told by Noa Baum Click to listen Noa Baum “So… how did you two meet?” For years I’d been telling the story around the dinner table about my American blind date. But it took me 20 years to craft it for telling before an audience. Just because something happened doesn’t make it into a story […]
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by Pat Nease I spent a year in Vietnam (Aug. ’66-Aug.’67) working with the Red Cross SRAO Program. Our job with the military was to build morale and be a touch of home, but as you can imagine we needed to interact with the troops in some sort of structured environment. So we created portable
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by Simon Brooks and Karen Chace “A brand name is more than a word. It is the beginning of a conversation.” ~ Lexicon For some, the concept of branding is synonymous with marketing. Yet, what many fail to realize is that branding comes before marketing. Branding is a separate piece and it should be the
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by Elaine Muray At the end of July, I will have the honor of providing a workshop at the 2014 NSN Conference entitled: The Prism of Performance: Bringing Light and Color to the Stage. This workshop, designed for all levels of tellers, will help them to learn some staging techniques, tricks, and exercises used by
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by Terry Foxx My 9 year old granddaughter is traveling the world with her parents for two years. The other day on Skype she asked me the question “How did you become a storyteller.” So I wrote her this blog letter: To my precious granddaughter, Sydney: You asked me a question: How did you become
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Scientists Study Why Stories Exist Wall Street Journal (New York, NY), April 4, 2014 Summary: We human beings spend hours each day telling and hearing stories. We always have. Why? At a fascinating workshop at Stanford last month called “The Science of Stories” scientists and scholars talked about why reading Harlequin romances may make you
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by Adah Hetko, guest editor for New Voices (Katie Knutson) The “Bayit,” the home of Jewish Life at Vassar College, sits right outside Vassar’s gate. On an evening in November, we set the Bayit’s parlor with a circle of chairs ready to welcome students, administrators, members of the surrounding community… and their stories. The event
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Told by Ken Galipeau Click to listen galipeau About the Story This story comes from the most important and joyous time of my life. Though I grow up in New Jersey, having a summer place in Rhode Island next to my relatives, including Uncle Ish, was one of the best things my parents did for
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told by Joanna Demarest Click to listen demarest About the Story Love of family, country, and the men who fight to preserve our freedom are the central themes of Unexpected Guests, a true-life tale of a 16 year old girl and her encounter with 8 Marines on a Florida beach. This humorous tale tells how,
told by Sheila Arnold Click to listen arnold About the Story “Simon and Susannah” was my signature story when I was a Storyteller at Colonial Williamsburg (VA). When I first read the story, there was no “attachment” to Virginia, so I added the part about the Blue Ridge Mountains. When I started telling full time,
