Wonder

Fueled

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STORYTELLING

to spark bright ideas 
& vibrant community

Your

favorite

facilitator

of

imagination

✶

Your favorite facilitator of imagination ✶

We are meant to be more than dusty brains and heavy hearts.

That’s why I’m on a storytelling mission

to create high-energy folktale performances, workshops & media that inspire you to grow a community buzzing with imagination, engaged learning, and social emotional skills growth.

Work With Me
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Featured  Storytelling  Services

SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES & CLASS VISITS

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It’s time to celebrate! Turn your students into highly engaged learners who listen deeply, retain information, love literacy, and think outside the box.

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Rev up your audiences’ imagination with performances that captivate and build authentic community, putting your mission & themes front & center.

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Inspire educators to infuse their lessons and classrooms with storytelling that drives student growth.

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* Dynamic team building for companies & non-profits

* Performances for corporate family day events

* Professional Learning for museum & library educators

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Explore The Podcast

designed to shake up a world of creative juices!

The Fairy Tale Art Cart is an interactive draw-along storytelling podcast where your kids get to become the illustrators of the stories they listen to!

Screen-free creative time for your kids, made easy!

The Fairy Tale Art Cart Podcast keeps your kids independently entertained with imaginative storytelling, drawing prompts, and music filled illustration breaks. All you need is paper, crayons, and 20-30 minutes to create a calm, screen-free fun environment.

Each episode blends a folktale with creative drawing prompts breaks so that kids become the illustrators of the part of the story they just listened to.

Venture To The Podcast Page
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Listen on:

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with your host Rachael Harrington

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UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

september

2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Story Box school residency

17

UFT Sustainability Day Table

19, 3pm

The Fairy Tale Art Cart LIVE with Latin Grammy nominee Flor Bromley

22, 4pm

New Amsterdam NYPL Branch

27, 5pm

Halloween Stories with White Plains Parks & Rec

31, 9:30am

Sugar Hill Preschool Assembly

31, 4pm

Monster March Parade NYC, pre-parade story hour

13th, 4pm

Story & Music with Leadlights Ensemble at Morris Jumel Mansion, NYC

13TH, 7pm
White Plains Camp Out
Storytelling around the campfire at the Family Campout!

14th, 2pm

Y Washington Heights Community Day Fairy Tail Art Cart Live with Leadlights Ensemble

28th, 3-4pm

The Together Time Series presents: Fairy Tale Art Cart LIVE featuring Andy Seagrave at Buunni Coffee Inwood

october

november

6, 13, 20

Story Box School Residency

1, 11am

Sugar Hill Childrens Museum Saturday Stories

13, 6pm

Scarsdale Schools Family Night & Book Fair Pajama Party

Date TBD

Allerton Branch NYPL Winter Lights Performance

16, 3pm

The Fairy Tale Art Cart LIVE feturing John Polimeni

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In The

Media

Coming Soon:

Guest appearance on “Classroom Narratives: Healing In Education”.

Feb. 2026

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Bringing folk & fairy tales to life so that you can create a community buzzing with imagination and social emotional growth. Using the power of storytelling to increase engagement, literacy, vocabulary retention, and creative problem solving in students of all ages.

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