The Art & Practice of Hispano Storytelling
By Ricardo Garcia
With chistes (jokes), cuentos (legendary tales) and corridos (legendary ballads), Ricardo Garcia entertains and informs by telling stories from Northern New Mexico, the homeland of Hispano culture in the United States. This program provides an “experience” in the Hispanic oral tradition of storytelling. In English with smattering of Spanish.

Children's Stories, Animal Stories and Traditional Lakota Stories
By Jerome Kills Small
Kills Small tells children's stories and animal stories that have been passed down for generations as part of the Lakota and Dakota Sioux traditions. Among the types of stories covered are iktomi (trickster tales) and ohunkanka (old legends). When speaking to adult audiences, Kills Small also analyzes the Native American storytelling tradition.

Creatures From the North
By Judith Simundson
This program includes a diverse collection of folk tales in which humans encounter such troll types as the fierce, but stupid, mountain trolls, wily water creatures, and the human-looking hulder trolls, whose underground world parallels the human one above. Traditional songs, enhanced by Norwegian medieval lyre and harp, set a mystical tone.

Ghosts, Goblins and Ghouls!
By Dorothy Rieke
This discussion about what makes a story scary includes plenty of terrifying examples. There are age-appropriate stories to thrill and chill any audience.

Kiowa Tales
By Matthew "Sitting Bear" Jones
These are the stories, tales and legends of Set-Angia, Sitting Bear's Native American people. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, these stories reveal the Kiowa vision of the world—from the time of Creation to the coming of the white man. Attired in native dress, Sitting Bear brings to the audience through his storytelling the thinking and customs of his Kiowa people, legends such as why the Crow is black and how the Coyote got his yell.

The Klondike Goldrush, Seen Through the Eyes of Robert W. Service, Bard of the Yukon
By Stuart C. Lynn
In a Chautauqua-style presentation, Lynn portrays the Scottish-born poet Robert W. Service. Lynn revives the age-old art of storytelling with personal recollections and renditions of ballads about the Klondike gold rush. Service lived and wrote in the Yukon between 1903 and 1910. The program introduces listeners to such characters as Dangerous Dan McGrew, Sam McGee, Blasphemous Bill McGee, Salvation Bill and others.

Norwegian Nights
By Judith Simundson
This presentation is alive with creatures who ride the winter winds, twisting dreams into adventures. Through her storytelling, Simundson invites listeners to enter the land where people encounter trolls and hulder folk, the "invisible ones." Moving from story to song, she sings in the original Norwegian dialect and offers her own translations, accompanying herself on Norwegian harp and medieval lyre. 

The Otoe-Missouria Tribe: The Forgotten Nebraskans
By Matthew "Sitting Bear" Jones
This program, uniquely presented through storytelling by a member of the Iowa/Otoe-Missouria Tribe, offers a glimpse of the lives, lifestyles and personal feelings of his tribe, a proud and honorable people who once lived and hunted on the Nebraska prairie. Sitting Bear Jones, who makes this presentation attired in his native dress, can alter the program to accommodate a variety of audience types. This storytelling presentation is particularly suited for intergenerational gatherings.

Storytelling and the Hispanic Oral Tradition
By Linda M. Garcia-Perez
An experienced storyteller, Garcia-Perez draws on her experiences as a young girl in Omaha's Mexican-American barrio. Her stories convey a universal message of humor, wonder and tradition. The presentation can be tailored to focus on one of the following topics:

• "Traditional Hispanic Stories for Families and Children" — Using stories to bring to life the myths, fantasies and tales of Latin cultures.
• "Keeping the Oral Tradition Alive: Abuelita 

Tales from Hans Christian Andersen
By Lisa Kramme
The delightful stories of Hans Christian Andersen are brought to life in the imaginations of audience members as Lisa Kramme shares tales by this great Danish author. Listeners also learn about the life of Andersen, including his early struggles and later successes.

Tell Me a Story
By Janice Collins-Brooks
Do you know what happened to "The Giant of the Great Water"? Do you know why there was "A Town Where None Might Go to Sleep"? Do you know the meaning of the "Signifying Monkey"? Through enchanting and intriguing stories, Brooks outlines the origin of the African-American folktale and traces its roots. This program explores the ceremony, the ritual and the art of folklore.