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Show New Utah Thursday, August 29. 2002 - Page 13 Jimpanogos Storytelling Festival begins tomorrow at the mouth of Provo Canyon By Linda Butler Attending the Timpanogos Storytelling Story-telling Festival is like taking a magical journey through space and time without with-out ever leaving Utah. It's a perfect weekend retreat for people of all ages. This year marks the 13th annual festival. Begun in 1990 by Karen Ash-ton Ash-ton and the Friends of the Orem Public Pub-lic Library, and held at the Ashton home and garden for the first six years, the festival has grown to fill the Olmsted at the mouth of Provo Canyon. An 'estimated 13,000 people will attend the festival on Friday and Saturday. Sat-urday. Featured national storytellers include Willy Claflin, Donald Davis, Carmen Deedy, Rex Ellis, Beth Horner, Jay O'Callahan, Laura Per-shin, Per-shin, The Storycrafters (Jerri Burns and Barry Marshall), and Betty Ann Wylie. Regional and local tellers will also be featured. Storytelling is far more than "once upon a time" bedtime stories and fairy tales. Storytelling seems simple, yet carries profound messages. Barbara Home, steward of the School Library Journal said, "Storytelling "Story-telling is. . . direct, powerful, one-to one communication. . . It is nothing more than the majesty of simple words conveying fear and dignity, courage and compromise, bitter loneliness loneli-ness and lasting love." Storytelling brings faraway times and places up close and personal. Laugh with master storyteller Donald Davis as he recalls the follies and foibles of his family and friends as he grew up in the Appalachian mountains. moun-tains. Follow Carmen Deedy and her family as they emigrate from Cuba to the United States; laugh and cry with her as she tells how her family learns to fit in their new surroundings. Gain insight and wisdom through Larua Pershin's Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Span-ish, Jewish, and Palestinian tales. In addition to storytelling, there will be musical entertainment, folk artists, jugglers, fencing demonstrations, demonstra-tions, puppet shows and a food court. Storytelling resources ranging from books and tapes to puppets are also available. The Olmsted is a beautiful, shady area nestled beside the Provo River at the mouth of Provo Canyon. It's a perfect per-fect location for the large outdoor tents where the storytellers perform. The daytime storytelling sessions run from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Olmsted is located at 1600 North and 800 East in Orem. Parking for the festival is available at two churches on 800 North, at 575 E. or 670 E. Free continuous shuttle service is provided. Parking is available south on University Uni-versity Avenue. A short walk along the Provo River Parkway path brings guests to the entrance. Handicapped parking is available at the Olmsted entrance. Evening sessions include "Bedtime Stories" at the Olmsted at 6:30 p.m. and Friday's "Laughing Night" and Saturday's "My Favorite Stories" at 8:30 the SCERA shell (pre-show music begins at 7:30), 600 South State in Orem. Tickets for the festival can be purchased pur-chased at the door. A full-event pass for two days and evenings of performances perform-ances is $40 for adults and $25 for children 12 and under. A family pass, $100, admits five family members to all performances. A one-day ticket is $20 for adults and $15 for children. Tickets to evening performances are $8 for all ages. Kala Jojo spins his magic at last year's Timpanogos Storytelling Sto-rytelling Festival. Fire prevention kits available online Wildfires have scorched approximately six million acres this year, increasing interest in fire prevention education programs. To meet the demand for classroom class-room programs, a newly-developed newly-developed teacher's kit is now available online. The kits have already been distributed dis-tributed to more than 15,000 schools nationwide. The kit is targeted at students stu-dents from kindergarten to fifth grade. Its objectives are to educate children ages four to 11 about how wildfires wild-fires start, how they can prevent a wildfire, and to create familiarity and enthusiasm among children about Smokey Bear, his friends and his message about wildlife prevention. The Smokey N Da Boyz kits were developed by Lifetime Life-time Learning Systems, Inc., in coordination with the Ad Council, National Association of State Foresters and the USDA Forest Service. The program meets the National Science Content Standards in: Life Science (Organisms and their Environments) and Science in Personal and Social Perspective (Types of Resources and Changes in Environments). The kits are free and available to download for teachers andor parents, at Smokey Bear's website, www.smokeybear.com. For more information on the Smokey N" Da Boyz kit, call the Uinta National Forest For-est Supervisor's Office, 801-377-5780. American Fork Symphony to begin rehearsals, invites new members to join Rehearsals for the 2002-2003 2002-2003 season of the American Ameri-can Fork Symphony will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7, in the American Fork Junior High School auditorium, 1120 N. 20 West. Under the direction of conductor Diane Soelberg, the orchestra will give its first concert Monday, Oct. 28 in the American Fork High School auditorium. There are openings for strings players, especially the lower strings, as well as for percussion and brass instruments. Players interested inter-ested in joining the sympho ny, or for more information should contact Maxine Steele at 756-2330. The orchestra welcomes players of all orchestral instruments. instru-ments. In October, the concert will feature music by Bach, Rossini, Anderson, Hoist, Mussorgsky, Lerner and Lowe and E.E. Bagley. The Christmas concert is scheduled sched-uled for Monday, Dec. 9. The program will include Christmas carol arrangements arrange-ments and other selected Christmas melodies. The next concert will be Monday, Feb. 24. The con cert repertoire for this concert con-cert will be announced later. The spring concert on April 14 will again feature youth soloist audition winners. The 70-member symphony sympho-ny has expanded its membership mem-bership to include Utah County players from Payson to Lehi, and also to Heber and Salt Lake City. The members give of their talents tal-ents for the enjoyment of making beautiful music. The symphony has reached a high level of performance and has received much acclaim. This past season the orchestra has played to standing room only audiences. audi-ences. The American Fork Symphony Sym-phony is sponsored by the American Fork Arts Council in conjunction with American Ameri-can Fork City, the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. 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