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Jasmin Cardenas told stories of her dreams of being an actress and how she met her life partner. Photo credit: Weber State University

Shared spaces, happy places

Tim Costello March 16, 2022

Many faculty and staff members gathered for the first time in several years at the Timbermine Steakhouse in Ogden to commemorate the 26th annual Weber State Storytelling Festival on March 1. David Byrd,...

Children attend the Weber State University Storytelling Festival in March 2017. Photo credit: Signpost Archives

Twenty-six years of stories

Tim Costello February 9, 2022

The Storytelling Festival has been part of Weber State University history for the past 26 years. It originally occurred as a one-day event on across the lawns on campus in 1996. However, a pipe broke and...

Storytelling Festival goes online

Storytelling Festival goes online

Sarah Earnshaw March 3, 2021

The Moyes College of Education is celebrating the telling of stories at Weber State University for 25 years within 25 days in a new online format for the college’s annual Storytelling Festival. The...

Graphic by Madison Osborn

Storytelling: Changing the world one brain at a time

Zac Watts November 9, 2017

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is perhaps one of the most important books in American history. Enraged by the injustices perpetrated against African American slaves and laws that would...

Youth storytellers share stories at Weber State Universitys Storytelling Festival at Davis Conference Center on Mar. 1. (Dalton Flandro / The Signpost)

Becoming the ‘jelly doughnut’ of storytelling

Samantha Bunderson March 3, 2017

Unique and powerful stories have been the backbone of culture and literature for millennia, and storytelling has played a vital role in the preservation and documentation of history. Every culture,...

Singing of the road to freedom

February 24, 2015

Combing soulful music and stories of slavery, Kim and Reggie Harris took their audience on a historical journey during the annual Weber State University Storytelling Festival. Audience members gathered...

Local, national performers to attend 18th Storytelling Festival

February 20, 2014

Everyone is invited to step into a story during the 18th Annual Storytelling Festival next week. Both local and nationally acclaimed storytellers will perform in 58 free events at 21 different venues...

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