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CT Storytelling Festival on Youtube

Missed the festival? Watch on Youtube

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Dear Story Lovers: The 43rd Annual Connecticut Storytelling Festival & Conference has come and gone, but we captured some of it on video.

Tickets to watch are $10 for each show. Once you purchase a ticket, the link(s) will be sent to you.Videos are available from June 1 – 14 only. Headliners Peter Chand and Vijai Nathan are both of Indian (from India) descent. Peter tells traditional folk tales from India. Vijai is hilarious and tells stories of growing up in America with traditional Indian parents.


Program #1:

The Gathering of Tellers

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Leeny Del Seamonds – “A Gift for the King” – A Persian tale
Bonnie Gardner – “The Red Thread” – The journey to parenthood
Vijai Nathan – “McGoddess” – A journey about faith and why we believe what we believe.
Jaxson Bones, student teller - “The Ghost With The One Black Eye”
Henry Brown, student teller - “The Sea Hare” – A Grimm Fairytale
Rona Leventhal – Ukrainian Folk Tale
Peter Chand – Indian Folk Tale




Program #2:

Bonnie Gardner, Leeny Del Seamonds, Oz Morse (keyboard)

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Bonnie tells three personal tales of transition, change, understanding and hope.
Leeny tells "Suki" – A Japanese crane returns a kindness, and an urban legend.




Program #3:

Peter Chand – "Grimm Sheesha"

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Program #4:

The Scattering: Peter Chand and Vijai Nathan

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Peter tells "The Clever Daughter In Law"
Vijai tells "Good Girls Don’t But Indian Girls Do"





We had a wonderful time at the 43rd Annual Connecticut Storytelling Festival & Conference! Videos will be available soon, in case you were not able to attend in person.




All Souls Unitarian Universalist Congregation




Kate Summerlin & Artists




Peter Chand




Vijai Nathan




Denise Page




Bonnie Gardner




Leeny Del Seamonds




Carol Mon




Rona Leventhal




Oz Morse




Henry Brown




Jaxson Bones




Ann Johnson




Carol Glynn & Darlene Kascak




Madhu Gupta & Ann Shapiro




Carol Glynn & Ann Shapiro




Carol Mon & Susie Scheyder




Ann Shapiro




Janet Carlson



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The 2024 Connecticut Storytelling Festival & Conference

is made possible in part with funding from

The Connecticut Office of the Arts,

CT Visit Greater new London/Norwich



CT Humanities Council


and story lovers like you.

Thank you!





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