Winter Tales Workshop: "Past, Present, Write for the Future"

• Event Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010
• Time: 9:00 am–12:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Zahn Learning Center, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: $30 general public/$20 students

• Workshop

This year's presenter is Eldrena Douma, a Hopi-Tewa storyteller from Laguna Pueblo who travels throughout the United States sharing stories from her American Indian heritage. In this workshop, Eldrena helps participants pinpoint personal life stories (both remembered and waiting to be re-awakened) that are appropriate for story development. She also shares tales that give examples of how history and life stories remain strong among her tribes and family and how some of these stories have made their way into books for preservation purposes. Winter Tales events are sponsored by an endowment from Reginald and Gladys Laubin and supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.