Hatrack Happenings: 2011

Monday, August 29, 2011

You know what?

THE HATRACK STORYTELLERS ARE CELEBRATING THEIR

45TH ANNIVERSARY!

Hard to believe, isn't it?

SOOOOOOO......

Put on a happy face!

Put on a silly hat.

It's party time!

We are kicking off the year with a Celebration Banquet on Thursday, October 6, at 5:30 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc.

All Storytellers, past and present, their families, and all former Hatrack Kids are invited.

Mark your calendars and tell your friends.

You bring a dish to pass; beverages and utensils will be provided.

After our feast (let's face it...pot lucks are the best), you will be entertained by a special group of storytellers presenting ADULT stories (now, don't go there...this is a family event, you know!)

Make reservations by contacting Diane Hansen at 920-682-3194 or dwick@charter.net.

Hope to see YOU there!

Friday, March 4, 2011

March 19th, 2011 Program...Dr. Seuss

Join the Hatrack Storytellers in wishing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one of our favorite writers...

Dr. Seuss

Saturday, March 19

11:00

Lester Public Library, Two Rivers

Dr. Seuss fans of all ages are welcome (no charge!) to hear:

Gertrude McFuzz

How Gerald McGrew Caught the Filla-Ma-Zok

What Was I Scared Of?

Horton Hatched the Egg

Readers: Lisa Heili, Rena Lippert, Howard McMahon, Dean Wiegert

Director: Mary Drohman

Hats designed by Mary Mellberg.

See you soon!

Our Mission

Hatrack Storytellers was formed in 1967 to present programs in a Readers' Theatre for children style.

Readers' Theatre is called "Theatre of the Mind" because the audience has to provide the images for themselves. A goup of trained interpreters (readers) consisting of both adult and children, take a story off the printed page and into the realms of sound and reaction.

The Hats are a visible symbol of the goals of Readers' Theatre - stimulatin imaginations, identifying multiple characters, and representing the fun that comes from reading!

There are no space limitations - as long as the hat rack, readers, and audience are one.

We focus on children, joy of reading, growth in imagination, audience participation, and FUN!

Sally Semmes, President

First Reader by Billy Collins

I can see them standing politely on the wide pages that I was learning to turn.

Jane in a blue jumper, Dick with his crayon brown hair, playing with a ball or exploring tho cosmos of the backyard,

unaware they are the first characters - the boy and girl who begin fiction.

Beyond the simple illustration of their neighborhood the other protagonists were waiting in a huddle -

Frightening Heathcliff, frightened Pip, Nick Adams carrying a fishing rod, Emma Bovary riding into Rouen.

But I would read about the perfect boy and his sister even before I would read about Adam and Eve, garden and gate, and before I heard the name Gutenberg; the type of their simple talk was moving into my focusing eyes.

It was always Saturday and he and she were always pointing at something and shouting, "Look!"

Pointing at the dog, the bicycle, or at their father as he pushed a hand mower over the lawn, waving at the aproned mother framed in the kitchen doorway, pointing toward the sky, pointing at each other.

They wanted us to look but we had looked already

And seen the shaded lawn, the wagon, the postman.

We had seen the dog, walked and watered, and fed the animal,

and now it was time the discover the infinite, clicking

Permutations of the alphabet's small and capital letters.

Alphabetical ourselves in the rows of classroom desks,

We are forgetting how to look and learning how to read.

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