Event: Azalea Storytelling Festival
Date: March 4th, 5th, and 6th of 2016
Featuring: Donald Davis, Michael Reno Harrell, Barbara McBride Smith, Ed Stivender and Carol Cain
Lodging
Held the first weekend in March each year in LaGrange, Georgia, the Azalea Storytelling Festival (ASF) keeps the art of storytelling alive and vibrant, provides a high quality family event and is an integral part of the community’s goal to make Troup County an arts destination. The Festival draws approximately 2,500 people each year, with almost 200 patrons attending from 23 states and several foreign countries.
Founded in 1997, the ASF has become a model of community organization, cooperation, and collaboration, and continues to see some of Georgia’s and the nation’s premier storytellers on its stage. The organizations, which support this superb event, are the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Development Authority, West Georgia Technical College, the Troup County School System, LaGrange Tourism Bureau, and LaGrange College.
In celebration of ASF’s 20th anniversary year, Donald Davis, featured storyteller, in the 2016 ASF event (March 4-6) will also be making additional visits to area schools in the days leading up to start of the festival. Listed below is a tentative schedule of events at the participating schools (this is an additional cost to us) and the ASF main event at LaGrange College:
8:30 a.m. Long Cane Elementary
10:30 a.m. West Point Elementary
1:30 p.m. Rosemont Elementary
11:15 a.m. LaGrange College
7:00 p.m. Memorial Library
10 -11:00 a.m. Senior Center
12:00-1:00 p.m. Joint Civic Clubs meeting (Optimist, Lions, Rotary, and Kiwanis Clubs)
5:00 p.m. First Presbyterian dinner
6:15 p.m. First Presbyterian storytelling session
12 noon TLC, Lunch Meeting, FUMC
3:30 p.m. Twin Cedars
5:30 p.m. Azalea Dinner, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
8:30 a.m. Callaway Elementary
10:30 a.m. Hogansville Elementary
11:30 a.m. St. Peter's Catholic Church, Ed Stivender
7:30 p.m. Azalea Storytelling Festival begins
7:30 P.M.
Donald Davis
Michael Reno Harrell
Barbara McBride-Smith
Ed Stivender
9:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
Storytelling Concert presented by
Donald Davis
Michael Reno Harrell
Barbara McBride-Smith
Ed Stivender
11:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M.
Lunch (Shuttle bus to downtown restaurants will be provided.)
2:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
Storytelling Concert presented by:
Donald Davis
Michael Reno Harrell
Barbara McBride-Smith
Ed Stivender
4:30 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.
Dinner (Shuttle bus to downtown restaurants will be provided.)
7:30 P.M.
Storytelling Concert presented by
Donald Davis
Michael Reno Harrell
Barbara McBride-Smith
Ed Stivender
8:30 A.M. - 9:30 A.M. Coffee & donuts
Dulcimer Troupers
9:30 A.M. – 10:40 A.M.
Sacred Storytelling
Donald Davis, Michael Reno Harrell,
Barbara McBride-Smith and Ed Stivender
10:50 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
More Sacred Storytelling
Donald Davis, Michael Reno Harrell,
Barbara McBride-Smith and Ed Stivender
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