Sierra Storytelling Festival

06/17/2025

We are gearing up for the Queen of Storytelling Festivals in TWO weeks!!!
The Sierra Storytelling Festival returns for its 38th year with another internationally acclaimed lineup of featured storytellers. This year’s festival will be held at the North Columbia Schoolhouse amphitheater on Friday, June 27th and Saturday, June 28th. Lovers of the spoken word will gather under the tall pines to hear the ancient art of storytelling brought to life by a diverse group of master artists.

The featured tellers are:

Dovie Thomason, W***y Claflin, Jasmin Cardenas, Sheila Arnold, & Tim Ereneta!!
Our guest teller is Bob Jenkins & our local teller is Rowen White!!!

06/27/2024

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All the fun starts tomorrow!
June 28: History is no Mystery workshop with Eth-Noh-Tec (1-4)
Children's Storyhour with Diane Ferlatte (4-5), Local Teller Shirley Dickard (5:15-5:45) EVENING GALA with Dianne Ferlatte, Bil Lepp, Eth-Noh-Tec, Gayle Ross, Archy Jamjun and Tom Wade!(7:30-10)
June 29:Open Telling for all (9-10), 1 hour with each Featured Teller throughout the day, StorySlam-Course Correction- (5:30-6:30) and another EVENING GALA with all featured Tellers +Tom Wade(7:30-10)

06/24/2024

Win a hand made salad set or year of the dragon quilt at the Sierra Storytelling Festival on June 28 & 29!
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06/21/2024

The 37th Annual Sierra Storytelling Festival is on June 28 & 29, 2024. Featuring Bil Lepp, Diane Ferlatte, Eth-Noh-Tec, Gayle Ross and Archy Jamjun.

The hand picked group of diverse tellers come from throughout the continent, to tell tales from different times, lifestyles and situations that will broaden your horizons, increase your empathy and tickle your fancy. Using a variety of techniques including music, dance, humor and candor, these masters of the art of storytelling bring messages from other worlds, experiences and ways of life. They evoke powerful emotions and insights that build bridges for the audience to satisfy a hunger to connect with others, both familiar and unknown.

Home Page       37th ANNUAL SIERRA STORYTELLING FESTIVAL June 28 & 29, 2024 Early Bird Tickets on Sale Now!   Called the Queen of Storytelling Festivals, the 37th annual Sierra Storytelling Festival will be held the last weekend in June: June 28th & 29th, on Friday and Saturday. It kicks off wit...

06/17/2024

37th annual Sierra Storytelling Festive welcomes Diane Ferlatte!
For tickets: www.sierrastorytellingfestival.org
Diane Ferlatte has been researching, collecting and telling stories for over thirty-five years. Diane has frequently been a featured storyteller at many festivals in the U.S. and throughout the world. Among her most memorable events is her performance for President Clinton at his Inauguration! Erik Pearson has been accompanying Diane for over 25 years, and will be joining us at this years' Festival.

06/14/2024

SSF is thrilled to have Eth-Noh-Tec on the stage June 28 & 29! Plus a workshop with these amazing artists: History is no Mystery.
For tickets and info- www.sierrastorytellingfestival.org
Eth-Noh-Tec is an Asian American kinetic storytelling non-profit founded by Nancy Wang and Robert KIkuchi-Yngojo . Using movement, music and stylized gesture, they perform stories that provide values and messages that are Asian specific and universal at the same time, building cultural bridges that celebrate diversity and create compassionate communities through the art of storytelling. This year they will be performing with their intern, Yuriko Takata.

06/12/2024

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We are happy to welcome Gayle Ross, a Cherokee teller from Oklahoma to join Diane Ferlatte, Bil Lepp, Eth-Noh-Tec and Archy Jamjun on the Sierra Stage.

Gayle Ross is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and a direct descendant of John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee during the infamous “Trail of Tears”. Her grandmother told stories and it is from this rich Native American heritage that Gayle’s storytelling springs.
During the past twenty-five years, Gayle has become one of the best-loved and most respected storytellers to emerge from the current surge of interest in this timeless art form.

06/12/2024

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Just a few weeks away!!!

The 37th annual Sierra Storytelling Festival will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 28 & 29 at the North Columbia Schoolhouse in rural Nevada County- a 30 minute drive from Nevada City.  In a world of highspeed data and media overload, we create a slow weekend full of stories told in the old fas...

06/10/2024

The Sierra Storytelling Festival is thrilled to bringARCHY JAMJUN to our stage for the first time!
Archy Jamjun is the curator of Outspoken LGBTQ Stories at Sidetrack in Chicago. He first started storytelling at a Moth Story Slam in 2014 and went on to win two Grand Slams in Chicago as well as being featured on their podcast and mainstage shows. His solo show A BOY & A DIVA debuted in 2019 at the Fillet of Solo Storytelling Festival in Chicago and his writing has been published by Barrel House and Chicago Magazine. Last year he was featured in The Future of Comedy Festival in Chicago. When he isn't storytelling Archy enjoys tennis, theater (especially musicals), and time with his friends, family, and cat.
For tickets and more info: www.sierrastorytellingfestival.org

06/07/2024

Sierra Storytelling Festival's Local Teller: Shirley Dickard
Friday, June 28th
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Shirley is a fourth generation Californian whose ancestors came to the Yuba watershed in 1850 in search of gold. In the 1970s. Shirley and her husband Richard came to the Yuba River to build a self-sufficient homestead along with a small community of back-to-the-landers. In 2020, at the age of 74, she wrote her first novel Heart Wood – Four Women, for the Earth, for the Future, drawing from her background as a gardener, naturalist, local school nurse, writer, historian, community-builder, and editor of the community newspaper. She has learned that while agencies learn from studies, communities learn from stories. Heart Wood is her way of sharing our stories of idealism, struggle, and hope while living with the past, present, and future of the place we call home.

06/07/2024

Getting ready for 8th grade Graduation! North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center Grizzly Hill School

06/03/2024

Come hear Bil Lepp tell tall tales at the Sierra Storytelling Festival on June 28 & 29!
Growing up in a family where the truth was fluid, Bil became adept at spinning tales and exaggerating circumstances at an early age. A nationally renowned storyteller and five time champion of the West Virginia Liars’ Contest, Bil’s outrageous, humorous tall-tales and witty stories have earned the appreciation of listeners of all ages and from all walks of life.
More info & Tickets at
www.sierrastorytellingfestival.org