: Friday, Sept. 24, 2004 8:30am, 10am, 1pm
Student tickets: $2
Public Concerts: Friday, Sept.24, 2004: 7 pm Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004: 1pm, 7pm
Adults: $10, Chidren (8 and under) $5,
All Three Concerts: $25
Storytelling Workshop: Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004: 10am - 12pm, $15 (approved for Baldwin County Teacher In-Service Credit)

WHO
The three professional, national level storytellers to be featured at the Festival will be Gay Ducey of San Francisco, CA, Patrick Ball of Sebastopol, CA and Wanda Johnson of Prichard, AL.

HOW
The Gulf Coast Storytelling Festival is a production of Gulf Coast Storytelling, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation based in Daphne Alabama.

WHY
In accordance with its mission, Gulf Coast Storytelling produces this festival to promote the art and literature of storytelling. Storytelling is not only the pre-cursor to reading and writing, but, is the means by which we maintain our family and cultural traditions.

Gulf Coast Storytelling's mission is to promote storytelling and story-listening in all its forms and fashions by hosting events, helping tellers manage their careers and collecting stories of geographical and historical interest to the northern gulf coast area of the United States of America.

The Gulf Coast Storytelling Festival is endorsed by the Alabama Center for the Book.

Gulf Coast Storytelling
1203 US Hwy 98, Suite 4-E
Daphne, AL 36526
251-626-9997; fax
Visit our web site: www.gulfcoaststorytelling.com