Wed, 26 December 2007
I always start my storytelling performances by focusing on the circles and cycles that we share. Storytelling is a circle: a story needs someone to speak the words and a listener to imagine the story into being.
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Wed, 19 December 2007
Margaret began telling stories as a children’s librarian in 1965. She retired from the King County Library System in 2002 and has been traveling incessantly ever since. She delights in discovering tales most tellers have not heard yet and putting those into books for others to share.
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Wed, 12 December 2007
I spent an hour talking with my local yellow springs Tale-spinners about how we function as a closed storytelling group. We are fairly successful at supporting each other and building on our past successes. I think you will enjoy the conversation.
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Wed, 5 December 2007
In this podcast, Elizabeth shares her ideas on how to use storytelling in the classroom in a realistic way in order to help teach the mandated state curriculum.
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Wed, 28 November 2007
SWC Info Commercial #001 Tracking the College Big Cat's with Rachel Hedman and the new theme song for the Podcast.
Brother Wolf Speaks with Rachel Hedman about there conference call course and free e-course called Tracking the College Big Cat's.
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Wed, 21 November 2007
Tim Sheppard talks about how various traditions hold the responsibility of an audience differently. What is the moment of impact that storytellers can create and hold for there audiences?
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Wed, 14 November 2007
Heather Forest with sharing musical folk-tales with young listeners. Music and children are an exuberant match. Heather has found in her storytelling experience with young people that melody, rhythm, rhyme, and repetition of musical refrains keeps young listeners listening.
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Wed, 7 November 2007
Mark Wagler built up a theory of narrative pedagogy, and a set of teaching practices that helped students experience their lives and the world around them as a story. In this podcast we talk about reshaping classrooms with narrative pedagogy or storytelling in teaching a practice to build an effective learning community.
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Wed, 31 October 2007
Some might find it difficult to understand the benefit of storytelling to adolescent boys if the unique nature and difference of the teller’s art is not understood. Storytelling to this population requires some specific techniques.
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Wed, 24 October 2007
Fran's main concern with this topic is the observation that many of our Environmental tales are downers. While our storytelling ancestors probably used them as cautionary tales, and they’re still valuable for that, she worries about the risk of discouraging young story listeners into paralysis–when what we want is to mobilize them.
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Wed, 17 October 2007
Storyteller Brother Blue appeared on the Art of Storytelling with Children to talk about street storytelling and storytelling from the heart. I am very proud to bring you this conversation about street storytelling and everything else related to storytelling with storyteller Brother Blue.
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Wed, 10 October 2007
Karen Czarnik is an amazing singer and storyteller in her own right. I saw her present a workshop on this topic at the Ohio Storytelling conference and was so impressed with her I had to being her on the Art of Storytelling with Children so that she could free up all of our voices for singing…
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Wed, 3 October 2007
Storyteller Rachel Hedman writes... How do we as adults support the child tellers in our lives? What is the ways we can build relationships with child tellers? How are we as storytellers responsible for the respect and care that must be built between adults and child tellers.
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Wed, 26 September 2007
Interview #025 Onawumi Jean Moss - Using culturally driven objects to create entertaining storytelling festivals..
How can we give birth to meaningful festivals that encourage the use of storytelling in building cultural bridges? What audiences can we serve or bring together using multicultural formats?
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Wed, 19 September 2007
Interview #024 Larry Johnson, Key of See Storytellers, How storytelling in your school and classroom creates successful leaders.
Larry Johnson writes... What if there was a storyteller in every school? What if children learned to move confidently in the world with fear of being speaking in public?
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Wed, 12 September 2007
Interview #023 Mary Margaret O'Connor, Owner of Itales.com. Digital Storytelling using emerging technologies with your storytelling.
iTales.com started as a simple enough idea create a website to house bedtime stories I tell to my children. But what started as a simple project based on a love of storytelling, evolved into a much better and more complex idea, still based on a love of storytelling! That idea became iTales, a website that allows storytellers to upload and sell individual stories.
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Wed, 5 September 2007
Librarian Julie Mills talks about Building a successful storytelling festival at your library and how to be a successful candidate for the festival as a storyteller.
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Wed, 29 August 2007
Carolyn Franzini is the Director of the Cave Run Storytelling Festival of the most successful and prestigious storytelling festivals outside of Jonesborough in the United States in this interview she discusses how to run a storytelling festival successfully and How Storytellers Become Candidates for Telling at the Festival.
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Wed, 22 August 2007
Steve Otto describes how the "Chicken festival" started a traveling storytelling festival designed to help spread the art of storytelling. Traveling to different areas of the state every two years.
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Wed, 15 August 2007
Cover the following topics on this show; building a festival, grants, sponsorships, marketing, strategic planning for an organization, positioning the organization for continual growth. The need for clarity in your organizational plan and structure. Planning for the future...
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Wed, 8 August 2007
In this interview with the Reverend Victoria Burdick, M. Div Hospice Chaplain ~ Celebrant we discuss how storytelling can be used in wedding ceremonies to create the ceremony. We also discuss how storytelling is used in hospice work.
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Wed, 1 August 2007
Interview #017 Eth-noh-tec - Your Highest Vision and The Nitty Gritty of Your Storytelling Practice.
What does Vision and Purpose have to do with being a storyteller? How does one find a vision and why is it important? What would a storytelling career look like if the artist in in alignment with ones purpose?
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Wed, 25 July 2007
In this interview with Ellen Munds we cover how to create your mission statement or why you want to do a festival, Determine your target audience, Details such as indoor or outdoor, specific site for an event, accessibility, design and traffic flow of the site, Artistic Elements, Marketing and Public Relations, Funding, Budget, Volunteers, Care and Feeding of the storytellers, sponsors and volunteers, Evaluation of your Festival.
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Wed, 18 July 2007
In taking our storytelling practice to the next level we as storytellers can look at how we limit our selves and our opportunities. Storytelling is an incredibly versatile field with a wide varieties and of approaches and techniques.
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Wed, 11 July 2007
We wonder through text and storytelling talking about Copyright issues with Carol Birch. She says.. More opportunities equal more responsibilities is a simple explanation of copyright.
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Wed, 4 July 2007
Cynthia Changaris says - When performing as a storyteller there are many ways to use songs. I use songs that stand alone, songs that relate to the subject of the stories, songs that connect a group of stories together, songs that teach wonder and reverence for the humanity and the world, songs that are sung by the character in the story, songs that are repetitive and provide an interlude or a point of movement of the story, songs to frame the story, and songs that are stories.
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Wed, 27 June 2007
The scary story is one of the most popular genres. Children begin liking scary stories from about the age of 8 or 10, although the exact age varies with each individual child. Some children never like them. Scary stories seem to hold a fascination for adults as well as children.
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Wed, 20 June 2007
Creating the Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival in Chillicothe has been an interesting journey. Bill Mckell talks about creating the Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival in Chillicothe.
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Wed, 13 June 2007
Kevin Cordi is the co-author, with Judy Sima, of Raising Voices: Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes and according to the National Storytelling Network, “the first full time high school storytelling teacher in the country.” and is the founder of both Voices across America Youth Storytelling Project and the Special Interest Group now called Y.E.S. (Youth, Educators, and Storytellers.)
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Wed, 6 June 2007
Stories are a natural for camps. Camps offers an opportunity to create a meaningful and memorable connection to the outdoor environment. Educational research suggests that this connection to the outdoors creates a highly charged environment that facilitates learning.
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Wed, 30 May 2007
Improvisational storytelling is a teaching tool that is a cross between storytelling that I have been doing for years and improv techniques I learned in my college days. A conversation-with Stephen Hollen about using improvisational storytelling with children.
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Wed, 23 May 2007
Jim Flanagan says that to tell a story, you must write it down. Before you tell it, you must have a point of reference, an outline, and then scratching a script. This is the beginning of using writing and storytelling with children in schools to teach the art of creating stories.
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Wed, 16 May 2007
Judith Black says that adults edit and censor the stories they share with children. Making them solely out of our wants and objectives instead of based in our children’s needs, might result in robbing them of the greatest tool of transformation we have.
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Wed, 9 May 2007
The Truth About Marketing. Most of the mass marketing we see around us is probably not good marketing - and it’s certainly nothing like what would make sense for a storyteller.
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Wed, 2 May 2007
Lyn Ford says that breaking into storytelling isn’t quite the description that fits the beginnings of her career. It was more like leaping off the edge of a cliff, with all the materials to build a strong glider that would carry her wherever she should go, but no blueprint or directions on how to build the thing.
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Wed, 25 April 2007
What we need to investigate and learn together is healing. In a time of great sickness nothing else should concern us. Healing the earth, healing society, healing our communities, healing ourselves.
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Wed, 18 April 2007
Probably we are all aware of the cultural confusions and misconceptions that become evident daily in this world of instant updates. These errors in sensitivity can hurt feelings, and cause outright insults and rage in the offended.
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Wed, 11 April 2007
Wow Weekends provide an opportunity for storytellers of all experience levels to gather as peers and grow in the art of telling stories. Using an artist-centered process, each participant will be able to use the collective wisdom of the group in service to the storyteller’s work.
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