8th Annual Hearing Voices Storytelling Festival

Tigard Public Library will be the kick-off library this year for the 8th annual Hearing Voices Storytelling Festival, which runs April 7-14 during National Library Week.  This year National Library Week will be clebrated with the theme "You Belong @ Your Library..."  The storytelling festival features professional storytellers representing 13 performances throughout the week at libraries across Washington County.

The kick-off will be on April 7th  at 1 p.m. in the Community Room with performances by two of the featured storytellers, Leslie Slape from Rainier, OR telling a story called " The Honeygirl" and Habiba Addo from Portland and originally from Ghana with the telling of "Sugar Cane--A Caribbean Rapunzel". 

Click here for a complete schedule of events and for additional information regarding the festival, which also includes a storytelling workshop and a story swap at the Tualatin Public Library on April 14th.

Admission is free and the program is designed for adults and children ages 6+.