Schedule of Events:

8:30AM: Registration opens in Big Springs

Red Banks Room

9:00AM - 10:00AM: Storytelling: Mo Reynolds Stepping on Fears: Sea Urchins, Paintball, Cracked Pots, and Other Adventures
10:15 - 11:15AM: Storytelling: Paul Strickland TRUE FICTIONALIST: Reupholstered Folk Stories and Other Tall- Ternative Tales
11:30AM - 12:30PM: Storytelling: Dovie Thomason Silent Spring--A Remembrance of Rachel Carson, Pandemics, Extinctions, Birds, and Hope
1:45PM - 2:45PM: Storytelling: Ray Christian Life Reimagined
3:00 - 4:00PM: Storytelling: Bil Lepp
4:15 - 5:15PM: Storytelling/Music: Johnny Thomas Fowler Where’d You Come From, Where’d You Go?
6:30 - 7:45PM: Showcase of Regional Voices Naomi Faw, Johnny Thomas Fowler, Melanie Knauff, Nancy Tolson, and Jess Willis
8:00PM: Olio with Featured Tellers Bil Lepp, Dovie Thomason, Ray Christian, Mo Reynolds, and Paul Strickland

Blue Ridge Room

All day: workshops, storytelling, and quilt display
9:00AM - 10:00AM: Workshop: Johnny Thomas Fowler Storytelling: From Page to Stage
10:15 - 11:15AM: Workshop: Judy Baker Navigating the Wonderful World of Storytelling
11:30AM - 12:30PM: Storytelling (Local History): Zula Cox Stories from the African American Community of Texana, North Carolina
12:30PM - 1:30PM: Story Swap Drop in to listen or tell Facilitator: Leslie Shelley
1:45PM - 2:45PM: Storytelling: Naomi Faw and Nancy Tolson Children’s Stories for the Young and Young-at-Heart
5:15PM - 6:00PM: Special Event A Toast for Healing Facilitator: Amanda Lawrence

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