Spellbinders and Rocky Mountain Storytellers
Together in Story
April 26, 2025 Joint Conference
Featuring Margaret Read MacDonald
8:30 a.m. -3:30 p.m., Louisville Senior Center
900 W Via Appia, Louisville, CO 80027
Registration opens February 18, 2025
Additional workshops by Jen & Nat
Whitman and Susan Marie Frontczak
Conference $25.00. We have a full schedule with multiple workshops, a Keynote Address by Margaret Read MacDonald, networking, a story circle, and the Spellbinders’ annual meeting. (Lunch available for purchase or you can bring your own.)
Lunch $10.00. Order at time of on-line registration (Turkey or Veggie sandwich or a salad from Subway, chips, cookie, drink)
Or bring your own lunch $0.00.
Storytelling concert Saturday evening, April 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, 506 Via Appia Way, Louisville, CO 80027
Featuring: Margaret Read MacDonald, Susan Marie Frontczak, Rachel Ann Harding, and Kathleen Santopietro
$15.00 adults $10.00 children
Overnight Accommodations:
- For Spellbinders who would like to stay in the home of another Spellbinder, we have several who have offered guest rooms. Anyone seeking a room for one or two nights to attend the annual meeting and workshops may write to chair@spellbinders.org before April 15th. Please include your name, telephone number, email, the name of your Local Spellbinders organization, and the dates and times that you would like to be offered a guest room in the home of a Spellbinder.
- If you prefer to stay at the local Best Western Motel in Louisville, Boulder Valley Spellbinders has reserved a block of rooms for Spellbinders.
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Oral storytelling is good for kids, teachers, and our volunteers. And it’s good for your local community!
Find out how having a Spellbinders Trained Storyteller in your classroom enhances literacy and supports your curriculum.
Discover the Joys of Storytelling!
Our storytelling program brings together young and old to create connections, advance literacy, and enrich the lives of children and volunteers alike. Donate a few hours and ignite children’s imaginations in a school near you.
“Telling stories as a Spellbinder volunteer gives me more fun than any human has a right to have.”
— Karen Hurst
“You’ll never have more fun and you will never, ever experience as special of a reward as having a group of fourth graders smile and clap when you tell a good story. It is very rewarding.”
— Patrick McCarthy
What Educators Say About Spellbinders
“(Our Spellbinders Trained Storyteller) was simply wonderful. Her ease of addressing children was immediately apparent and her storytelling was mesmerizing. The fact that it went along with stories or history we were already discussing in class really added to the enjoyment. I loved having the kids turn to me wide-eyed, knowing they were making connections.”
— Teacher from Broomfield
“Thank you for visiting our class. The art of storytelling is so important to these little ones. To be good writers and readers they need to understand the structure of a story. Oral language and auditory processing are so crucial at their developmental level also. We talked about your story after you left and they were amazing with their retell and recall.”
– Basalt Elementary School Teacher
“I wanted to take a moment to thank you and your colleagues for the magic you help create by bringing together these incredible storytellers. Stories are truly at the heart of learning, and we are all so fortunate to have Spellbinders giving this incredible creative opportunity to children.”
– Cynthia Stevenson (Former Superintendent of Jeffco Public Schools)
2023-2024 Spellbinders Outcomes
Spellbinders volunteer storytellers are making an impact in their local communities, connecting with students in classrooms, older adults living in retirement communities, as well as all ages of story lovers in local libraries, parks, and other venues!
Spellbinders and Storytelling Support Healthy Aging
Results of Spellbinders Healthy Aging Survey: 2020-2021 School Year
The Spellbinders National Organization and Spellbinders Licensed Local Storytelling groups offer and promote activities that play a key role in healthy aging for seniors. Our organization and services are well positioned to work with seniors to enhance their well-being in several areas, including: expanding social interaction and personal relationships, community involvement and mental activity, and enhancing a perception of meaningful purpose.
