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Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon.
Media source: Connie Mesquita, Coordinator, LCC Multicultural Center,
463-5144
for release April 14, 2003
Storyteller Esther Acosta to perform at multicultural festival
EUGENE - Storyteller Esther Acosta will perform Thursday, April 24 at
6:30 p.m. at the River Road / El Camino Rio Elementary School at 120 West
Hilliard Lane off Chambers in Eugene. There is no charge.
A popular artist at schools, conferences, festivals and community events,
Acosta shares personal reflections on her Chicana/Mexicana/Indigena background.
Her stories are filled with laughter, tears, and self-realization. She
touches on cultural diversity and awareness, familial experiences, lessons
learned about life, traditions and ceremonies, folk tales and myths, ghost
stories, and indigenous and native experiences.
Acosta has a master’s degree in education and tells stories to audiences of all ages. She taught middle school and senior high school for 20 years and currently teaches at Skyview High School in Thornton, Colorado.
She is a member of the Rocky Mountain Storyteller’s Guild and the Traveling Rainbow Tellers. She performed at the National Storytelling Festival in Tennessee last year. Her story, “No Footprints in the Snow,” is published in, “Between Midnight and Morning: Historic Hauntings and Ghost Tales from the Frontier, Hispanic and Native American Traditions” by Pat Mendoza (August House Publishers, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas).
Acosta is a participant in the storytelling project Mosaic Migrations and is a member of the Peace and Dignity Journeys spiritual run.
Her presentation
is part of the Multicultural Storytelling Festival from April 23-26 sponsored
by the Lane Community College Multi-Cultural Center, the Eugene 4J Multicultural/Equity
Office, and the Eugene Education Association. For more information about
the festival, contact Bettie Luke at 687-3464.
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