Karen Chace is an award-winning storyteller, teaching artist, workshop leader, and author. Since 2002 she has taught the art of storytelling to over 600 students. Her favorite stories to tell are fairytales and folktales but she is also known to tell a personal story or two. Her audiences range from preschool to senior citizens. Story selections are based on the age of the audience and the theme of the event.

She is a contributing author to numerous publications around the world and her book, Story by Story won two distinguished awards. She has presented storytelling workshops at numerous conferences, businesses, and institutions of higher education. Karen produces and hosts the Story Café, a local television series since 2015 on Seekonk Channel 9. Fees are negotiable.

Performance Fee: $350

Workshop Fee: Negotiable depending on length

Travel: CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT, Out of Region

Audience: PreK, Elementary, Teens, Families, Adults

Genres: Folktales, Personal Stories, Humorous Tales

Awards:

2018 Freetown Woman of the Year Award: For her contributions to the community through her storytelling programs
2016 Storytelling World Honor Award for Story by Story: Creating a Student Storytelling Troupe
2015 Anne Izard Storytelling Award for Story by Story: Creating a Student Storytelling Troupe
2011 National Storytelling Network’s Oracle Service and Leadership Award
2009 LANES Brother Blue-Ruth Hill Storytelling Award

AUDIENCE MEMBER

Polished, confident, shining, and showing a strength and belief of stories from deep within. There is something about Karen’s telling that just sucks you in; something to do with her method which draws not just on the story, but on the thousands upon thousands of tellers who have told these tales for centuries before. She takes this energy, this magic, and brings it into the story which flies like an arrow into your soul and lodges there. There are good storytellers, and great entertainers, and then there are others who have this gift of storytelling, demanding your attention in such a way you find yourself there with her, and with all the other characters, but not in a superficial way, but REALLY there, mind, body, and soul. If there is anyone reading this that wants a great storyteller, book her!
Simon Brooks

STUDENT

“Storytelling was a wonderful experience and a great outlet for me as a child. Not only did I learn different stories from all over the world, I learned different lesson with each story. It helped me conquer the fear of speaking in front of large crowds. Most importantly, it taught me how to find my own voice and helped me gain the confidence I needed to be myself.”
– Tori

TEACHER

“As a teacher you strive to instill the basic elements of communication in your students through exercises in reading and writing. Rarely are you able to touch upon the more abstract notion of effective communication through understanding presence… As I sat in the audience, watching the final presentations performed by students who previously hesitated to raise a hand in the classroom for fear they would have to speak aloud, I was amazed at what I saw…The Storytelling program is teaching skills in effective communication that help a student to make sense of the daily activities taught within the confines of the classroom.”
Barbara Flanders – Fourth Grade Teacher