March 8, 2015: Karin Werner and Dana Sherry
Family Stories from 1-2.30, free and open to the
public.
Seminar discussion from 2.30-4. $20 drop in, $120 for the eight-week series, $100 for SAC members
The Silk Road House continues live storytelling
sessions which will bring you and your children on an imaginary journey to the
magical world of fairy tales and epic stories once wildly popular along the
historical Silk Roads.
Join us as Karin Werner takes us and the hero Mamai on two journeys,
as he encounters both jeztyrnaks, monsters with iron claws for hands, and
fairy-like peri "The Jeztyrnaks, the Peri, and Mamai." Dana Sherry
will tell “The Slipper, the Magic Ring, and the Branches,” where a jigit in
distress discovers just how dangerous peris can be. In the end, who is the most
monstrous of all? These tales are spooky and scary, so for this session only
we’re suggesting the age limit --the program is best for kids 8 and up.
In February and March, we are offering a special
eight-week storytelling series that presents newly translated Kazakh fairy
tales, told for the first time in English. Each session will feature a
storytelling performance for all ages, followed by a seminar discussion for
adults connecting the stories to Kazakh folk culture led by Silk Road House
director and Stanford anthropologist Alma Kunanbaeva. This is a unique
opportunity to understand traditional tales in their cultural context, and we
hope you can join us, whether once or for the whole program!
For more information: www.silkroadhouse.org
/ dlsherry@hotmail.com / https://www.facebook.com/SilkRoadHouse
The event will take place at SRH on Sunday,
March 8, at 1-4pm.
Silk Road House,
1944 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705.
Silk Road House events are sponsored by the
Silkroad Foundation.
