About the Festival
Stories for Everyone....
Three to One Hundred and Three
In 1998, Ocala held its first storytelling festival presented by a small group of enthusiastic and dedicated members of the Ocali Storytelling Guild and the Brick City Center for the Arts. The festival was host to 1,300 school children and story lovers from all over the community. With each successive festival the number of devotees has expanded and the festival has grown in richness and diversity. This year over 2300 students will attend the festival to hear every imaginable kind of story. Later, at the public concerts, audiences will be entertained and enlightened by tales from some of the best tellers the nation and this area have to offer. So come...feel welcome...and rediscover the magic of storytelling at the
13th Annual Ocala Storytelling Festival!
April 16th, 2010
The Stories
On several pages of this website you can hear stories from our local guild members. We hope you enjoy them...but if you need to stop the story, there is a button at the bottom of each page. These are the tellers and stories you are hearing:
Home: Don Leonard tells his story "Hen and Biddies"
General Information: Don tells his story "Deposit Bottles"
Festival Schedule: Jeremy Evans tells his story "Grandad and Cotton"