SOMOS Presents: Taos Storytelling Festival Main Event

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Price: GA $20; 19 & Under FREE

Taos Center for the Arts

SOMOS presents

Taos Storytelling Festival Main Event

SAT, October 12, 7pm

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With storytellers Dr. Raymond Christian, ten time Moth award-winner, Regina Ress,  – best know for her Generosity and Grace: Stories from 9/11, and Cisco Guevara, Taos storyteller legend and owner of Los Rios River Runners, this year’s festival is sure to delight all audiences. The festival will also include a community storyteller selected from the Community Storytelling event on October 15, which is curated by Taoseña and SOMOS Board Member, Olivia Romo. “Social Justice” is the 2024 theme for this year’s festival.

Founded 26 years ago, The Taos Storytelling Festival has grown into one of the most exciting storytelling festivals in America. The inaugural festival in 1999, held in a tent in Kit Carson Park over three days, has evolved to a two-day festival with the main event on Saturday evening at the Taos Center for the Arts.The stories you’ll hear will make you laugh, smile, cry, chuckle, wonder, slap your knees, giggle, and applaud.

Storytellers

Dr. Raymond Christian

Ray’s stories have appeared in Readers Digest’s  Best Stories in America (2016) and  American Hero’s (2017) editions. He was selected as the 2017 Serenbe France Focus Storytelling Fellow (Atlanta, GA) and his stories have been featured on NPR radio shows such as The Moth Radio Hour, Snap Judgment, and Backstory as well as the Risk podcast, among many others.  As a competitive storyteller, Ray is a ten-time Moth Story Slam Champion, and winner of the 2016 National Storytelling Festival Story Slam. Sharing his stories across the US and Canada, Ray has made several appearances on Moth Mainstage, The National Storytelling Festival Exchange Place (2019) , and was part of the 2018 tour of Snap Judgment Live!

In 2018, Ray was named as the best known story teller in the south by Bitter Southerner magazine. Glynn Washington, host and producer of Snap Judgement, calls him “a storyteller’s storyteller.”  He is distinguished for his exceptional accomplishments as a performer and spoken word performer and his training and experience as an educator and motivator.

Ray is currently the producer and host of What’s Ray Saying, a podcast that utilizes history , storytelling and commentary to provide a unique perspective on the African American cultural experience.

Regina Ress

Award-winning storyteller, actor, and educator Regina Ress has performed programs in English and Spanish across the US, Europe, Latin America, and India, in venues from Broadway to Brazil, grade schools to senior centers, maximum security prisons to The White House. In 2016 she told her program, Compassion, Generosity, and Grace: Stories from 9/11 for SOMOS. Her CD of New York stories won a Storytelling World Honor award, and she is recipient of two National Storytelling Network Oracle Awards. Regina teaches Applied Storytelling at New YorkUniversity. Find out more about her work at reginaress.com.

Francisco “Cisco” Guevara guides white water raft trips on the Rio Grande and regales his adventurous passengers with stories of the wild.  He is a multi-generational New Mexican who came to Taos, he says, on the day he was born.  His stories draw on his Hispanic and Indian heritage and are “outrageous, but true.” He has been part of the Storytelling Festival since its inception.

For more about SOMOS and to see all the Storytelling Festival and  SOMOS events click here.

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