April 14, 2009

THE 29TH ANNUAL TAMPA-HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY STORYTELLING FESTIVAL IS SATURDAY!

Attention School Media Specialists, Teachers, Youth Leaders, and Parents. Hillsborough County is gearing up for its Twenty-Ninth Annual Storytelling Festival!

The culminating festival will be held April 18, 2009, from 9 am - 4 pm. This year the festival will be returning to its traditional Tampa home, Hillsborough High School, located at 5000 N Central Ave. in Tampa. The festival is FREE and open to the public.

In addition to this year’s Featured Storyteller, Donald Davis, the festival also presents hundreds of school-aged Festival Quality Storytellers, regional storytellers of all ages, balladeers, puppets, storybook characters, and much, much more!

This event is produced by the Tampa-Hillsborough County Storytelling Committee, the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System, the City of Tampa Recreation Department, and the Creative Arts Theater with the support of the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners.

For more information about these and other FREE programs @ your library®, please call (813) 273-3652 or visit hcplc.org.