Summer at The Story Center

Start your summer of travel and exploration with The Story Center at Mid-Continent Public Library! As vacation season kicks off, The Story Center has two upcoming programs to get you excited to tell your travel stories, whether you’re exploring the globe or your own backyard.

In Writing the Journey: Travel Memoir Basics on Saturday, June 13, bestselling author Rolf Potts will teach a full-day writing intensive, giving a series of talks and prompts to guide workshop participants through crating a travel memoir piece. Rolf has authored books like Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel and The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel, and he’s taught nonfiction writing at universities and abroad, so this workshop is a great opportunity to learn not only about travel essays but also the art of nonfiction. This program will include short expeditions around the grounds of the Woodneath Library Center (weather permitting). No matter what your plans are for the summer, learn how to write about them with Rolf Potts!

Then join The Story Center again later this summer, on Thursday, July 30, for Travel and Exploration Stories, a storytelling concert. Storyteller Priscilla Howe has told stories in fourteen countries on four continents, so her performance will be an adventure in and of itself. Priscilla will be joined by two other tellers who have completed The Story Center’s Oral Storytelling Certificate Program, so this will be a full, family-friendly hour of stories where you can experience travel without journeying farther than your public library!

Wherever this summer takes you, The Story Center has a program to help you make the most of your adventures.

Melanie P.
Story Center Program Manager