Nationally known storyteller Tim Tingle will be at GCC on Thursday, Feb. 2, to offer a workshop, “Storytelling for Life’s Classroom.”

The workshop will begin at 1 p.m. in the PAC and will be free of charge, courtesy of the GCC Speakers’ Forum. (You surely will never have another chance to attend a Tim Tingle workshop without paying a lot for it!).

On Saturday, Feb. 4, at 6:30 p.m., Tingle will give a storytelling concert at the West Valley Art Museum (114th Avenue and W. Bell Road in Surprise). Admission is $7, $3 for children under 14.

Tingle is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. A powerful conference speaker and popular festival performer, he was featured at the 2002 National Storytelling Festival. Tim has performed as a featured storyteller in festivals covering a 30-state area, and in 2004 he was a Teller-In-Residence at the International Storytelling Center.

His book Walking the Choctaw Road (2003), a collection of stories based on interviews with tribal elders, was named Storytelling World Magazine's Best Anthology for 2003. Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma selected it as Book of the Year for 2005, as did Alaska Reads!, marking the first time in the history of the one-book-one-state movement that a single book has been selected by two states in the same year.

Texas Ghost Stories: Fifty Favorites for the Telling (2004), co-authored with Doc Moore, is now in its third printing and was also chosen by Storytelling World as the year's Best Anthology.