As many as 12 UCCS students will stand up at Clyde’s in the University Center at 6 p.m. Feb. 15 to tell about their families in the 2011 Live Intergenerational Storytelling Contest.
The Kraemer Family Library is presenting the competition to recognize storytelling as a way to understand different generations.
Acknowledging storytelling as a time-honored tradition that informs, educates and entertains, competitors will share original, five-minute stories featuring a multigenerational cast of characters. The top three storytellers will win cash prizes.
“Mr. Sandy Kraemer is not only a namesake of the library but also a founder of the Intergeneration Foundation,” said Hans Post Uiterweer, volunteer event coordinator, Kraemer Family Library. “He and the foundation’s board thought it might be advantageous to bring intergenerational issues and joys to the attention of a larger public by hosting storytelling events.”
Organized by the Kraemer Family Library, in cooperation with the Office of Student Activities, the Project Excel Oral Communication Center, and the Intergeneration Foundation, this first event will be recorded by UCCS Media Services, Uiterweer said. The resulting video will be made available to other libraries in hopes their administrators will see the value of such events and replicate them.
David Nelson, chair, Communication Department, Coral Laski, assistant director, Oral Communication Center, and Leah Chandler-Mills, instructor, Visual and Performing Arts Department, will judge the competition. First place prize is $250, second place is $150 and third place is $100.
A flier, rules, background and entry form PDF is available at http://www.uccs.edu/~library/storytellingcontest.pdf
Applications will be accepted through Feb. 14.
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