Storyteller Lisa Facciponti will visit Lafayette College for three presentations as part of Lafayette s 1999-2000 Roethke Humanities Festival. She will lead a workshop in traditional Greek circle dancing at 9 p.m. Monday, November 1, in the Marlo Room of the Farinon Center, a presentation cosponsored by the recreational sports program.
All events are free and open to the public.
Roethke published several critically acclaimed volumes of poetry, including The Waking , winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. A resident of Lower Nazareth Township, Pa., Facciponti became involved in storytelling in the early 1990s while teaching marine science classes to preschool and elementary-school students at Mystic Marinelife Aquarium in Connecticut. She founded a storytelling guild with some friends while working at Mystic and living nearby in Rhode Island. Now an adjunct professor at Northampton Community College, her recent engagements include presentations to audiences as diverse as the National Canal Museum in Easton, Hanover Elementary School in Hanover Township, Pa., and a storytelling festival in Rhode Island. She has given other performances at schools, libraries, coffeehouses, hospitals, women's celebrations, and holiday events.