Past event
Nonprofit organization Bynum Front Porch proudly presents the 7th show in their new monthly performance series, “Mill Town Yarns.”
Donna Washington is an award-winning internationally known master storyteller, artist-educator, and author who has been providing workshops and performing for audiences of all ages for over thirty-six years. She is renowned for her storytelling for both children & adults from poignant & funny fables about the human condition to racy relationships stories to spine-tingling tales of terror.
She has been featured at numerous festivals, schools, libraries, theaters and other venues around the world including Canada, Peru, Ireland Argentina & Hong Kong. During the pandemic, she presented over two hundred shows & workshops virtually online. In 2020, she co-founded the non-profit organization Artists Standing Strong Together with Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold for which they won a 2021 Oracle Award. In 2022 she received the Coleen Salley Storytelling Award. Donna’s eleven storytelling CDs have garnered thirty national awards. She has authored numerous articles about storytelling and education including her very popular blog Language, Literacy & Storytelling. She is also the author of six children’s books.
She lives in Durham and travels all over the world performing and presenting workshops.
Mill Town Yarns shows are inside the cozy & quaint Bynum General Store. Free admission. Hat & QR code passed for donations.
Please note: Though some local folks may know and love her for her storytelling in their children’s schools, this intimate indoor show is actually for us grownups (and older kids 11+), not for little children— thanks 💙