Milbre Burch
Milbre Burch is a performing storyteller, recording artist, poet, and writer known for her one-woman touring performances. Her audio recordings have garnered numerous Parents' Choice Awards, a NAPPA Gold Award, and a Storytelling World Honor Award.
An internationally known storyteller, award-winning recording artist, published poet and writer and respected teacher of her craft, Burch is a storyteller in every sense of the word.
She has appeared at the National Storytelling Festival five times since 1984 and received a "Storytelling Oscar," the Circle of Excellence Award, from the National Storytelling Network in 1999. In addition, she has been featured at storytelling, spoken word and theatre festivals across the nation and in twelve European cities.
In the Fall of 2005, two award-winning storytellers Burch and Gay Ducey-- daughters and mothers themselves-- collaborate on a fiesty August House recording Because I Said So, celebrating motherhood across the cultural spectrum. Mothers-- everyone has one and each has a story to tell.
These traditional tales from world folklore depict the rewards and challenges of raising children and suggest that some truths survive the tests of time and geography. Whether the mothers herein have starring or supporting roles, their actions are the ones on which the tale turns.
Burch has been an artist-in-residence since l978, working for local arts agencies across the nation as well as state councils in Utah, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Rhode Island and California.
Her students have been mainstream Pre-K to 12th grades as well as ESL, hearing impaired and developmentally disabled children of all ages; at-risk teens; well elders; mentally challenged adults; minimum and maximum security prison inmates; college students, conference attendees, fellow tellers, family business owners, therapists, ministers, rabbis and lay-people, and countless teachers earning CEU's.
She has taught or toured with the Lincoln Center Institute in New York and the Music Center on Tour, the Performing Tree and the University of Phoenix in CA. In addition she has been a teaching artist for the National Conversations Project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Her work in designing and implementing a now-ten-year-old storytelling residency at the Walden School in Pasadena, CA, has been lauded as a national model at education conferences across the country. She has also served as an adjunct professor of Children's Speech Arts at California State University-Los Angeles.
Burch has done eleven spoken word audio-recordings, garnering a Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence, the Storytelling World Award as well as its Honors designation, a Parents' Choice Gold Award, a Parents' Choice Approved Award and two Parents' Choice Classic Awards, a NAPPA Gold Award and two INDIE Award nominations.
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Awards
Appearance Schedule
| 1. |
2008/03/07 – 2008/03/09 |
21st Annual Mariposa Storytelling Festival
Mariposa, CA |
| 2. |
2008/03/10 – 2008/03/13 |
Work in Various Schools
Mariposa, CA |
| 3. |
2008/03/15 – 2008/03/18 |
Fourth Annual Story Stew Storytelling Intensive
Brooklyn, NY |
