Hearing Voices Storytellers + Camile Claudel

Storytellers and Singers are the themes this Stage & Studio 11am  Tues on KBOO 90.7FM & Sat on KZME 107.1FM. First up, we’ll hear about the 8th Annual Hearing Voices Storytelling Festival  in Hillsboro. We’ll talk with organizer Heather Waisanen and Oregon storyteller Leslie Slape. In the second part of the show, we’ll hear about an opera based on the tragic life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her love affair with Rodin.

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The Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS) hosts the 8th Annual Hearing Voices Storytelling Festival April 7 – 14. The festival features four professional storytellers: Tim Tingle (Canyon Lake, TX), Kirk Waller (Oakland, CA), Habiba Addo(Portland, OR and Ghana, West Africa) and Leslie Slape (Rainier, OR).

Leslie Slape & Heather Waisanen

The week-long storytelling extravaganza features thirteen storytelling performances at the WCCLS member libraries, the Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro and the Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains.

Leslie Slape has been storytelling since she was a little girl. When she had children of her own, she began telling tales professionally. She is equally at home in large and small venues, from festivals to the fireside. Her storytelling inspirations are far-ranging, from folktales to history and biography. She especially loves tales from Russia, where her grandfather was born.

See a schedule of events: http://www.wccls.org/voices

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Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel was a risk-taking artist in France who studied with the famous Rodin in Paris during the late 1800s. This operatic drama and movement hybrid travels through her life as a sculptor, lover, sister, daughter and the artist she became. Although most known for her progressive, sensual and autobiographic works, Claudel haunts history for destroying many of her own sculptures. Her life, and eventual unraveling, is threaded through her close relationship with her brother, the famous writer and diplomat, Paul Claudel. Theresa Koon’s passionate portrait paints Claudel’s tumultuous struggle with her family, her affair with Rodin and her burning inner conflict of whether or not to allow her creativity out in the world.