About this event
In keeping with an official proclamation by the Governor-General last year, National Storytelling Day will be celebrated on Friday, November 20. It falls on the fifth day of the four-year-old annual storytelling festival, which runs, this year, from November 16 to 21. It will be officially launched at Portmore Community College, St Catherine, on its second day.
The festival will feature islandwide activities and closes with a Gi Laugh Fi Peas Soup concert at Montego Bay Community College, St James.
Festival founder and director Amina Blackwood Meeks said at a planning session last week that she was particularly pleased that the Jamaica Library Service has given the festival “its blessings and support”. Consequently, parish libraries throughout the island will be participating in festival activities.
Festival Schedule
– Nov. 16 – Display on the theme, Storytelling as a Teaching Methodology, at Allman Town Primary, Alvernia Preparatory and Denham Town Primary schools.
– Nov. 17 – Opening ceremony at Portmore Community College. Ananse Goes to College workshops and performances.
– Nov 18 – Duppy Story Time, organised by the Excelsior Community College School of the Performing Arts at Hollywell.
– Nov 19 – Ananse Goes to College. St Joseph’s Teachers’ College, with stories in song, dance and drama at 11 a.m. Lunch Hour Labrish on the deck with performances and panel discussions at EMCVPA at 2:00 p.m.
– Nov 20 – Ananse Goes to the Library, at all parish libraries. Ananse Goes to School at schools islandwide.
– Nov 21 Gi Laugh Fi Peas Soup, at Montego Bay Community College, at 7 p.m.