Taos, New Mexico
The Taos Storytelling Festival is Friday, October 9th, and Saturday, October 10th, 2021, in beautiful and historic Taos, New Mexico.
The 2020 was virtual, for obvious reasons, and the headliners were re-invited to tell stories live in 2021. We’ll be filling in at various time slots and venues, including judging the StorySLAM on Friday and telling a tale or two at Saturday’s finale.
Saturday’s finale is at Taos Center for the Arts. The balance of the festival is at SOMOS, local bars, breweries, and restaurants. SOMOS is Society of the Muse of the Southwest, the sponsor of the festival and of numerous other programs for writers, storytellers, and other artists.
We’ve been to Taos before. It’s a beautiful town on the high desert, surrounded by the Sangre de Christo Mountains. We’re anxious to return!
Update:
The festival was scaled down to two hours of storytelling. And it was delightful! Held in the SOMOS parking lot, so as to be outdoors, it featured four storytellers. Sixty or so people braved the weather and the pandemic to attend.
SOMOS aggressively organized events before the pandemic, with weekly readings, story tellings, poetry, and classes, all in the heart of Taos. This festival was its first live event since the invasion of the virus, and we were glad to be a part of it.
The theme for the event was “transformation”. According to our google machine, transformation is the function F that maps X to X.
It took us some time to figure out what that meant, and even longer to craft a story with such a theme. But we did!