Tales from the Steppes

with Cathryn Fairlee

Sunday, November 2, 1:00-3:00PM

Silk Road House, 1944 University Avenue, Berkeley, 510-981-0700

Free

http://www.silkroadhouse.org

http://www.storynet.org/teller/directory.php?ID=292

“The Silk Road House presents: Tales from the Steppes.

An hour of stories from Central Asia for families, performed by Cathryn Fairlee. She will be telling an episode from the epic Dede Korkut, Bamsi Beyrek. It is dramatic, romantic and playful and full of song.

Cathryn Fairlee a fifth generation Californian, has traveled the world searching and sharing stories in Asia, Europe, and the New World. She began story performing in 1982 and became a full time storyteller in 1999. She has performed traditional folk tales, epics, and mythology on Turkish trains, at Welsh pubs, in Buddhist caves, at Balinese ceremonies, in Chinese teahouses, with Uzbekistan musicians, telling around the kitchen table in Guatemala, and in US graveyards.

Cathryn is a member of the Storytelling Association of California where she served as a board member for seven years. A member of the Bay Area Storytelling Festival Committee, the National Storytelling Network, where she served on its board as Pacific Regional Director, and member of Storytellers of Canada, Cathryn produced The Story Swap on public radio for three years and still produces biannual Epic Events. She received a Master’s Degree in History at Sonoma State University with a thesis on Chinese Teahouse Telling. She still serves on the magazine committee of NSN. And her story is not over yet.”