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A story, a song, let it come and let it go….
Regina Carpenter was one of the “New Voices” featured this year at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tn ! Wow!
Regina was the National Storytelling Network’s 2008 JJ Reneaux Emerging Artist Recipient cited for ” your spontaneity, your natural and flexible relationship with the audience, your delight in performance, and the versatility of your repertoire.”
Since 1993, Regi has been motivating and inspiring audiences throughout the country with a diverse repertoire of world stories, folktales, myths, music and personal stories of the her hometown on the St. Lawrence River and the people who inhabited its shores . An inspirational teacher and keynote speaker, Regi speaks to audiences of educators about the four key components of literacy: reading, writing, speaking and listening and how storytelling links us to them all. A story is the connection between the spoken word and image.
She is the winner of numerous awards for performing, recording, teaching and writing. Regi’s wit, compassion, and craft are reflected in her workshops, keynotes, adult and children’s programs.
Bendable Barbie
“Bendable Barbie – a story in pieces” is the latest CD by award-winning storyteller, Regi Carpenter.
Listen to the introduction to Bendable Barbie Intro to Bendable Barbie
“Regi Carpenter has a voice that dances. It can, at a moment’s notice, be light as a feather, frisk about playfully, or leap with sudden power. Best of all is the sheer joy she communicates in telling her tales.”
- School Library JournalStories with Spirit
I am happy to announce the new storytelling initiative Stories with Spirit. Stories with Spirit is dedicated to bringing songs of joy and stories of hope to ill children, their families and caregivers in homes, hospices and hospitals. Stories with Spirit offers storytelling performances in common rooms at hospitals as well as bedside visits as well as gatherings for adults who could benefit from the healing power of story.
Stories with Spirit, announces the creation of our first CD, The Belly Button Tour! This 55 minute CD offers entertaining and soothing stories and music. To order a CD or find out more about Stories with Spirit, please visit the children’s pediatric cancer advocacy site, Mira’s Movement at www.mirasmovement.org. If you know of anyone who would like to receive a visit, please contact me at soaringstories@gmail.com.
“Regi Carpenter’s CD “Diving and Emerging” is wonderful. Her voice is intimate and the perfect instrument to bring you to her childhood on the St. Lawrence River, where Regi had underwater tea parties, fished with Wonder Bread bait, and watched a mother run down to the river after her son has drowned. These stories touch the mysteries of life.”
-Jay O’Callahan
