At the Kearney Area Storytelling Festival, professional storytellers—along with area tellers—present the art of storytelling.

Storyteller Lyn Ford will present a storytelling workshop entitled “Laughter and Storytelling! Interactive Stories and Play!” at the Regional Engagement Center
in UNK’s University Village Development – Upstairs Gala Rooms. Parking is available on both sides of the building.

Lynette (Lyn) Ford, an American storyteller, teaching artist, author and creative narrative workshop presenter was the first storyteller in the state of Ohio to be nominated for a Governor’s Award for the Arts. She is a regular performer at regional and national storytelling festivals and conferences, including the National Storytelling Festival, Hawaii’s Talk Story Festival and the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival. Lyn has also shared keynote presentations, performances and workshops in Australia and Ireland, and for the Transformative Language Arts Network’s and Ohio Literacy Resource Center’s annual conferences and events. Lyn is a two-time recipient of the National Storytelling Network’s ORACLE award, receiving both its Leadership and Service and Circle of Excellence awards. Lyn is a member of the National Association of Black Storytellers Circle of Elders. Lyn’s first publications as an individual author are Affrilachian Tales and Beyond the Briar Patch. Both books are compilations of stories from Lyn’s childhood memories, enriched with information on Affrilachian culture. She has written several other books alone and has been a co-author on other books.

Please visit the Kearney Area Storytelling Festival website for the full range of events in Kearney.