Natalie Jones & Elizabeth Vander Kamp

Natalie Jones has delighted audiences across the Southeast for over 30 years. Her dynamic style reflects her background as a former park ranger, teacher, and librarian. Natalie’ s presentations engage all ages, and she tells in schools, preschools, libraries, festivals, and community events. Her programs are perfect for family audiences. Music, puppets, humor, and props are used to create energy filled performances. There is always a chance for the audience to get involved as she adds plenty of opportunities for participation. She also teaches her craft as a preschool teacher trainer and conducts demonstration workshops for storytellers, teachers, and librarians. Natalie holds a Master’s in Library Media Education. Currently she is a teaching artist in storytelling and music for The Craddock Center in Cherry Log, GA. Highlights of her story career include winning liar’s contest awards in 4 states, telling online in Better Said than Done concerts, the member showcase at the Florida Storytelling Festival, a New Voice at South Carolina’s Stone Soup Storytelling Festival and the featured storyteller at The Big Fibbers Festival in Rome GA and A Taste of Storytelling in LaGrange, GA. Contact Natalie to customize the perfect story program for your event.
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Elizabeth brings decades of writing, performing, presenting, story-telling/listening, and teaching to her work. She wrote and delivered scores of performances throughout the United States and Canada about the 20th century’s greatest athlete, Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Audiences age 5 to 105 delighted in learning the story of Babe. Prior to that one woman tour de force, Elizabeth wrote and performed a farce about the fictional Priscilla Tulip Spring, a woman who marries herself. As one of the founding artists of the University of Alabama in Birmingham’s Arts in Medicine (AIM) program, Elizabeth told stories to patients bedside, often including the patients’ caregivers and professional caregivers in the story. She also produced and co-hosted a celebration of UAB voices through StoryPower. Currently, Elizabeth facilitates Expressive Writing, through AIM, with people across the US and the UK who are living with SCI, MS, TM, and family caregivers of people with ALS. She is the Founder of TRUE listening and facilitates workshops in listening for children, educators, and professionals. Storytelling supports this listening work as Elizabeth asks participants: what did you hear? Which hopefully creates a story garden where listeners and tellers co-create. Her educational background includes a BS in Psychology from Spring Hill College and she is a Certified Behavior Change Specialist and Wellness Coach through the American Council on Exercise, a UAB Geriatric Scholar, and a Master Gardener. Elizabeth is credentialed through TimeSlips, a work for people living with dementia and in visual art, she is Certified Zentangle Teacher. Rooted in everything above is Elizabeth’s passion for listening and stories.