Event 1 of The mirror by Pleasant Despain
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Event 1 of The mirror by Pleasant Despain
- A multicultural storyteller, traveller, and author, Pleasant DeSpain was born in 1943. She has written numerous multicultural tale collections and picture books, many of which are utilised in elementary schools and libraries as teaching resources. In the United States, Canada, Mexico, Thailand, Southeast Asia, and Central America, he has performed in more than 3,000 classrooms, theatres, conventions, libraries, and churches.
- DeSpain has also been a featured storyteller at events held all over the country, such as the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, the Tales of Arizona Festival in Tucson, and the Corn Island Storytelling Festival in Louisville, where he gave a performance in front of 16,000 spectators.
- DeSpain is referred to as "a pioneer of the American renaissance in storytelling" by Jimmy Neil Smith, who also founded the National Storytelling Festival and the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation (later to become the International Storytelling Center).
- DeSpain began his career in education in 1966 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst as a speech communication and oral literature lecturer. He received a fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He quit the doctoral programme to start his global travels after spending two years in Colorado researching and instructing. Nine months later, DeSpain received an invitation from the University of Washington in Seattle to join their faculty.
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