Curanderiando: Tales of Healing

Curanderiando: Tales of Healing is a bilingual storytelling/dance performance based on Legends of those who became healers in different indigenous cultures, The Maya (Guatemala), The Sapalla (Bolivia) and the Mapuches (Argentina). In the stories, the healers undergo a physical and spiritual journey and find guidance from plants, animals, other beings to help their communities.

Join us for a noche de cuentos on August 6 @ 7:00 p.m. at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (922 San Pedro). Parking will be at San Antonio College.

The program includes an hour of traditional tales performed/dance by the Carolina and artist Eleonor Maciel, followed by an intermission and a presentation about ¨Curanderismo ¨ by anthologist Elizabeth De La Portilla and Yerbero Jacinto Madrigal. The performances are free and family friendly. The whole performance requires the audience participation to convey the magic of stories and the power of healing.
In addition to the historical and mythical contents, the project wants people to reflect on their own ways to heal nowadays, as there are many caminos or paths to find balance within the self. The storytelling project encourages everyone to become sanadores of their own lives and to transform our communities. The stories educate the audience by remembering a common cultural knowledge that is linked to our own heritage.

About the Story Teller
Carolina Quiroga-Stultz is a Colombian Social Communicator who graduated in 2013 with a Masters in Storytelling from East Tennessee State University (ETSU). Her large repertoire of bilingual stories, explores the Native Latin American and Hispanic Myths, Legends and Mysteries ranging from North, Central and South America. On 2014, she was awarded “Outstanding Performer of the Year” by ETSU, and in December 2015 she became the recipient of the “J.J. RENEAUX EMERGING ARTIST GRANT” by the National Storytelling Network. Currently, she is one of the four teacher artist selected to undergo a year residency by the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts (Institute) at San Antonio.
In the United States, she has performed in many regional festivals in Tennessee, Texas and Kansas City, and also at numerous schools, libraries, universities and colleges to culturally and socially diverse audiences. As a performer in San Antonio, Carolina has presented her stories twice at NISD Story Fest, Tellabration, UTSA Storytelling Festival and four times at San Antonio College. In addition, she has performed Spooky Stories at Travis Park, Tellabration, Edinburg-Texas, Denton-Texas and the Tejas Storytelling Festival 2015. Also, representing the San Antonio Storytellers Association, she has reached out to community organizations to volunteer by performing stories at The Children’s Hospital, St. PJ’s Children’s Orphanage and John Paul Stevens High School. She has collaborated with SAY Sí to create a Storytelling performance for the Muertitos Fest 2015. Since October 2015, she has been teaching storytelling at The International Folk Culture Center at Our Lady of The Lake University. In March 2016, Carolina toured in Costa Rica with her shows: The Tatu’s Night and Las Animas (spooky tales). Carolina will be featured storyteller at: the Witte Museum during the summer of 2016 for the Mayan Exhibition: Hidden Worlds Revealed; George West Festival in November 2016, and the Tejas Storytelling Festival 2017.