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Plan Your Festival Experience

Never been to the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival? Not sure when to come or what to expect? Let us help you plan your experience.

SCHEDULE
Check out our online schedule: www.capestorytelling.com/schedule.html

LOCATIONS
Note that the festival offers two tents:

Merriwether Tent
(Located at the corner of Main and Merriwether Streets)

River Campus Tent
(Located at the corner of Spanish and Morgan Oak Streets on the grounds of the River Campus)

SESSIONS AND PASSES
The festival offers sessions at various times throughout the day and evening, from 9am-9pm, Friday-Saturday and 9am-3:30pm on Sunday. If you purchase a Day Pass, you can attend any session on that particular day—including the “Olio” performances from 7pm-9pm on Friday and Saturday, and 1:30-3:30pm on Sunday, while a 3 Day Pass will allow you to attend all sessions on any day. For example, for the purchase of 1 Day Pass on Saturday, you could attend the 10am-10:45am session with Donald Davis and Kevin Kling at the River Campus tent, take a short break to grab a meal at one of our downtown restaurants, and then come back at 2:30pm-3:15pm to see Minton Sparks and Syd Lieberman.

"OLIO" PERFORMANCE
The “Olio” is a two hour performance on Friday and Saturday night (from 7pm-9pm) and Sunday afternoon (from1:30pm-3:30pm) at the River Campus tent that features the storytellers in a back-to-back series with one short intermission. Perfect for a night out of evening entertainment, the evening Olio on Friday and Saturday night allows you to sit back and enjoy the storytellers under the stars. The Sunday Olio is our last performance of the festival and is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. All ticket holders can attend.

Bring a Picnic to the Old Beech Tree Prior to the Evening “Olio” Performance

Looking for an evening event to compliment your Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival experience? Gather a group of friends or family, pack your own picnic meal, and meet at the Old Beech Tree next to the River Campus tent at 5:30 PM on Friday and Saturday evening. After a picnic meal under the tree and overlooking the majestic Mississippi River, join us at the festival for the evening “Olio” performances from 7pm-9pm. The Olio is a two hour performance that features the storytellers in a back-to-back series with one short intermission. For more details on the Friday and Saturday Olio, CLICK here for the full schedule…

WSIU Records Your Story Free at the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival

WSIU Radio has hosted a recording booth at the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival since its inception in 2008. Festival-goers have tried their hand at storytelling, in a range of styles from retelling oral histories to reading from a book.

This year, the WSIU Radio story recording booth is back and everyone who attends the festival is encouraged to stop by to record their story. It's fun for everyone, no matter your age, and you will receive a CD copy of your story to keep for free! Plus, your story could be selected to be aired on WSIU Radio and featured on their web site. CLICK here for the WSIU web site and last year’s featured storytellers.

WSIU Radio will be on hand to capture stories on Saturday, April 10th, from 10am-3pm. This year, WSIU's story sharing booth will be located at the foot of the Old Mississippi River Bridge Scenic Overlook, next to the storytelling tent on the River Campus. Just look for WSIU's big Blue Literacy van!

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Storytelling festival organizers using networking sites, volunteers to spread word

Front page article about the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival in the March 14th, Sunday newspaper:

Storytelling festival organizers using networking sites, volunteers to spread word

Southeast Students Create "Most Interesting Man" Video to Promote capeSF

Southeast Missouri State University students Coleman Bonze, Caleb Dunn and Ryan Bolinger, under the direction of Dr. Jim Dufek, professor of Mass Media, created a viral video for the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival.

Brittney Ruopp, capeSF Marketing intern, found a commercial online starring "The Most Interesting Man in the World". The capeSF marketing team spoofed that commercial and came up with a viral video. The goal is to upload it onto YouTube, then email it, Facebook, Tweet it, and share it in order to generate buzz about capeSF that makes sense to the festival--as a fun, entertaining event.

"I contacted Dr. Dufek's university students because I thought they would be the perfect crew to handle our video needs. I wanted to create something that would package the festival in a fun quirky way so that the 18-40 demographic would know that capeSF is an event that is meant for them. The spots do that in a big way," says Stephanie Lynch, Director of PR and Marketing for the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau, primary sponsor of capeSF.

The video, stars Dr. Joel Rhodes, History professor at Southeast, and co-producer of the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival and features Kelli Wille and two students from Gamma Sigma Sigma, Casey Hinkebein and Amanda Carter. You can find the video on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

"The video shoot was a lot fun. We shot it at The Library bar in downtown Cape Girardeau. The whole experience was something I'm going to remember for a long time," says Brittney Ruopp, intern for the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau and capeSF.