Start of month of Sivan on the Hebrew calendar

Storytelling for Children, a one-day festival celebrating oral traditions, gateways to literacy, universal human expression, and new tales to tell. Hosted at the MOST and led by Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas, this event will showcase storytellers of multiple cultural traditions, and a live-taping and video recording of a new Grimm Fairy tale led by master storyteller and popular children’s podcast host of Grim, Grimmer, Grimmest, Adam Gidwitz. Adam Gidwitz is a Jewish author and storyteller who has a modern take on retelling classic fairy tales. This includes the removal of anti-semitic tropes. He is also the author of a book about a young Jewish boy named Max in 1940’s London who is accompanied by kobold and a dybbuk. Bringing Gidwitz to Syracuse and creating a storytelling festival around his work displays the very best of the evolving cultural framework of fairy tales and folk lore. He upholds the universality of oral storytelling for children of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and is inspired by the use of storytelling to propel literacy. Adam will be joined at this event by 4-6 other storytellers and artists; Jewish maggids, African folk storyists, refugees, and illustrators. These professionals will be joined by volunteers who […]