The Art of Storytelling’s International Festival Day is a free day-long event open to the public. With plenty of stories, music, food, and arts & crafts it's all designed to stimulate the imagination!
An exciting new component to this year's AOS Festival Day was the Teen Zone! Check out photos from the Teen Zone
Tales Under the Stars
During the week preceding AOS Festival Day, select branches host evenings of storytelling under the night sky. It's a wonderful time for families to spread out their blankets, enjoy each other's company and hear new and old tales!
Storytelling plays an important role in education and literacy. Each year during spring break, storytelling camps are held for children, ages 8-12, at several branches throughout the community. This unique type of camp not only gives children the opportunity to hear stories, but it also lends them the chance to become storytellers themselves. Graduates of the camp performed for audiences during the International Festival Day on May 2nd, 2009.
Teachers, parents, professional storytellers, children’s librarians can learn new tales and techniques through highly regarded, full-day workshops led by nationally and internationally acclaimed storytellers and authors who creatively share their knowledge. These popular sessions are also valuable for cultural historians.
Since 2000, the Library System has collaborated with a foreign country in an effort to share and exchange the historical and cultural highlights of that country as seen through their literature, folklore and art. This sharing of cultures offers participants the chance to develop a greater interest in the arts, reading and libraries.
We are proud to announce that the 2009 AOS international exchange partner is the Toronto Public Library.
The Art of Storytelling’s International Festival Day is a free day-long event open to the public. With plenty of stories, music, food, and arts & crafts it's all designed to stimulate the imagination! 
An exciting new component to this year's AOS Festival Day was the Teen Zone! Check out 
During the week preceding AOS Festival Day, select branches host evenings of storytelling under the night sky. It's a wonderful time for families to spread out their blankets, enjoy each other's company and hear new and old tales!
Storytelling plays an important role in education and literacy. Each year during spring break, storytelling camps are held for children, ages 8-12, at several branches throughout the community. This unique type of camp not only gives children the opportunity to hear stories, but it also lends them the chance to become storytellers themselves. Graduates of the camp performed for audiences during the International Festival Day on May 2nd, 2009.
Teachers, parents, professional storytellers, children’s librarians can learn new tales and techniques through highly regarded, full-day workshops led by nationally and internationally acclaimed storytellers and authors who creatively share their knowledge. These popular sessions are also valuable for cultural historians.
Since 2000, the Library System has collaborated with a foreign country in an effort to share and exchange the historical and cultural highlights of that country as seen through their literature, folklore and art. This sharing of cultures offers participants the chance to develop a greater interest in the arts, reading and libraries. 