The NEK-AAA
2009 EXPO will be held at the Fisher Center,
201 East Iowa, Hiawatha, Kansas on
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The
EXPO is Educational-Interesting-Fun!
Everyone is invited to attend.
SPEAKERS:
Kareen King is a
Registered Drama Therapist, recording artist, storyteller, puppeteer,
singer/songwriter and educator. She received her Masters Degree
in Theater with a concentration in Drama Therapy at Kansas State
University in 2006. Kareen’s CD, The Person in the Picture
Ain’t Me, features thirteen original songs written from the
viewpoint of the residents she served as activities supervisor at
Brookside Retirement Community. Kareen’s mission is to empower
others toward compassionate care-giving and adventurous aging. Kareen
is married to Jeff King, a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist. Together
they parent five children and make their home in Osage City, Kansas.
Kareen will be presenting an “Adventurous Aging!” workshop
at the Expo on Tuesday, September 22, in Hiawatha at the Fisher
Center, 201 E. Iowa St.
For more information and additional inspirational stories, visit
www.kareenking.com.
Rosie Cutrer has been
telling stories professionally for the past fourteen years presenting
at schools, libraries, museums and festivals. She has also been
invited to perform at the state storytelling festival in Downs,
Kansas, the St. Charles Missouri River Festival, The Land Rush Festival
in Choctaw, Oklahoma, The Tumbleweed Festival in Garden City and
the Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Nebraska. In 2007,
she was a regional teller at the National StorytellingConference
in St. Louis, Missouri.
Rosie learned the art of storytelling as a teacher, through her
studies of theater in college and later in professional and community
theater productions. Cutrer also has received storytelling coaching
from other area storytellers and at numerous national storytelling
conferences.
In between stories Rosie performs songs accompanying herself on
the banjo. You can learn more more about her programs at her website:
www.rosiecutrer.com.
Cutrer is a lifelong resident of Topeka, Kansas. She and her husband
Bill have eight grandkids who range in age from two to sixteen years
and yes she practices most of her material on her family. Rosie
finds that her family members are her best critics, especially the
kids. They'll tell her things abourt her stories and music that
adults might be afraid of saying. All in all Cutrer finds life on
the road as a storyteller personally fulfilling as well as interesting.
Who knows? She might find an interesting story to tell at the Expo
on Tuesday, September 22!
Sponsored by Morrill & Janes Bank & Trust, Hiawatha, KS.
Check back later for more details
regarding exhibitors and other activities.
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