Ph: (305) 945-4804
Fax: (305) 945-0302
Fax: (305) 945-0302
Cayvar@aol.com1829 NE 179th St.
North Miami Beach, Florida
U.S.A., 33162
Carrie Sue Ayvar
Cayvar@aol.com1829 NE 179th St.
North Miami Beach, Florida
U.S.A., 33162
From the time she could sit at the knees of her grandparents, listening to them tell their stories of the Old World or hearing her father recount show business adventures, through her move to Mexico as a teenager, Carrie Sue has been collecting and telling tales.
You can travel around the world with her on an imaginary journey. She takes you on an incredible bilingual exploration across the continents into other times and places using words, rhythms, movement and chants. With the simplest of phrases, "Habíase una vez/Once upon a time . . . " Carrie Sue's magical tales, in Spanish and English, celebrates both the similarities and the differences within our multi-cultural communities. Even if you have never spoken a word of Spanish before, you may find yourself repeating many phrases during and after her enchanting performances!
A nationally acclaimed bilingual storyteller, Carrie Sue Ayvar is dedicated to preserving and promoting the art of storytelling. Sharing her stories in both Spanish and English, Carrie Sue performs at schools, parks, libraries, community festivals, hospitals and museum outreach programs. She has developed and given storytelling workshops and lectures (including Keynote speeches). Believing that stories are one of the best means of explaining and passing on the beliefs, traditions and history that individuals or communities wish to keep alive, Carrie Sue tries to connect people, languages and cultures through her stories. She feels stories are the threads that are woven into the tapestry of time and the telling of them helps to develop language, critical and creative thinking skills as well as to build self-confidence and poise.
Her performances blend entertainment and education. Carrie Sue’s stories are filled with as much fun and surprises as her unique & colorful storyteller's apron from which she plucks information, inspiration & improvisations!
Her training includes The Kennedy Center program for the Performing Arts, “ Artists As Educators: Planning Effective Workshops for Teachers”, “Giving Cues: Developing Performance Materials for Young People” and the Broward Kennedy Center Team’s “Expanding the Scope of Performance Materials – From Arts Only to Integration Across the Curriculum”.
For over three years, always ready to enthusiastically share her fun, she worked with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit ® at Miami Children’s Hospital. bringing her stories, joy & laughter to patients, families and staff. Active in local and national storytelling guilds, she currently serves on the executive board of the Florida Storytelling Association, as State Liaison to the National Storytelling Network and is Chairman of the Florida “Youthful Voices” Storytelling Contest.
As a Chautauqua scholar and performance artist with the Florida Humanities Council’s Speakers Bureau, she shares some of Florida’s unique history with audiences throughout the state. These include:
Rose Weiss, called the Mother of Miami Beach, who, with persistence and a smile, fought prejudice, created jobs, helped the needy and guided the city from its earliest days. One person did make a difference.
Dr. Anna Darrow, “ Doc Anner, the Petticoat Doctor of the Everglades”, was a pioneer woman doctor who started medical school in 1903 just after giving birth to her second child. An accomplished award winning artist, she traveled through the swamps & glades of Florida treating any and all who needed her help no matter their color or backgrounds including fishermen, trappers, Seminole Indians and even dangerous outlaw gangs.
AUDIOCASSETTE
CUENTAME UN CUENTO/TELL ME A STORY Bilingual Stories told by Carrie Sue Ayvar
- La Hormiguita/The Little Ant
- La Mariposa/The Butterfly
- El Gato Comelón/The Gluttonous Cat
- Porqué El Gallo Canta en la Mañana/Why Rooster Crows in the Morning
- El Regalo Perfecto/The Perfect Gift
- La Gallinita Roja/The Little Red Hen