Story Telling Festival

Harvesting Yarns, Storytelling, Bush Poetry,
Folktelling thru Music, Audio Recordings, Bookstalls,
Meet Authors and buy their books.

By Tania Neville  

The second Eudunda Storytelling Festival will take place in the historic mid north town on November the 10^th 2007 in the towns Centenary Gardens.

Storytelling Festival Committee Chairman Marcus Reseigh said the event will be opened by local children’s author Rosanne Hawke and feature bush poets such as Jill Wherry, Anne Rogers and Bryan Cullen.

“This is a unique event in Australia and these festivals are becoming very popular in the USA and England” he said.

Storytelling Festival Committee organizer Kirsty Dudley said the festival grew out of a need to identify with Eudunda’s link to famous author Colin Thiele, who was born here and grew up in the surrounding districts.

“The event promises a historical and family orientated outing with participants from the Storytelling Guild of South Australia and The Bush Poets Society” she said.

Ms Dudley said the crowd will be entertained by a myriad of local and statewide talent with stories, music, culture, poetry and dance, infused with multiculturalism.

The festival will be held in the beautiful centenary gardens featuring the recently bronzed Colin Thiele statue and newly completed Kids Scrub and commences at eleven am.

Storytelling Festival Committee Secretary Pat Matthew said the chosen date precedes the 110^th Eudunda Annual district show on November the 11^th so it will make a great weekend for families.

Ms Dudley said the event was so popular last year that funding was more forth coming with sponsorship from Goyder Electrical, Eudunda Business and Tourism committee, Eudunda Foodland, Merrina Poll Hereford Stud, Regional Partnerships Project and Events SA.

The organizers said there will be a special Kids Zone tent and patrons will need to bring a chair or blanket.

Lunch, snacks and Devonshire teas will be available but the organizers hope that patrons will avail themselves to the host of local traders in the town.