Storytelling Performances

Judy Sima’s warm, engaging, and fun-filled storytelling programs combine, folk, traditional, and modern tales with humor, songs, props and lots of audience participation. Performances often incorporate one of her colorful Appalachian Limberjack dancing puppets. Programs may be tailor made for your school, library, youth or family group.

 

Summer Reading Program 2007:
Riddle-de-dee: Stories to Solve and More

Judy answers some age-old questions while asking new ones, with something extra thrown in just for fun.  

Summer Reading Program 2008:
Hug-a-Bug-a-Boo  

Judy creates a menagerie of tales where you'll meet all sorts of creatures – big and small, cute and cuddly, creepy and crawly, furry and fuzzy.

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Other Storytelling Performances

Around the World and Back Again

Judy searches the globe for stories to help us appreciate that despite differences, people the world over have the same needs, fears, and desires as we do.

Stories for Living Happily Ever After

Judy transports you to “Once Upon a Time" where magical creatures and thrilling adventures abound, and every story ends with “Happily Ever After.”

Fabulous Folktales

Judy shares folktales and legends – some familiar, some not so familiar, but every tale enriches listeners with stories and wisdom of the ages.

Delightfully Frightful

Judy guarantees wide eyes and delightful shivers- but no nightmares - with scary stories selected especially for your age group.

Books Come Alive

Judy encourages reading as she brings to life some of the best stories in Children’s Literature -sending young people racing to the shelves to read the books for themselves.

In the Jewish Tradition

Judy gives voice to the traditions of her people – their wisdom, humor, warmth, and “sechel” (native good sense).

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Author Talks for Young People and Adults

Writing Your Passion

Judy shares publishing experiences and insights gained in the writing of her award winning book: Raising Voices: Creating Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes (Libraries Unlimited 2003)

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Featured Performances

  • Alpena Public Schools – 1999, 2004
  • The Ark in Ann Arbor - 1995
  • Authors in April, Mistress of Ceremony – Rochester MI 2006
  • Bethel College, Elkhart IN - 2000
  • Borders Book Stores
  • Canton Family Storytelling Festival – 1999
  • Chicken Festival, Chillicothe, MO – 2001
  • City of Detroit Noel Night, 2006
  • Detroit Festival of Storytelling at Wayne State University – 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997
  • Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Elizabeth Stone Gallery, Birmingham, MI
  • Flint Institute of Arts
  • Jackson Story Fest – 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007
  • Laramie Public Schools, Laramie, WY - 2005
  • Michigan Association for Media in Education
  • Michigan Reading Association
  • Michigan Story Festival, 2000 and 2006
  • Mid-East Michigan Library Consortium
  • Northern Prairie Storytelling Festival, Sioux Falls, SD - 2001
  • Oakland County Metro Parks
  • Renaissance City Story Fest - 1992
  • Saginaw Area Reading Council
  • Schools, public libraries, recreation centers, and senior residences throughout Michigan
  • State of Michigan Library – Read Across America – 2002
  • Storytelling Along the Wabash, Vincennes IN - 1995
  • Wayne County Community College