STORYTELLING WITH OLGA LOYA

The Magic of Cuentos

Olga Loya’s Stories from Latin America celebrates the magic of los cuentos (stories) with folk tales of self image, personal strength, self discovery and a myth from long ago that helps us learn how to work as a community. Learn about Latino culture as you learn about yourself.

Friday, June 18th, 2021
10:00am - 10:45am EST 

About The Storyteller

Storyteller Olga Loya was captivated by the vivid stories her Mexican grandmother and father would tell. Absorbing all of their secrets and following the tendrils of memory that bind people and families, Olga fashioned and invented for herself, out of her own substance and imagination, a stirring universe of creation. Growing up in the barrio of East LA, where family rituals and traditions were the center of her emotional life, the young Latina, performing improvisation as a girl, has mastered the expressive vocabulary of artful storytelling. With her poetic eloquence Olga's stories are an impassioned quest to keep alive not only the fabric of her family but the larger Latino culture, richly robed in folktales, ancient myths, and history. There are personal tales, short stories inspired from a mix of newspaper and dream, healing stories, tales of extraordinary women, of myriad voices and inflections, and sometimes music and dance. Olga Loya's journey revealed to her the capacity to make one's life a surprise, even to herself, and especially to her audiences. And the magic is how she draws her listeners into unexpected realms.