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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 11pt;">PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt;"> Lisa Sibony, lisasibony@berkeley.net</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">On Friday, March 9, 2018 Berkeley High School students will attend a Storytelling Festival in our Little Theater.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">BHS teacher Alan Miller is looking for 10 volunteers in the afternoon from 12:55 until 3:30 to welcome and usher students into their seats, to pick up lost items afterward, and to be an adult presence.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">It is always a fun event with a diverse group of storytellers. Olga Loya, Charlie Chin and Awele Makeba will be our storytellers this year (see below for more information).</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Please let me know if you able to help out.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks very much,</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Lisa</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Latina storyteller, performance artist, writer and teacher,
</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Olga Loya</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> performs a mix of Spanish and English to share traditional tales from Latin America, as well as stories from her own varied and colorful life growing up in East Los
Angeles. Olga uses her voice, body, and sometimes music and dance, to draw her audience into the imaginative and surprising worlds of the tales she tells. Olga tells stories that support her beliefs that we can work together as a community, that we can learn
to be more compassionate with each other, that family is important, and that we can take the time to enjoy ourselves through stories and song. She performs and teaches workshops at a wide variety of locations including, schools, businesses, museums and festivals,
such as the Guadalajara, Mexico Festival and the Jonesborough National Storytelling Festival. Olga was the recent recipient of the</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">National Network</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of Storytellers 2013 Oracle Award in The Circle of Excellence.</span></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Charlie Chin,</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> writer, musician, historian, currently works at the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He is a student of the late Storytelling Master, Leong Chi Ming of Toisan, China.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Using the scholars gown, the folding fan, and the techniques of classical Chinese storytelling he presents the folktales, legends, and teaching stories of ancient China.</span></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Awele Makeba
</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">has mesmerized audiences around the world including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria; the Suriname and Costa Rican rainforest; and Tsinchu Teacher's College in Taiwan.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She is an award winning and internationally known storyteller, recording artist, educator and she's also a Community Producer of Cultural Programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She paints pictures with words, breathes life into characters, teaches, and inspires through the power of story--personal tales, history, folklore and children's literature. Makeba who has made it her life's work to tell
history through the words of its oft-forgotten witnesses, wrote two one-woman shows, Rage Is Not A 1-Day Thing! and I'm Not Getting Up Until Jim Crow Gets Off, in which Makeba tells the story of the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott through the eyes of four women,
Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith, Rosa Parks and JoAnn Robinson.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her award winning CDs include: Tell That Tale Again, Trailblazers: African Americans in the California Gold Rush,This Land Is Your Land (Music for Little People)and The Undiscovered Explorer: Imagining York (OPB). Film
credits include Supervisor Ella Hill Hutch in the Oscar award winning film, MILK directed by Gus Van Sant starring Sean Penn.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ms. Makeba's most recent stage appearances include the Gallo Center for the Performing Arts, Omaha Storytelling Camp, and a 3rd return engagement to the Vienna, Austria Storytelling Festival 2010.</span></span></p>
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