Selected Performances

“Once the emotions have been aroused then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response.”
Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder

          With wonder and awe, the enchantment of storytelling allows for the application of the creative imagination toward curriculum content.  The oldest of communication and educational tools, the shared story experience offers an excellent opportunity for the creation of community, narrative understanding and meaning.  Widely applicable and accessible to all ages and abilities, oral storytelling is central to the human experience and most importantly - fosters critical thinking, conflict resolution, character, emotional intelligence and students’ emotional investment in the curriculum content being presented.

Performances, Residencies & Workshops for
Schools, Libraries & Festivals & Museums

Selected programs, performances & presentations include:

School Assemblies  ~  Parent Teacher Associations  ~  Book Fairs

National Library Week  ~  Children’s Book Week

National Storytelling Week

Author’s Week  ~  Family Nights  ~  “No TV Week”

Summer Reading Programs  ~  Story & Craft Sessions

Residencies  ~  Workshops  ~  Inservices for Educators  &  Students

“Students were so captivated you could hear a pin drop. Preparing for their own Folktale Festival, Angela incorporated her wisdom about storytelling techniques into her web of storytelling, leaving the students inspired, guided and ready to tell to the fifth graders.”
Kimberly Cashin, Mountain View Middle School, Goffstown, NH

New England Conference on Storytelling for Children, Keene State College

Massachusetts Department of Education Title I Conference

Vermont Library Association Conference Endnote Speaker 

National Storytelling Conference

Nature in Legend & Story Conference

Granite State Reading Association  ~  Pond & Peak Reading Council

Northern Essex Community College

Sharing the Fire Storytelling Conference

Texas Storytelling Conference

Orange County Department of Education

UCLA Language Arts History Institute

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

“Enjoyable and entertaining, Angela truly knows the topic of storytelling and how storytelling can be easily incorporated into the classroom curriculum and benefit the reading achievement of all students.”
Beth Simpson, Pond & Peak Reading Council, NH

Children and The Arts Festival, Peterborough, NH

Virginia Storytelling Alliance’s LAUGHS Festival

Yukon International Storytelling Festival

Three Apples Storytelling Festival, MA

Texas Storytelling Festival  ~  Texas Folklife Festival

Imagination Celebration of Orange County

A Kennedy Center Affiliated Event

San Antonio Renaissance Fair

Los Angeles Shakespeare Family Festival

“Alternately wise and funny, silly and poignant.”
The Yukon News, Whitehorse, Yukon

Higgins Armory Museum

Higgins Faire - Worcester, MA

San Antonio Museum of Art - “Year of the Story” - Asian Wing

A National Endowment for the Arts Event

Witte Museum - “Water, Wind, Breath”

Four Corners Native American Exhibit

Witte Museum Science - Ongoing “Camp in Events”

McNay Museum - Family Day

The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio

Bower’s Children Museum - Santa Ana, CA - Docent Training

Festival of Archaeology - Santa Ana Heights, CA

“A rare talent, Angela engages the minds & imaginations of all ages - our exhibits truly come alive.” 
Siri Lindholm, Mangager of Science Programs, Witte Museum, TX

“Impressed with her extensive repertoire and knowledge of cross-cultural folktales, Angela provided the docents with so much inspiration and insight into the orator’s art.”
Dottie Weingarten, Program Chair, Bower’s Museum, CA

© Angela C. Klingler, The Storyteller

Updated 3/30/2006