Mission:
The mission of the Storytelling Arts Center of the Southeast is to preserve and enrich storytelling arts for people of all ages through education, performances, research, workshops and writing.Purpose:
· Preservation, education and enhancemant of the art of storytelling.· Growing an appreciation of storytelling among young people and others unfamiliar with the art and enjoyment
of storytelling.
· Encouraging adults to preserve history and culture, both personal and community, through the art of
storytelling.
Strategies:
· Conducting oral history research.· Developing new stories that preserve the folk history of the region.
· Maintaining a lending library with a collection of storytelling books and audio-visuals.
· Conducting Educational programs including elder hostels, workshops for youth, teachers.
and others
· Encouraging College Courses.
· Promoting the Story Spinners and other storytelling guilds.
· Sponsoring the annual Storytelling Festival of Carolina.
· Promoting Storytellers camps and performances for and by youngsters.
· Sponsoring Periodic storytelling performance, such as ghost stories on Halloween.
· Sponsoring the North Carolina Liar's competition.
