November 3, 2022 - Teacher/Coach storytelling workshop
Learn from professional storytellers on how to coach students to perform and tell stories.
Missed the workshop? email secampbell@dsdmail.net for a video from the 2021-2022 workshop.
November 2022 - January 2023 - Individual School Storytelling Festivals
- Coaches/Teachers will encourage student storytellers participation from their school, coach them to write and perform a story, and hold a mini-storytelling festival at their school. The program for the festival will be determined by the coaches and any volunteers.
- We encourage Dual Language Immersion Schools to hold a mini- storytelling festival in their immersion language.
- All participating schools are encouraged to have students participate as a virtual storyteller (perform a story via video recording).
- Coaches will train judges to understand the criteria for judging from the storytelling judging form below.
- Two students from participating schools will be selected by their judges to perform at the DSD Storytelling Festival on Jan. 19, 2023.
Click here to Register two students
from your school by Jan. 13, 2023
January 19, 2023 - DSD Storytelling Festival
- Location: Shoreline Junior High (Band and Choir rooms), 6:30p - 8:30p
- Two students selected from participating schools will perform for family and friends.
- Judges will select 18 students to perform at the WSU Storytelling Festival on March 1, 2023, 2 students for the Bilingual Session on February 27, 2023, and for the Virtual session (date TBD).
February 17, 2023 - Student Storyteller Coaching
- Location: Kendall Building, 2nd Floor (PDC training rooms), 5:30p - 7:30p
- Who: DSD Student Storytellers selected by judges from the DSD Storytelling Festival.
- What: Professional Utah Storytellers will observe each student performing their story and provide tips, insight, and recommendations in preparation for their performance at the WSU Storytelling Festival.
- Information will be sent to students, parents and coaches.
February 27, 2023 - WSU Bilingual Storytelling Festival, 10:30 am session
- Location: Weber State University, Shepherd Union Building
- Schools may register their class to watch student and adult storytellers perform in various languages.
- Schools will schedule their own buses. The Davis Education Foundation donated funds to cover some of the transportation fees.
- Two bilingual DSD student storytellers will be selected to perform (storyteller families are invited).
Click here to register
a class by Dec. 20, 2022
March 1, 2023- WSU- Davis Storytelling Festival
- Three session times are available: 9:30-10:20, 10:30-11:20, 11:30-12:20
- 18 selected DSD Student Storytellers will perform (storyteller families are invited).
- Schools will schedule their own buses. The Davis Education Foundation donated funds to cover some of the transportation fees.
- Please submit a separate registration for each class attending.
Click here to register
a class by Dec. 20, 2022
Please encourage bilingual student storytellers to participate from your school. All languages are welcomed!
They will have a chance to perform at the:
WSU Storytelling Festival
Bilingual Session
Monday, Feb. 27, 2023
10:30am
We also need 3 students who are willing to perform for the virtual portion of the WSU Storytelling Festival.
Selected virtual storytellers will be filmed at the WSU Campus in January (date TBD).
