INTERVIEW: Regina is on the Board of Healing Voices-Personal Stories, a small film company with the mission to raise awareness of domestic violence. She and founder JoAnne Tucker were interviewed by Dr. Melanie Harth for radio station KSFR; a video of that interview is available on line. The arts are a profound way to address and help heal trauma.

September 10, 2023 - As Is Told Storytelling Series
WALKING THE FINE LINE: LIGHT, DARK, AND DAFFODILS.
Regina Ress and Abbas Mousa will share stories of good and evil, trials and triumphs from their lives, from history, and from the imagination of Hans Christian Andersen. The stories take us from the streets of Baghdad to the gardens of New York City, from the actions of tyrants to the power of individual action against tyranny.
Sunday, September 10, Albuquerque, NM
https://www.storytellersofnewmexico.org/calendar/blog/as-is-told-2-c2lfe-lj68t?fbclid=IwAR1A1mQPdLLXsZTPY6stean1Thw-uMX5C52iDNABf9kWX5qbex16WZqmyiA
August 4,5, 2023~ STORYTELLING IN THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND, NYU
New York University, Steinhardt School/Program in Educational Theatre
This weekend graduate course explores the wide world of storytelling. Participants discover that story telling is an essential human activity…from storytelling’s role in traditional society to modern, personal storytelling. As well, we explore its many applications in a variety of settings in contemporary society. EdTheatre@NYU.edu
July 8, 2023 ~~HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN STORYTELLING SERIES, NYC
Regina is back in the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling series in NY's Central Park to tell Andersen’s "The Most Incredible Thing," which celebrates the triumph of creative spirit over destructive impulse, love over hate. Join storytellers Jean Hale, Ron Sopyla and Regina as they tell some great Andersen tales. This year, she celebrates her 30th year in the series. Is she delighted? You bet! Saturday, July 8; 11:00- noon, HCA Statue, on the east side of the model boat pond, near 72nd. St and Fifth Ave. FREE
May 18, 2023__OFF THE PAGE!
Regina had the delight of telling two Hans Christian Andersen tales, The Wicked Prince and The Most Incredible Thing, for a literary stories event that Lucinda DeLorimier and Mary Ellen Gonzalez ahd she presented in conjunction with the Santa Fe International Literary Festival.
A wonderful variety of stories and storytelling styles, a cozy bookstore location, and a great audience. What a delight to be back performing in person! The Travel Bug Bookstore, Santa Fe, 6, PM
May 15, 2023~ STORY CAFE-on line interview
Regina was interviewed and told a beautiful story, The Young Weaver, on Karen Langford Chase's Story Cafe. Thank you so much Karen! If you don't have time to watch to the entire show right now, check out the story Regina shared which starts at the 10:32 mark. It is a story given to her by its author, the Brazilian writer Marina Colasanti. http://cable9.dyndns.org/CablecastPublicSite/show/8726?channel=1fbclid=IwAR3YQTbc5duO95iSfYcCvMZJ1k1FUSUeTrIAG7REVpvVJZUqJ8tFfezNrEA
April 8, 2023~~ TRADITIONS and TRUTH
Regina is the featured teller for this OpenMic sponsored by Storytelling.org. She tells three stories of being captured~ whether by another or by our own mistakes~ and how we may then choose to be free and find a way out.
7:00 PM Central Time, Zoom
March 25-26, 2023 "Storytelling in the Classroom and Beyond"
New York University, Steinhardt/Music and Performing Arts Professions. With graduate students from many different departments, this weekend intensive is always fun and interesting.
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Calendar updates stopped in September, 2020. Regina did not!
All programming was on line until October 2021 and has been a mix of online & in person since. The calendar needs to be filled in and updated. To see what she has been doing since 2020, check her Face Book page:
https://www.facebook.com/ReginaRessStoryteller
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Santa Fe StoryCrafters
Regina and Lucinda de Lorimier co-host a monthly gathering of storytelling enthusiasts to work on the craft of telling stories-whether traditional, personal, or literary. It is generally held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the Storytellers of New Mexico website for updates.
September 24th, 2020 ZOOMCARE BEHIND BARS
Rosa Zerrudo, cultural worker and a community-teaching artist in the Philippines, invited Regina to bring some stories and storytelling to a group of women inmates in the Iloilo City jail. It was part of the series of healing arts workshops she leads for them. Regina told stories and discussed the situations, metaphors, and ideas in the stories in relation to the women's lives. Regina has brought multi-arts programs to a number of women's prisons in the US, but this was a double first: in the Philippines and on-line. A challenging and profound experience. |
September 16, 2020 - Santa Fe StoryCrafters (ongoing monthly)
Regina and Lucinda de Lorimier co-host a monthly gathering of storytelling enthusiasts to work on the craft of telling stories-whether traditional, personal, or literary. It is generally held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the Storytellers of New Mexico website for updates. |
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September 11, 2020 ~~ Oral Tradition, Social Justice, and Climate Change
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September 5, 2020 - HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN STORYTELLING SERIES (ONLINE) Regina is thrilled to be back with the Hans Christian Andersen Storytellers sharing the hour with old friends: Valentina Ortiz telling The Little Fir Tree and Robin Bady telling The Children's Prattle. Regina's story, The Wicked Prince, was one of two Andersen tales that were banned by the Nazis and circulated in the Underground. . Laura Simms and Simon Brooks host the show. We'll be coming to you from our hearts, if not from NY's Central Park. Saturday, Sept.5th, 11 AM Eastern time on Facebook and YouTube. The program was archived. Regina was the second storyteller. The sound at the beginning of her storys funky but quickly fixed)
.www.facebook.com/HCAStoryCenter/videos/622982935076222/?comment_id=623390595035456¬if_id=1599319831408091¬if_t=comment_mention&ref=notif
.www.facebook.com/HCAStoryCenter/videos/622982935076222/?comment_id=623390595035456¬if_id=1599319831408091¬if_t=comment_mention&ref=notif
September 11-12-13, 2020 - New York University (on-line)
STORYTELLING in the LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
New York University's Steinhardt School, Department of Teaching/Learning, Program in Multilingual/Multicultural Studies.
Storytelling dynamically engages us in the act of learning. This highly experiential workshop explores how the storytelling can enhance foundational skills practice while encouraging cross-cultural awareness and personal expression, engage the “whole learner” and the “multiple intelligences and support a creative and communicative classroom. (The class will be on Zoom)
Storytelling dynamically engages us in the act of learning. This highly experiential workshop explores how the storytelling can enhance foundational skills practice while encouraging cross-cultural awareness and personal expression, engage the “whole learner” and the “multiple intelligences and support a creative and communicative classroom. (The class will be on Zoom)
August, 2020: Regina is featured in Healing Voices-Personal Stories latest film, Out of the Shadow: Shining Light on Domestic Violence
Healing Voices-Personal Stories film company, hv-ps.org, has completed our latest film on domestic violence. In 2019, we coordinated a National Day of Action Against Domestic Violence. Groups across the US presented events that included dance, drama, storytelling, and music performances along with speeches and a ritual "Die-In" to visually demonstrate the horrifying truth that thousands of women are murdered each year by their intimate partner. The film highlights some of the events. https://vimeo.com/449019878 |
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August 12, 2020 - Santa Fe StoryCrafters (ongoing monthly)
Regina and Lucinda de Lorimier co-host a monthly gathering of storytelling enthusiasts to work on the craft of telling stories-whether traditional, personal, or literary. It is generally held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the Storytellers of New Mexico website for updates.
Regina and Lucinda de Lorimier co-host a monthly gathering of storytelling enthusiasts to work on the craft of telling stories-whether traditional, personal, or literary. It is generally held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the Storytellers of New Mexico website for updates.
July 15, 2020 - Santa Fe StoryCrafters (ongoing monthly)
Regina and Lucinda de Lorimier co-host a monthly gathering of storytelling enthusiasts to work on the craft of telling stories-whether traditional, personal, or literary. It is generally held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the Storytellers of New Mexico website for updates.
Regina and Lucinda de Lorimier co-host a monthly gathering of storytelling enthusiasts to work on the craft of telling stories-whether traditional, personal, or literary. It is generally held on the second Wednesday of each month. Check the Storytellers of New Mexico website for updates.

June 17, 2020 Healing Story Alliance Meeting
Regina was co-host with Mike Seliger for the Healing Story Alliance's weekly gathering "Keeping our Oars in the Water: Gathering to bear witness to experiences and stories of vulnerability and resilience during these turbulent times." These gatherings have been offered by the Healing Story Alliance each Wednesday at 7 PM Eastern time, as a service to the storytelling Community. www.facebook.com/healingstoryalliance/
Regina was co-host with Mike Seliger for the Healing Story Alliance's weekly gathering "Keeping our Oars in the Water: Gathering to bear witness to experiences and stories of vulnerability and resilience during these turbulent times." These gatherings have been offered by the Healing Story Alliance each Wednesday at 7 PM Eastern time, as a service to the storytelling Community. www.facebook.com/healingstoryalliance/
June 13, 2020 – ALBUQUERQUE FOLK FESTIVAL
Regina returns to the Albuquerque Folk Festival with some delightful folk tales. One story was recorded at the Hans Christian Andersen storytelling series in NYC's Central Park; the second story was recorded at an international storytelling festival in Ambato, Ecuador. Good fun! and free.
Regina's program is on June 13th at 1:30 PM, Mountain Time. Click here to join the fun! |
June 13, 2020 - HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN STORYTELLING SERIES ONLINE

Regina returns for her 28th year in this iconic storytelling series with an unusual Hans Christian Andersen story, The Most Incredible Thing. This story and another of HCA's less well know stories, the Wicked Prince, were banned by the Nazis and circulated in the Underground. Tune in and hear a parable for our times. The Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Series will be live streamed on Facebook and on YouTube – and recorded sessions are available there afterwards.
11:00AM Eastern Time Watch at facebook.com/HCAStoryCenter
11:00AM Eastern Time Watch at facebook.com/HCAStoryCenter
MOTH-A-LOGUE / RANT-A-LOGUE
May 31, 2020 ~ Julesworks Follies # 63: Not Quite Live Safely Quarantimed
Regina is delighted to be part of a madly wonderful melange of music and spoken word for this premiere of Julesworks Follies #63 Not Quite Live Safely Quarantimed Edition, Annual(Ish) Not Quite Anniversary Birthdays Salute. She's got a story about the invasion of the moth people in Santa Fe this month. Tune in! Sunday May 31st starting at 4 pm on the Jean Cocteau Virtual Cinema website. Click here to watch!
STORIES FROM THE LONGHOUSE
May 15, 2020 - FEAST (Federation of Asian Storytellers)

9.00AM EST / 1.30PM UK / 8.30pm Singapore LIVE ON ZOOM
Regina joins storytellers Hears Crow, Papa Joe Gaudet, Jonathan Cummings, Cassandra Wye, and Roger Jenkins to share stories from some native American and Borneo communities geographically distant yet connected by a similar social unit. Regina will tell a selection from the Kelabit epic Adi, Song of Agan, from Sarawak. It's bard, Niar Ayu, chanted the story for two nights in a Kelabit longhouse when American poet Carol Rubenstein was recording poetry (1971). Due to outside interference with the tribe, that was the last time Niar Ayu sang Adi, Song of Agan in its entirety. feast-story.org/events
Click here to watch!
Regina joins storytellers Hears Crow, Papa Joe Gaudet, Jonathan Cummings, Cassandra Wye, and Roger Jenkins to share stories from some native American and Borneo communities geographically distant yet connected by a similar social unit. Regina will tell a selection from the Kelabit epic Adi, Song of Agan, from Sarawak. It's bard, Niar Ayu, chanted the story for two nights in a Kelabit longhouse when American poet Carol Rubenstein was recording poetry (1971). Due to outside interference with the tribe, that was the last time Niar Ayu sang Adi, Song of Agan in its entirety. feast-story.org/events
Click here to watch!
PORTRAIT OF NEW YORK TOUGH:
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AND THEN THE VOLCANO ERUPTED: A Love Story
April 3-5, 2020 ~ Sharing the Fire, NEST Annual Conference
(conference cancelled)
STORYTELLING INTENSIVE
March 27& 28, 2020 - New York University (held on-line)
New York University, Steinhardt School/Program in Educational Theatre (held on Zoom)
This weekend graduate course explores the wide world of storytelling. Participants discover that story telling is an essential human activity…from storytelling’s role in traditional society to modern, personal storytelling. As well, we explore its many applications in a variety of settings in contemporary society. EdTheatre@NYU.edu
This weekend graduate course explores the wide world of storytelling. Participants discover that story telling is an essential human activity…from storytelling’s role in traditional society to modern, personal storytelling. As well, we explore its many applications in a variety of settings in contemporary society. EdTheatre@NYU.edu
WORLD STORYTELLING DAY
March 20, 2020 -Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque and
March 21, 2020 -Open Space Visitor Center, Albuquerque (cancelled)

Regina joins the Storytellers of New Mexico and storytellers around the world for this years's World Storytelling Day. The theme this year is Voyages. Regina has taken a few, Where will she take us to celebrate the arrival of Spring? Come find out!
- Friday evening at the beautiful Tortuga Gallery, stories for adults and youth 12 and older. With Scott and Johanna Hongell-Darsee, Matilde Machiavello, and Jude Tripp. Regina will be telling a section of Adi, Song of Agan, an ancient epic from the Kelabit people of Borneo. 7PM
- Saturday afternoon, Voyages for the whole family, with Sarah Malone, Elaine Muray, and Matilde Machiavello. 1:30PM at the Open Space Visitor Center (OSVC).
LOVE STORIES FOR VALENTINE DAY
February 14, 2020 - Kingston Residence, Santa Fe, NM
Celebrate Valentine's Day with storyteller Regina Ress as she tells stories about love. From the birth of Cupid (his original name was Kama) to an old Celtic tale, to a contemporary story of love, these stories are better than a box of chocolate!
Kingston Residence of Santa Fe , 2400 Legacy Ct, Santa Fe, NM 87507 2:30 PM
Kingston Residence of Santa Fe , 2400 Legacy Ct, Santa Fe, NM 87507 2:30 PM
STORYTELLING at the PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE, NYC
Regina produces and hosts a storytelling series for New York University at an historic Greenwich Village theatre, The Provincetown Playhouse. Now in its 20th year, the series features national and internationally renowned storytellers with a wide variety of styles and stories.
February 9th-Regina Ress with musician Michael Moss, April 26th-Alton Takiyama-Chung (cancelled); May 10th-Jamie Brickhouse (cancelled)
The Provincetown Playhouse-133 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, NYC. See more at the NYU Steinhardt page!
The Provincetown Playhouse-133 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, NYC. See more at the NYU Steinhardt page!
BUTTONS FOR THE RESISTANCE AND OTHER LOVE STORIES
February 9, 2020 - The Provincetown Playhouse, NYC
Regina Ress wears a red button affirming “CHOOSE LOVE” wherever she goes. It opens up a lot of conversations. As February is the month to celebrate love, Regina will share stories that explore some of its many forms, from eros to agape. Joining Regina for this romp through the entanglements of love is jazz composer Michael Moss. As for her CHOOSE LOVE button, Regina muses, “If someone has a problem with that, they obviously have a problem.”
February 1, 2020 - Scandinavia House, NYC
Tales of Tricky Trolls, Clever Billy Goats, and a Pancake that escapes from the pan! Stories from Norway and Sweden followed by a workshop in creating a puppet for retelling the tales. Join storyteller Regina Ress and artist-educator Melkorka Helgadottir for some Sunday Storytelling fun. Scandinaviahouse.org 58 Park Avenue, NYC
January 30 & 31, 2020 - Manorhaven School, Long Island
Regina has been invited to bring Norwegian Folk tales for Manorhaven's celebration of Norwegian culture.
WISDOM TALES FOR A WINTER DAY
January 13, 2020 - Kingston Residence, Santa Fe, NM
Storyteller Regina Ress shares delightful and thought provoking stories from around the world and some lessons she's learned along the way.
Kingston Residence of Santa Fe , 2400 Legacy Ct, Santa Fe, NM 87507 2:30 PM
Kingston Residence of Santa Fe , 2400 Legacy Ct, Santa Fe, NM 87507 2:30 PM