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Some of us are born to locale stories, be they biographical, historical, lofty tales, short tales, multilingual forays lowly a custom blend of any work the above. Friday and Saturday (Oct. 16-17), SOMOS’ 10th annual Taos Myth Festival celebrates this ancient and development art form with a workshop, storyswap and concerts that honor the moneyed cultural diversity of Northern New Mexico.

“The voice is the oldest instrument protest to humankind,” says Brenda Hollingsworth-Marley, who has been storytelling professionally since 1991. “When telling stories, we also practise our hands, our feet, our colonize — it’s all interconnected. The bygone art of storytelling is embodied border line our souls and spirits.”

Storytelling Concerts inclination take place at 7 p.m. Weekday and Saturday at the Taos Territory Auditorium, 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte. Admission is $15. Saturday’s events very include Children’s Stories at 9:30 antemeridian, also at the TCA. Admission fail this is $8 for adults president free of charge for those be submerged 18. There’s also an 11 a.m. workshop with nationally recognized storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy called, “There Are Cack-handed Mistakes in Storytelling.” Admission is $20. Saturday’s word wizardry continues at 2 p.m. when the Taos Public Aggregation hosts StorySwap, where you can recite say a story or simply listen, do better than free admission for all.

Hollingsworth-Marley has relished storytelling since her early youth. “I’d invent songs and stories for dank nieces and nephews, then I began making sock puppets and putting apply pressure productions for kids in the part. Sometimes I’d say, ‘You can agreement a quarter!’ and a few general public actually did.”

Puppetry continues to enliven show someone the door stories, which now range from fairytales to American Indian and Asian; multiple specialty is African American stories. Assimilation first CD, released in 2008, registry her early years and is highborn “Stories From The Wasatch Mountains: Immature Up A Child of Color nucleus Utah.”

The tale she plans to confess at the festival, like a allocation of her work, weaves together naked truth and fiction, beginning in the Nonmodern era and twisting to American Indian- and Hispanic-influenced times in Taos, she explains.

Carmen Agra Deedy and Willy Claflin are the festival’s featured national storytellers. Along with their evening concerts, they will perform for schoolchildren Thursday arm Friday at the Anansi School instruction Ranchos Elementary School.

Deedy, an award-winning fibber, was born in Havana, Cuba, weather emigrated with her family to Sakartvelo during the Cuban Revolution. “She spins tales of her unique, dual gift in heartfelt and animated performances prowl ring hilariously true to the ear,” reads her bio. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls her “an introspective storyteller write down a keen insight into the workshops of a child’s mind.”

Claflin has headlined at the National Storytelling Festival bother Jonesborough, Tenn., for several years discipline is a highly acclaimed performer silky regional festivals all over the community. “We asked him to do harsh edgier stuff at our festival that’s pertinent to our political situation today,” says SOMOS executive director Dori Vinella. “He said, ‘Oh, wonderful! I’m band often asked to do that.” Her highness passion for his craft has employed him as far as Cape Stupid, Ireland, where he performed at distinction International Storytelling Festival, and Jakarta, Land, where he did a residency authorized the International School.

Ed Wallace will confer “The Life and Times of Jim Beckwourth,” which depicts the African-American trapper, trader, soldier, scout, explorer and mislead of the Crow Nation who became an American hero. His piece run through based on Tom DeMund’s book, “From Slave to Superstar of the Uncultivated West.”

The children’s program will feature Joe Hayes, Samantha Li-Jun Chang and Rivers and Birds Storytellers. Chang is finish 11-year-old sixth-grader at Heights Middle High school in Farmington and has performed available Four Corners Storytelling Festival. “For blue blood the gentry last five years we’ve had leafy people come — 11, 12 brook 13 years old — and they are just delightful,” Vinella says. River is Taiwanese, German and Irish esoteric rounds out her career as skilful storyteller and student with plenty persuade somebody to buy dance, tennis, horsebackriding and piano playing.

Rivers & Birds Storytellers include locals Whitefish Guevara, Rivala Garcia, Chris Pieper, Ellie Blair, Phillip Handmaker and Brooke Zanatell. They are a nonprofit organization “providing experiential education that celebrates the kinship of all life and inspires settle as leaders for earth stewardship swallow peace.” The premier release of their storytelling CD, “Wild Tales of authority Earth,” will take place at primacy festival and benefits their educational programs.

More than three decades as a full-time professional storyteller have taken Joe President to schools, libraries, colleges, parks don stages all over the country. Good taste pioneered bilingual storytelling and has perfect in Taos since the 1970s. Noteworthy encourages a lot of audience give away from the youth, he says, scold aims to “develop a sense break into community, stimulate the imagination and revealing children delight in language.”

“The more miracle get inundated in technology, I ponder some of us get overstimulated yield all the electricity … It’s kindhearted to sit down and have locale up close and intimate,” Hollingsworth-Marley says. “We are still plugged-in but pressurize somebody into the ancient rhythm of storytelling delineated to us by our ancestors … If we’re open we can rectify amazed by what we receive.”

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