Wonder

Fueled

Storyteller Rachael Harrington, a woman with brown wavy hair turns towards the camera and smiles

STORYTELLING

to spark bright ideas 
& vibrant community

Your

favorite

facilitator

of

imagination

✶

Your favorite facilitator of imagination ✶

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Once an art teacher, now a storyteller,

I energize schools, arts & culture, & mission-driven business to turn disengagement into connection, curiosity, and creativity.

We are meant to be fully alive in imagination & human connection.

That’s why I’m on a storytelling mission

to create high-energy folktale performances, workshops & media that get communities buzzing with:

  • imagination

  • engaged learning

  • social emotional skills

Work With Me

Featured  Storytelling  Services

SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES & CLASS VISITS

It’s time to celebrate! Turn your students into highly engaged learners who listen deeply, retain information, love literacy, and think outside the box.

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Rev up your audiences’ imagination with performances that captivate and build authentic community, putting your mission & themes front & center.

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Inspire educators to infuse their lessons and classrooms with storytelling that drives student growth.

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* Dynamic team building for companies & non-profits

* Performances for corporate family day events

* Professional Learning for museum & library educators

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Check Out The Podcast That Builds Creative Independence

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Check Out The Podcast That Builds Creative Independence 〰️

The Fairy Tale Art Cart is an interactive draw-along storytelling podcast where your kids get to become the illustrators of the stories they listen to!

This 5-star, top 100 podcast will have your kids begging for one more story!

Screen-free creative time for your kids, made easy!

The Fairy Tale Art Cart Podcast keeps your kids independently entertained with imaginative storytelling, drawing prompts, and music filled illustration breaks.

Want to create a calm, fun screen-free environment? All you need is paper, crayons, and 20-30 minutes

Each episode blends a folktale with creative drawing prompt breaks so that kids become the illustrators of the part of the story they just listened to.

Venture To The Podcast Page
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Listen on:

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with your host Rachael Harrington

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UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

february

  • 12pm. Learn more on the library website

  • My Story/Our Story Workshop. Learn more about The Sunrise Association.

  • Performing as part of the winter storytelling festival. Learn more about the museum on the website

  • 10 week artist-in-residence program where 3rd graders learn how to perform a folktale for an audience.

  • Artist-in-residence classroom visit series to inspire engaged literacy and social emotional skills.

march

  • 12pm. Learn more on the library website.

  • Artist-in-residency classroom visit series to inspire engaged literacy and social emotional skills.

  • Artist-in-residency classroom visits plus assembly programs to inspire engaged literacy and social emotional skills.

  • Artist-in-residency program where third grades learn about storytelling and how to perform a folktale to an audience.

april

  • 2pm. Learn more on the library website

  • Dates and Times TBA.

  • An assembly program featuring Celebrate Reading!

  • 12pm. Learn more on the library website.

  • 10am. Learn more on the library website.

  • 2pm. Learn more on the library website.

In The Media

Bringing folk & fairy tales to life so that you can create a community buzzing with imagination and social emotional growth. Using the power of storytelling to increase engagement, literacy, vocabulary retention, and creative problem solving in students of all ages.

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