Bay Area Storytelling Festival
The Bay Area Storytelling Festival is now in its 25th 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 650 middle schoolers to hear from featured tellers at the Grove.

• Download photos from this year's Festival!
  May 16-17, 2009 (PDF)
  
• View a webpage of photos from this year's Festival! May 16-17, 2009
  
• View a webpage of photos related to our outstanding volunteers.
  
• See photos from last year's Festival!
  May 17 & 18, 2008
  
• See a list of past festival performers over 25 Festivals!
  
• 2010 Festival Dates: May 22 and 23, 2010. Don't miss our 25th anniversary extravaganza!
• Map / Directions

• 2008 Featured Tellers were Carol Birch, Derek Borrows, Baba Jamal Koram and Olga Loya and regional tellers Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy and Rick Huddle.
  
• 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 and also our 2009 array of images.

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

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