Get ready for Menlo Park’s 11th annual Storytelling Festival

The 11th Annual Menlo Park Storytelling Festival, featuring nine free events, will take place between September 27 and November 21.

This year’s celebration introduces two tellers new to the city library’s “stage.” Kenyan-born Clara Kamunde will be the inaugural performer on September 27, and Hana Baba (a name familiar to many locals for her award-winning journalism for KALW radio) will share folktales from Sudan on October 18.

And you’ll get to  meet the wife of Mahatma Gandi on October 3, as Chautauqua scholar Roopa Mohan introduces Kasturba Ghandi in a performance that allows us to ask questions of the peace activist.

A storytelling workshop with drama teacher Enid Davis on Nov. 15 will let attendees explore the art —perhaps event preparing the brave to contribute to the closing Tellabration! ™ on Nov. 21.

Those events, and four more, are all free, thanks to the Friends of the Menlo Park Library. Get more information  each event link including times, location, and age recommendation.

9/27: Clara Kamunde: Afri-Crafty Tales
10/3: Roopa Mohan presents Kasturba Gandhi
10/18: Hana Baba: Folktales from Sudan
10/27: Storytelling Meetup
11/5: John Weaver: Pumpkin Tales
11/12: StoryFest Online
11/16: Jeff Gere: True Supernatural Tales of Hawaii
11/21: Tellabration! ™