OLLI Presents Storytelling by Adam Booth

This special storytelling event is free and open to everyone at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 at the Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville.

From OLLI:

OLLI is delighted to partner with Friends of the Weaverville Library to offer a festive storytelling event featuring well-known storyteller Adam Booth.  Adam Booth’s original stories blend traditional mountain folklore, music, and awareness of contemporary Appalachia. He has been featured at the International storytelling Center, the National Storytelling Conference, the National Storytelling Festival, the Appalachian Studies Association Conference, the National Academy of Medicine and has been a Spoken Word Resident at Banff Center (Alberta). He is a member of the Recording Academy and his recordings have received two Parents’ Choice Silver Honors and four Storytelling World Awards. He is a four time champion of the West Virginia Liars’ Contest. He will present a program from his Appalachian 20th Century Series, a cycle of original neo-traditional stories about “our people and their situations.”