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From YouTube: NTDF Supported Events - October 21, 2016
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A
Did
you
know
that
the
Metropolitan
Community
College's
maple
woods
campus
is
the
birthplace
of
the
Kansas
City
storytelling
celebration
now
in
its
17th
year
and
that
it
has
grown
to
over
225
performances
throughout
the
Kansas
City
area
here
to
tell
us
about
this
four-day
event
that
is
supported
by
the
neighborhood
Tourist
Development
Fund
is
Heather
Pettis,
who
is
the
community
relations
coordinator
for
maple
woods,
Community
College
and
is
also
the
coordinator
for
this
event.
Heather.
Thank
you
for
having
us
here
today.
Oh.
A
B
Thank
you
so
much
for
asking
here,
there's
a
rich
history
behind
this
celebration
and
I'm
really
proud
to
talk
about
those
folks
that
kind
of
put
it
together.
Steve
otto
was
a
local
storyteller
and
he
worked
here
at
the
campus
in
the
community
education
department
and
he
taught
storytelling
classes
well.
He
got
together
with
Joyce
later,
who
was
our
artistic
director
still
to
this
day,
17
years
later
and
with
our
former
president,
dr.
B
A
B
Joyce
later
does
a
fabulous
job
in
doing
that
she
listens
to
those
tellers.
She
goes
out
and
she
finds
those
tellers
are
going
to
fit
within
the
communities
that
we
have,
that
we
tell
stories
in
so
she's
very
good
at
kind
of
listening,
seeing
where
the
storytellers
talents
were
their
music,
their
drama,
their
theater
all
fit
into
the
scheme
of
where
we
go
throughout
the.
A
B
B
Kids
dating
material.
We
go
into
the
Guadalupe
center,
the
juvenile
detention
centers.
We
go
into
a
lot
of
the
schools.
A
lot
of
our
supporters
from
the
site
committee
are
from
schools
north
in
Kansas,
City,
School,
District,
Fort,
Osage
Liberty.
We
work
with
a
lot
of
different
community
school
districts
to
make
sure
we
get
the
message
out
there,
and
then
we
also
work
with
the
three
major
library
systems
here.
C
B
Kansas
city
missouri
at
kansas
city,
missouri,
Public,
Library,
Kansas,
City,
Kansas,
public
library
and
the
mid-continent
Public
levers
of
which
there
are
37
branches.
So
we
work
with
them
to
get
out
not
only
into
the
schools
but
also
into
their
library
systems,
so
we're
very,
very
lucky
to
have
them.
As
on
our
site
committee,
to
help
us
choose.
A
B
The
most
wonderful
thing
about
the
neighborhood
Tourist
Development
Fund
is
they
give
us
the
opportunity
to
reach
out
outside
of
our
community
to
bring
folks
in.
So
we
look
outside
of
Kansas
City.
We
have
a
family,
actually
that
comes
from
Glen,
Ellen
Illinois
and
there
they
bring
a
van
full
of
people
to
come
and
that's
through
the
help
and
support
of
NT
DF.
B
So
we
will
probably
bring
in
the
shirt
close
to
25,
to
28
thousand
folks
to
hear
stories,
and
not
only
because
of
the
libraries
because
of
the
schools,
but
also
at
our
various
public
free
events
and
for
those
people
that
are
wanting
to
come
in
town.
They
can
look
at
a
free
public
schedule
on
our
website
at
KC
storytelling
work,
that's
Casey,
storytelling,
dot,
orc.
We
hope
you'll
go
out
there
and
take
a
look
at.
A
The
schedule
absolutely
there's
so
much
to
see
on
your
website
as
well
and
looking
for
the
videos
and
the
and
the
photos
to
give
people
an
idea
of
what
to
expect
also
and
just
the
multiple
locations
that
you
cover.
So
thank
you
all
for
what
you
do
and
thank
you
for
bringing
so
many
people
to
Kansas
City
so
that
we
continue
to
to
share
the
story
of
our
city
with
everyone
who
visits.
Thank
you.
So
much.