October 3, 2019 - National Storytelling Network

2nd Bering Sea Women’s Conference To Focus On Storytelling, Supportive Communities

Pro-Sig / October 3, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

KUCB Your voice in the Aleutians September 9, 2019 This Saturday, Unalaska is hosting the second annual Bering Sea Women’s Conference. Organizer Beatriz Dietrick said, “Storytelling is a very powerful tool and it can promote empathy, connectedness, and be very helpful for building strength in a community. And the idea was to focus more on involving […]

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New Venture Seeks to Leverage the Power of Recovery Stories

Healing, Medical, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News!, Video, Audio, and Image / October 3, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Addiction Professional September 9, 2019 Matt Conway and T.J. Murphy started RecoverYdia (a hybrid of “recovery” and “media”) as “our response to a suffering world.” They want to counteract the loneliness that has enveloped a technology-connected world by using that world to share moments of personal triumph. Murphy says he and Conway have set out to

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Moved by immigration crisis, mime opens up about his journey to Maine

Diversity, Education, Healing, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / October 3, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Portland Press Herald, Maine September 8, 2019 As an immigrant from Brazil and a US citizen for 18 years, storyteller and mime Antonia Rocha hopes to show people there’s nothing to fear. Rocha treats his stories as bridges of understanding, and tells school kids he works with, “When you encounter something different – an

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