Coyote Makes Some Friends — for Libraries 2023

StoryFaces performances for 2023 Library Summer Reading programs

An original tale in which Coyote discovers that not only does it feel good to be helpful, it can also be the start of an adventure.

The StoryFaces show I’m putting together for libraries this coming summer features a new version of the first story I told using facepainting on stage. Coyote Makes Some Friends is my original, modernized folktale about a mischievous spirit that comes down from the moon and uses the colors of nature to make his animal friends so they can all help to fill the world with life.

The show will include my interactive retelling of Aesop’s Fable about kindness, The Lion And the Mouse, with its message that “a kindness is never wasted, for even small acts can have great results”.

Plus a renewed version of one of my favorite hero tales, The Tail of the Dragon. Based on a legend from China that is hundreds of years old, in which a brave and thoughtful young woman, and her faithful family dog, choose to face the Great Dragon of the Mountain.

My StoryFaces programs also include the Amazing Face Story Activity which provides kids and families an after show activity to create their own visual story starring themselves as demonstrated in my performance.

Three photos grouped together of people with painted faces. One depicting a lion and a small mouse, the second is a dragon, and the third illustrates the Tail of the Dragon story with a dragon, a dog and the female hero makeup.

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2022— StoryFaces was presented as a special event in three performances at the 50th annual National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN

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Christopher Agostino’s StoryFaces is an exciting storytelling show in which I paint the faces of audience volunteers to illustrate the stories as I tell them, captivating the audience with my uniquely animated tales.

A typical performance runs 60 minutes, with 4 or 5 stories involving 5 – 10 volunteers being facepainted onstage as I tell my tales. Like a magician would do, I pick my volunteers from the audience to be part of the show onstage while I am also engaging the full audience with my stories and additional audience involvement.

It is an unusual show, with this unique combination of stories and visual art, so you might also want to watch the video: What Is A StoryFace?

Please CONTACT US with any questions, or to schedule a performance.

Email to: info@agostinoarts.com

Science On Your Face — World Science Festival 2014

Jun4

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We were back at one of our favorite New York events this past weekend: The Ultimate Science Street Fair of the World Science Festival. I mean, where else would you ever get the opportunity to turn someone into a Higgs Boson? Or a Bunson Burner? For an adventurous artist like me, this is facepainting at it’s most fun. Here are some of my favorite faces from this year’s event:

: Higgs Boson

: Bunson Burner

: Einstein

: Newton and the Big Apple

: Earth Science Teacher

: Evolution

: Atom

: Our Galaxy on her Face

: Mars Rover landing

: Robotics

: Synthetic Human

: Climate Change

: Solar Eclipse

: Curved Space Time

: First Woman on the Moon

: Cave Art – painted by Phil

: Pollination

: Pollination

: Milky Way Galaxy

: Nebula and Octopus

: Nebula

: She’s flying Ben Franklin’s Kite

: Mars Rover

: StoryFace: Li Chi Slays the Dragon

: Chemistry

: Particle Accelerator

: Atom on a Science Teacher

: Turtles All the Way Down

This year the festival was focusing on robotics, weather and astronomy. I’m enough of a science geek that I love collecting the stories and images for new science faces each year.

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Elephant Face Painting Gallery — Run for the Wild at the Bronx Zoo 2013

Apr22

It’s Earth Day today, and a beautiful morning. We are getting ready for this spring’s Run for the Wild at the Bronx Zoo on April 26, an annual family event in which runners gather early in the morning at the zoo to run and raise funds for all the work that the Wildlife Conservation Society does to preserve the environment around the world. The facepainting will be free for participants in this event, from 7:00 – 9:30 am. The annual Run for the Wild events are great fun and a unique way to enjoy the zoo while helping wildlife. Please come and enjoy a wonderful morning at the zoo!

Each year the Run for the Wild features an iconic animal as “poster child”, and this is the second year to feature the elephant. Elephant populations are currently under direct threat from poaching (65% of the African Forest Elephant population have been killed between 2005 and 2012), and the WCS and other organizations are pushing to protect them both by their efforts in the field and by working to enact laws to ban ivory trading. Learn more: 96 Elephants: A Killing at the Bai

Here are some photos of faces from the 2013 Run for the Wild.