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Workshops and Activities
Storyteller Volunteer Information Session
Join us in-person at the museum to learn more about the upcoming year-long training (August 2024–July 2025) to become a volunteer Storyteller at the museum.
Please RSVP by completing this Interest Form.
The Art of Storytelling Across Asian Cultures
This class has been designed to teach storytelling skills and techniques to volunteers at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The stories focus on folktales, legends, and myths from many countries across Asia. Using a child-sensitive approach, storytelling tours are offered for elementary school groups preschool groups, and families. The training will prepare volunteers to skillfully blend storytelling techniques with close-looking art strategies. The class will meet from August 2024 to July 2025.
PROGRAM MISSION
It is the storyteller’s ambition to ignite in each child a sense of awe and excitement. If the storyteller is truly successful, youngsters will bound out of the front door and down the steps, thinking the museum is a place like no other: a place of wonder and beauty, where they hope to return very soon (hopefully with parents in tow). Since 1994, this unique program has been vital to the Asian Art museum’s community outreach. We have served as many as 30,000+ young and adult visitors annually — free to the public!
Learn more about volunteering as a storyteller.
Organizers & Sponsors
General support for education is provided by the Dhanam Foundation; The William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation Education and Research Fund; The Morrison & Foerster Foundation; Dodge & Cox; and The Joseph & Mercedes McMicking Foundation. Support is also provided by an endowment established by The Hearst Foundations.
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