VillageSoup advances John Bear Mitchell’s storytelling at Strand

VillageSoup promoted Penobscot storyteller John Bear Mitchell’s appearance at 5 p.m. March 14 at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. Mitchell, a citizen of the Penobscot Nation from Indian Island, will share Wabanaki stories. Mitchell serves as the University of Maine System Office Native American Waiver and Educational Program Coordinator, the University of Maine’s Wabanaki Center Outreach and Student Development Coordinator, and is a lecturer of Wabanaki Studies and Multicultural Studies at the University of Maine. For 15 years, Mitchell was a Maine Touring Artist, and visited 150 schools to deliver an Arts in Education program. He also toured with the Native American Storytellers of New England. His singing and storytelling is in many Maine PBS, tribal-sponsored awareness videos, independent films, HBO Lionsgate TV, and documentaries with topics on Maine’s Native People. Admission is free. For more information, visit rocklandstrand.com; call 207.594.0070, ext. 3; or email info@rocklandstrand.com.