Storyteller Kirk Waller: Quack, Gabble, Squawk!

The 10th Annual Menlo Park Storytelling Festival concludes with a rousing performance from acclaimed teller Kirk Waller!

Kirk brings a morning of music, movement and engaging stories and songs with "Quack, Gabble, Squawk and other Animal Tales.”

About Kirk Waller:

With a lifelong love of story, literature and the performing arts, Kirk Waller has been immersed in these art forms for over 20 years. He has garnered national recognition for his storytelling, including being awarded the J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Grant by the National Storytelling Network; receiving a Parent’s Choice Foundation Gold award, and being a storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Note: this performance replaces the originally-scheduled appearance by Diane Ferlatte and Eric Pearson, who had to cancel.

This free event received funding support from the Friends of the Menlo Park Library.

Sunday, December 7, 2025
11-11:45 a.m.
Belle Haven Library
100 Terminal Ave., Menlo Park
menlopark.gov/storytelling

About Storytelling:

• Storytelling is telling stories--without using a book.
• It's an ancient art form that predates libraries, and books, and writing.
• It's not necessarily for children!
• Traditional-style storytelling creates unique images in the mind of each listener.
• According to the National Storytelling Network, "storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s imagination. In storytelling, the listener imagines the story.”
• According to the Storytelling Association of California (an organization dedicated to promoting storytelling as a living art form), storytelling is “orally passing on adventures, wisdom, experiences, surprise, history, laughter, beliefs and imagination.”

This performance is the final of 8 events in the 10th Annual Menlo Park Storytelling Festival, taking place from November 2 -December 7.

This free event received funding support from the Friends of the Menlo Park Library.

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