The Sharing the Fire Conference Committee is happy to announce that our keynote speaker for 2021 will be the multi-talented Sherry Norfolk. Sherry is an award-winning storyteller, author and teaching artist, performing and leading residencies and professional development workshops nationally and internationally.
More About Sherry …
Sherry has appeared in the Manitoba International Storytelling Festival, Taiwan International Storytelling Carnival, International Art of Storytelling Festival (Miami, FL), International Storytelling Center (Jonesborough, TN), Singapore International Storytelling Festival, Manila International Storytelling Festival, and many more festivals, schools, libraries, museums and universities nationwide.
Sherry is a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, a Wolf Trap Teaching Artist, an Arts Integration Teaching Artist with Tennessee Arts Commission’s Value Plus Schools and Arts360 programs, and is on the rosters of the Mississippi Arts Commission, Louisiana Council for the Arts, South Carolina Arts Commission, Virginia Commission on the Arts, and Springboard to Learning (Young Audiences) St. Louis. She leads residencies in preK through high school classrooms across the country and southeast Asia. An Adjunct Professor at Lesley University, Sherry is a recognized leader in integrating learning through storytelling.
Learn more about Sherry at SherryNorfolk.com
More About the 2021 STF Keynote Address …
Sherry will share wisdom gathered over her many years as a storyteller and educator. The title of the keynote address and the theme for this year’s conference is: Storyteller, Story Worker.
As storytellers, we can be so much more than just performing artists – we can be proactively, consciously, intentionally making a difference. Where and how is this work being done? Who is doing it? What is being accomplished? Where do you fit in as a storyteller and a story worker?
Sherry will discuss all of these issues and more in a keynote that is sure to inspire listeners to greater storytelling heights.
So be sure to save the date … we’ll see you May 18-20 at the Gideon Putnam in Saratoga Springs, NY.