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    Learning to Draw From the Wisdom of Faith Traditions
    in an Interfaith/Intergenerational Storytelling Venture

  All the tellers 2006

Our youth interfaith storytelling event in 2006 was recorded. You can listen to some of our tellers by clicking on their names below.

Nasibah Elmi (age 12, grade 7, An Nur School)
“It Gave Birth”; a traditional Muslim tale (MP3 file, 739 KB)

Adah Hetko (age 14, grade 9, Congregation Beth Shalom)
“Serach”; from the retellings found in But God Remembered: Stories of Women from Creation to the Promised Land by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, and Jerusalem of Gold: Jewish Stories of the Enchanted City by Howard Schwartz (MP3 file, 868 KB)

Tim Everhardt (age 13, grade 7, Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School)
“The Chest of Broken Glass; A Classic Tale of the Ages” from Children’s Book of Virtues, edited by William J. Bennett and Michael Hague (MP3 file, 274 KB)

Nimi Jayaraman (age 14, grade 9, The Hindu Temple Society)
“The Airport”; a personal story (MP3 file, 161 KB)

Ben Russell (age 14, grade 8, Congregation Beth Shalom)
“The Parakeet Named Dreidel” from Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer (MP3 file, 473 KB)

You can also listen to two of our tellers and one of our story coaches being interviewed on WAMC Public Radio just before our 2007 event. To hear this interview, please click here.(MP3 file, 6,163 KB)

Finally, to read an article, "Stories Build Links of Faith," by one of the students participating in this event, please click here.