Wed, 24 December 2008
Connie Regen-Blake is one of the longest supporters and storytellers at the National Storytelling Festival. She speaks about her life and storytelling career.
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Wed, 10 December 2008
Interview #071 Andy Offutt Irwin - Entertaining children with out boring the grownups out of their skull.
Andy Offutt Irwin speaks about how to be a storyteller who successfully works with mixed age audiences as a storyteller or musician.
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Wed, 26 November 2008
Elizabeth Ellis says that the most basic things about being human come from the right side of the brain, not the left. Chief among them is the ability to make ethical decisions. Ethical decision-making requires the ability to imagine the effect of my behavior on your life.
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Wed, 19 November 2008
Charlotte Blake Alston shares some of her experience of growing up African American in the United Sates and how storytelling can be a useful skill in helping communities to confront racism in their lives.
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Wed, 12 November 2008
Dylan Pritchett is a native of Williamsburg, Virginia. Since 1990, Mr. Pritchett has been a full-time storyteller, taking his African and African-American folk tales averaging over a hundred schools annually throughout the country.
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Wed, 5 November 2008
Interview on the Art of Storytelling with Children about good poetry and good storytelling go together like hand in glove recorded on November 15th 2008 with storyteller Mitch Capel - Grandaddy Junebug.
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Wed, 29 October 2008
Interview on the Art of Storytelling with Children about literacy and storytelling in the 21st Century that was recorded as a conference call on October 15th, 2008 with Michael D. McCarty
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Wed, 22 October 2008
Lopaka Kapanui is the official ghost storyteller of the Talk Story Storytelling festival in Hawaii.
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Wed, 15 October 2008
Dale Gilbert Jarvis speaks about running a haunted tour and how to find ghost stories in your community.
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Wed, 8 October 2008
Donna Washington professional storyteller and featured ghost story teller at the 2008 National Storytelling Festival. speaks about the Anatomy of a Ghost Story.
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Wed, 1 October 2008
Thomas Freeze writes... I have over a dozen storytelling programs that I perform for schools, libraries, festivals, churches and private parties. And several of those themed programs are ghost stories. I’ve collected both true ghost stories as well as authoring original fiction mysteries.
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Wed, 24 September 2008
A very lively discussion on storytelling in the 20th century - How to use podcasting, blogging, website assistance, mp3 sales and email to support your storytelling practice.
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Wed, 17 September 2008
Jack Zipes writes... At their best, the storytelling of fairy tales constitute the most profound articulation of the human struggle to form and maintain a civilizing process.
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Wed, 10 September 2008
Jim May Writes - I tell stories to children because I learned many years ago that nothing in my ten years of experience as a classroom teacher held my elementary students' attention like a story.
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Wed, 3 September 2008
Language is critical for literacy development and storytelling creates an interactive bridge. Music, repeated phrases, and actions provide connections and invite participation by children when they become part of the storytelling event.
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Wed, 27 August 2008
This interview that was recorded as a conference call on June 3rd 2008 with storyteller Dovie Thomason on building Young Adult Audiences. How do we as artists connect with younger audiences?
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Wed, 21 May 2008
How did it all begin? With one sentence. In 2002 I had been storytelling for only a few years when I approached one of the teachers and boldly stated, I would love to start a student storytelling club.
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Wed, 7 May 2008
What makes storytelling funny? How do we use comedy to serve our audiences? What are the ground rules of comedy with storytelling and how do we use them as performers? All of these topics our touched upon by Buck P Creacy.
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Wed, 30 April 2008
This is a traditional way of performing storytelling back when storytellers worked in the marketplace in the street or would travel from home to home singing for their supper. Largely I do this in the context of a Renaissance or fantasy festival but I have done storytelling in the modern street.
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Wed, 23 April 2008
When Sally Crandall takes on the creation of an historical story, She looks at it as an opportunity to go back in time and explore places and people. How you can use storytelling in school to teach history and develop a better understanding of history.
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Wed, 16 April 2008
Folk-tales bring us the wisdom of the ages. They have been honed and shaped over centuries. They are there for everyone, functioning on the one hand as entertainment and on the other through offering so many layers of meaning that they are accessible to all.
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Wed, 9 April 2008
A BLUEPRINT: I offer a blueprint based on my evolution here in Hawaii mapping a progression from a teller to a story producer of a Festival, a radio, and TV series. I believe it is vital for us to moving storytelling into the blood stream of the mainstream.
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Wed, 2 April 2008
Storytellers are at heart bringers of culture, bringers of ideas and agents of change. How do we as storyteller and storylovers support hte use oof storyteling for the future generations to come? How can we support peace and social jusitce through storytelling?
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Wed, 26 March 2008
Interview #049 Jackie Baldwin - Kate Dudding, Storytelling in Schools a reference guide to educational programs.
As pressures build in schools for national testing, reporting and accountability, many people feel storytelling can be eliminated in schools. However, we knew that there were many quantitative studies documenting the methods and effectiveness of using stories and storytelling techniques in traditional classrooms to help teach the standard curriculum. We created our website to help spread the word.
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Wed, 19 March 2008
In this episode Eric wolf speaks with Mark Morey about how the Art of Mentoring can be used with storytelling to reach out to adolescent age children. We explore the role that mentoring is meant to play in pre or post industrial society.
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Tue, 18 March 2008
Promo the Art of storytelling with Children
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Wed, 12 March 2008
David Epley speaks about comedy and storytelling. Comedy is one of the most effective tools for imparting any information: Comedy actively involves the audience; laughter is not passive. Comedy encourages the audience to focus on the process. Comedy makes the process fun.
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Wed, 5 March 2008
Diane Williams talks about creating a storytelling classroom and literacy development in the storytelling classroom. Teachers, parents, storytellers and students can effectively get involved in a systemic, sustainable, and holistic approach to learning across the curriculum by incorporating story and storytelling elements.
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Wed, 27 February 2008
Syd Lieberman speaks at length about how he developes his family's stories. We also speak about giving your stories away through podcasting the benefits and rewards.
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Wed, 20 February 2008
Baba the storyteller and I speak about the podcasting revolution and the storytelling movement. Will we ever stop talking off topic of podcasting during this episode? All this on two tellers talking – the podcasting special.
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Wed, 13 February 2008
As storytellers and teaching artists, we have the pivotal opportunity to create change and inspire parents and educators to include storytelling in the home and the classroom.
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Wed, 6 February 2008
Storypartners for Teenage Parents is designed to promote communication between teenage parents and parents of another generation. Like it or not parents have similar experiences no matter when they became a parent. This program gives all participants a chance to tell his/her own story to someone who is there to listen to them.
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Wed, 30 January 2008
When telling for young audiences, even the most brilliant story is vulnerable to young audiences if the situation is compromised, or your delivery is not ideal for the setting. In this discussion, Alex reveals how his wild and mesmerizing style is methodically built, brick by brick.
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Wed, 23 January 2008
In our interview, we talk about: some of the ways Priscilla Howe found to make a real living, how to thrive as a storyteller instead of just survive, marketing (word of mouth, websites, blogs, direct mail) how to sustain the traveling life, and to remember that we’re doing this because it’s so incredibly fun.
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Wed, 16 January 2008
Interview #039 Steve Denning, The knowledge-based organization: Using stories to embody and transfer knowledge
Steve Denning you used storytelling to reform the world bank. Good business cases are developed through the use of numbers, but they are typically approved on the basis of stories. A story can translate dry, abstract numbers into compelling pictures of how the deep yearnings of decision influencers can come true.
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Wed, 2 January 2008
An internationally known story performer and teaching artist, this three-time Emmy Award winner and Parents Choice honoree is one of the most popular and dynamic story-educators in the country today!
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