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If you don’t get your fill of everything Irish this St. Patrick’s Day, a spoken-word event dedicated to the Emerald Isles comes up just nine days afterward.
South Mountain Community College’s main campus, 7050 S. 24th St., will be home to the 13th annual Storytelling Festival Wednesday, March 26 to Friday, March 28. The festival, put on by the SMCC Storytelling Institute, will feature presentations by Liz Weir, one of Ireland’s best-known storytellers.
“We’ve been offering a spring storytelling festival for over 10 years, and we always feature at least one well-known storyteller,” said teacher and event organizer Liz Warren, “although no one’s ever come this far before - all the way from Ireland.”
The highlights of the three-day festival come Thursday and Friday. March 27 is the Community Storytelling Festival, occurring 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. then again from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., which is free and open to the public. March 28 features a public performance by Weir, 7 to 9 p.m. in the school’s performance hall, called “Folktales from Ireland & Beyond.” This event is $10.
Weir also kicks off the event March 26 at 6:30 p.m. with a two-hour storytelling workshop called “Shortening the Road: Storytelling on the Path to Peace in Northern Ireland,” in which Weir will describe projects she has been involved with over the last 30 years. That workshop is $50.

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