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Photos 2017

2017
Story telling at the HCA Statue.
• Robin Bady with children
• Youth storyteller from NYC school
• Robin Bady with children
• Ambassador Anne Dorte Riggelsen
• Bill Gordh playing music and telling stories

Photos by Anne-Mette Elkjær Andersen

Photos 2016

Photos from 2016 Storytelling Season

Photos 2015

October 24, 2015, Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Storytelling in Central Park!
Photos by Camilla Marstrand Golden

Storytellers

duckling

October 24, 2015
Celebrating 60 years of Story telling at the HCA Statue.
• Special 60th Anniversary cake by The Cake Boss
• Story telling by Laura Simms
• Rolf Stang (as H.C. Andersen)
• Music by Jimmy Mora Silva, classical guitar
• Music by Andrew Forbes, bagpipe

cake Rolf Stang

Photos 2013

Photos by Laura Simms.

Photos 2011

Photos by Hanne Pico Larsen and Anne-Mette Elkjær Andersen

2011
Story telling season at the HCA Statue.

the sign Duckling with listeners

HC-Andersen

duckling statue

Photos 2005

Photos by Else Matthews.

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Hans Christian Andersen statue
(Ugly Duckling) in Central Park New York.

2005
Performers at the at the opening of the story telling season at the HCA Statue, Hans Christian Andersen (Rolf Stang), Jenny Lind (Eva Engeman), Ole Buhl (James Everett Graseck) and the Central Park Brass (David Spier, Trumpet and Trombone player).

The Central Park Brass Lead the guests through Central Park from the HCA Statue to the luncheon on the roof deck of the Arsenal.

Performers at the luncheon on the roof deck of the Arsenal in Central Park, Hans Christian Andersen (Rolf Stang), Jenny Lind (Eva Engeman), and Ole Buhl (James Everett Graseck)

Speech by Central Park & Recreation Commissioner, Adrian Benepe while HCASTC President Lennard Rambusch listens.

8-year old Reagan Walker from the Hans Christian Andersen School in Harlem won first prize in the Hans Christian Andersen storytelling contest, and a trip to Denmark.

Second Place winner and Andersen (Rolf Stang) celebrate at Scandinavia House.

These two and other New York City students told "The Princess and The Pea" to Denmarks HRH Prince Frederik and Princess Mary.

Photos 2006

Photos by Anne-Mette Elkjær Andersen

Diane Wolkstein telling stories - in front of about half the audience.

Diane Wolkstein tells Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales

Diane Wolkstein telling stories by the Hans Christian Andersen Statue.

Laura Sims

Laura Sims telling stories by the Hans Christian Andersen Statue.

Story telling in Central Park little girl on Duckling statue

Some of the audience for story telling.

Little girl riding the Ugly Duckling in front of the HCA Statue.

President of HCASTC, Lennard Rambusch (middle), gives Chief of Operations for Central Park, Nelson Nicklos (right), and President of the Central Park Conservatory, Douglas Blonsky (left) ugly ducklings convertibleans as a token of HCASTC's appreciation of support received for the story telling program.