Summit & Festival Ticket Prices*

Ticket Type
Early Bird Price(Before May 1, 2024)
Standard Price

Household
$25 ($35 after May 1)

Class
$25 ($45 after May 1)

Homeschool group
$10 ($15 after May 1)

*Tickets may be used for in-person and/or virtual attendance.

Featuring Story Artists: Peter Cook (Deaf/ASL Story Artist from IL), Laura Deal (CO) plus Jan C. Smith, Mark Gollaher, Melva Gifford, Richard Hatch, Ted Erekson, Paige Funk, Steffani Raff, Franque Bains, April Johnson, Ramona Lucius with HandsOn Folktales

Featured Professors: Tomás Hidalgo Nava, PhD from BYU – Trilingual Experience (Language of Story: Spanish); Nancy Donoval, PhD from East Tennessee State University (sexual violence and storytelling); Adam Bradley, PhD from UCLA (storytelling and racial divides found within "Invisible Man" by Ellison)

Plus 40 community tellers!

Additional time info:

Additional time info:

We are Hybrid! Join us in-person, virtual-live, or viewing recordings. All sessions will have American Sign Language Interpreters.

May 13, 2024 - Professional Development Day

5-hour hybrid workshop "Beyond Prose: Using Poetry and Metaphor to Enrich Your Storytelling and Strengthen Your Recall" taught by Laura Deal from 9:30am to 2:30pm

Keynote by Peter Cook from 7:00pm-7:50pm

State of the Art Addresses from Greek, Peruvian, and Japanese communities from 8:00pm-9:00pm

Murray Park Church of Christ, 494 East 5300 South, Murray, UT 84107 OR virtual/computer

May 14, 2024 - Performance Day

Three Pavilions at the same time of performances of professional story artists and youth (K-12th grade) to older adult community tellers in morning with sessions at 9:30am, 10:30am, and 11:30am. One Pavilion in the evening with sessions at 7:00pm and 8:00pm. ASL for all sessions.

Murray City, 495 East 5300 South, Murray, UT 84107  - will be recorded an added to unlisted YouTube playlist later

May 15, 2024 - Virtual Field Trip Day

Pre-recordings available to view from 7am MDT and onward to June 15, 2023 - includes Peter Cook, Laura Deal, Richard Hatch accompanied by Rosemary Kimura Hatch (violin) and Jonathan Hatch (piano), Mark Gollaher, and Franque Bains along with Ashley Finley, and premiere of youth and older adult community tellers. ASL for all films. Virtual/Computer - unlisted YouTube playlist to ticketholders.

May 16, 2024 - Academic Day

9:00am-10:15am MDT

"Language of Story: Spanish with Tomás Hidalgo Nava, PhD - live-streamed on Story Crossroads YouTube channel for free and open to all, able to ask questions, will be Trilingual with English/Spanish/ASL

Able to view all day starting May 16--

"Story Education Bites" with Nancy Donoval, Professor from East Tennessee State University and Adam Bradley, Professor from UCLA

4:30pm-5:30pm MDT

Teachers! Stories Do Work workshop taught by Jan C. Smith - focusing on helping teachers with storytelling - Zoom link shared with anyone upon free registration

Virtual/Computer for all parts.

Viewing from May 13-June 15, 2024

While the events that are experienced and recorded are May 8-11, 2023, viewing is until June 15, 2023. People can even order now and all the way to June 15, 2024.

See full details and find downloadable pdf schedule at http://storycrossroads.org/festival