2023 Schedule
Ojai Storytelling Festival
●●● ALL SEATS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED ●●●
Schedule subject to change.
Please note, all ticket purchases will show on your bank or credit card statement as Performances to Grow On.
We love dogs but not at the festival. Thank you!
Senior tickets are for adults 65 and over. Child tickets are for children under age 16.
A purple star denotes events especially designed for young children, families and school groups.
The following handling fees apply when purchasing online, by phone, or during the festival:
• $4 handling fee per ticket (individual performances)
• $5-15 handling fee (total) for each Ticket Package (multiple performances)
Note: After September 15, all ticket packages increase $15 and individual shows increase $5
Adult (16+) $250
Senior (65+) $240
(Child Everything Pass not available)
Everything Pass -
Adult & Senior Ticket:
All shows, Thursday through Sunday, except A Land Twice Promised. If you will not be attending all 4 days including late night events, opt for the Weekend Pass.
Does not include Sunday's A Land Twice Promised.
Adult (16+) $185
Senior (65+) $175
Child (under 16) $100
Weekend Pass -
Adult, Senior & Child Ticket:
Includes Friday through Sunday shows-except Naughty Tales.
Does not include Thursday events or Naughty Tales.
Adult (16+) Starts at $115
Senior (65+) Starts at $100
Child (under 16) $65
Enjoy four Saturday Shows
Includes Timeless Tales, Wit & Whimsy, Magical Mashups, and Twilight Tales.
Includes all Saturday shows except Naughty Tales.
Story Slam
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Ojai Art Center
113 Montgomery St, Ojai
ASL Interpretation at this show!
Click here for details on how to enter!
Music after the slam TBD!
Seniors $25
Child $20 (12 and over)
Thursday
Thursday, October 26
Meet the Tellers: Reception with the Storytellers
with Noa Baum, Reverend Robert Jones Jr., Peter Cook, Vijai Nathan, Antonio Sacre, Tim Lowry.
3:30-5:00pm
Ojai Art Center Patio
113 S Montgomery St, Ojai
ASL Interpretation at this show!
How did the tellers find their stories? Or did the stories find them?
Wine for purchase.
Light appetizers provided.
Adults $40
Seniors $35
Child $20
Thursday
Friday, October 27
Workshop: Noa Baum
Hidden Treasures: Your Story as a Gift
We all have a treasure trove of stories to share. Discover how a memory can be shaped into a story and become a gift worth passing on. Through interactive activities of speaking, listening, and writing, you will develop a story from your life that can inspire others
Friday 2 - 3:30pm
Ojai Art Center Patio
113 S Montgomery St, Ojai
Tickets: $25
Friday
Almost every family has a “family historian”. Sometimes this is an elder, a grandmother or grandfather and they are able to spin a story about the past that can keep you spellbound for hours. If you are blessed with such people, value them! On the other hand, there is a person that frequently bores you to death a family reunions and gatherings with obscure tales and secrets that most folks in your family don’t know and couldn’t care less about. Learn to value this person, as well! They often keep the archives and treasures from which you will build your stories. Their stories are neither boring nor annoying, their delivery is! Like an instrument builder that sees a fiddle in a dirty chunk of wood, you will learn to look for the characteristics of a good story in places that most others ignore.
Friday 2 - 3:30pm
Ojai Art Center Patio
113 S Montgomery St, Ojai
Tickets: $25
Friday
Laughing Night starting w/ music by The Salty Suites
with Antonio Sacre, Peter Cook,
Rev. Robert Jones, Noa Baum, Vijai Nathan
Salty Suites - 6:00 – 7:00pm
Laughing Night - 7:00-9:00pm
Libbey Bowl
210 S. Signal St, Ojai
ASL Interpretation at this show!
Adults $40
Seniors $35
Children $20
(Save $5 per ticket for groups of 10 or more with code GROUP)
Friday
Workshop: Andy Gilman, Agora Foundation
Story Saves the Day: When Demonstration and Logic Fail,
Story Heaves Up the TruthJoin the Agora Foundation for this free community seminar on the power of story. Why do some of philosophy's greatest thinkers rely on storytelling when they are striving to convey difficult principles? Beyond emotion, what can story convey that demonstration leaves anemic?
The reading is: Short selections from Plato, Aristotle, Chuang Tzu, Nietzsche, and Kafka
Friday 2 - 3:30pm
Ojai Art Center
113 S Montgomery St, Ojai
Friday
Fall Stories for Upper Grades
Grades 4 and Up
with Vijai Nathan, Robert Jones, Noa Baum and Antonio Sacre
11:15am –12:30pm
Ojai Art Center Patio
(venue subject to change)
Adult $25
Child $20
Friday
Tim Lowry
Fall Stories for Primary Students
Grades K-3
with Antonio Sacre, Peter Cook and Tim Lowry
9:30 – 10:30am
Libbey Bowl
(venue subject to change)
Adult $25
Child $20
Friday
Saturday, October 28
Twilight Tales starting w/ Music by Dan Navarro
with Vijai Nathan, Noa Baum, Antonio Sacre, Peter Cook and Rev. Robert Jones
Music: 5:00 to 6:00pm
Stories: 6:00 to 8:00pm
Libbey Bowl
210 S. Signal St, Ojai
ASL Interpretation at this show!
Adult: $40
Senior: $35
Child: $20
Save $5 per ticket for groups of 10 or more with code GROUP at checkout.
Saturday
Sunday, October 29
Story Swap w/ Special Guest Storytellers!
Tim Lowry, Noa Baum, Rev. Robert Jones
Sunday 9:00 - 10:15am
Ojai Art Center Patio
113 S Montgomery St, Ojai
Come try your hand at the art of storytelling and receive tips from a mystery pro or two!
Sunday
Happy Trails starting w/ music by Ojai Madrigali
Continental Breakfast
with Tim Lowry, Peter Cook, Noa Baum,
Rev. Robert Jones, Vijai Nathan
10:30am – 1:00pm
Ojai Art Center Patio
113 S Montgomery St, Ojai
Adult: $40
Senior: $35
Child: $20
Sunday
And an extra special addition to the festival...
(12 and over only please)
This show not included in any passes
A Land Twice Promised
Noa Baum
Sunday, October 29
5:00pm
Jewish Community of Ojai
530 El Roblar St, Ojai
Adult $30
Senior $25
Child $20
The Show
Israeli storyteller Noa Baum began a heartfelt dialogue with a Palestinian woman while living in the United States. She weaves together their memories, and their mothers’ stories, to create a moving testimony that illuminates the complex and contradictory history and emotions surrounding Jerusalem, for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Books will be available to purchase onsite and Noa will be happy to sign your copy!
The Book
Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she met a Palestinian woman who had grown up under Israeli Occupation, and as they shared memories of war years in Jerusalem, an unlikely friendship blossomed.
A Land Twice Promised delves into the heart of one of the world’s most enduring and complex conflicts. Baum’s deeply personal memoir recounts her journey from girlhood in post-Holocaust Israel to her adult encounter with “the other.” With honesty, compassion, and humor, she captures the drama of a nation at war and her discovery of humanity in the enemy.
Winner of the 2017 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award, among others, this compelling memoir demonstrates the transformative power of art and challenges each reader to take the first step toward peace.
The Ojai Storytelling Festival is presented by Performances to Grow On, a non-profit organization. Support our programs with a tax-deductible donation. In these tough times, donations in any amount make a difference. Don’t have a lot to give? No problem. All it takes is $1 to make a difference in a child's life. Have a little more to give? You can also make contributions on behalf of friends and family…