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Culturally Appropriate Storytelling to Improve Blood Pressure – A Randomized Trial

HSA, Research / March 10, 2012 / By Healing Stories SIG

by Mary K. Clark Can story be used to improve blood pressure? African-Americans with uncontrolled high blood pressure benefited from an intervention using DVDs of real patients’ stories of how they dealt with their chronic disease. Read the rest of the article at: http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=71702. This article is shared by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To […]

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Festival Revives Traditional Art of Storytelling

The Gulf Today (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), March 18, 2012 Summary: Committed to sharing the delight of traditional Arabic art forms with new generations of children and young people, the Abu Dhabi Festival’s Community Programme is hosting a range of workshops and performances focused on storytelling. Reviving the art of storytelling, as well as traditional

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Sweeping Ashes for the Witch

Articles, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog / March 6, 2012 / By Danni

by Regina Ress Living from within myth and fairytale, looking with a metaphoric eye, life’s lessons are deeply experienced and learned. Recently I spent two months volunteering for Fundacion Arte del Mundo, an arts and literacy center in the Andean town of Baños, Ecuador. Besides the in-town waterfall and hot springs for which the town

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Uncle Cleo and the Word the Devil Made Up

National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, Stories / February 28, 2012 / By Danni

by Kirk Waller Listen to story Uncle Cleo means a lot to me for many reasons. Each time I tell and hear the story, it reminds me of all of the people in my life that have introduced me to and influenced my storytelling. It intimates at the magic of those older storytellers weaving stories

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Domestic Violence Week Uses Storytelling to Inspire Healing

Healing, Storytelling It's News! / February 22, 2012 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

The Spectator (Seattle University, Seattle, WA), February 22, 2012 Summary: Last week was the second annual Domestic Violence Awareness Week at Seattle University. In spreading awareness on survival and healing, several speakers, including the Thrivers Action Group, or TAG, came to share their stories and spread social awareness. According to TAG member Trese Todd, domestic

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Identity Theft: the Leprechaun

Articles, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog / February 21, 2012 / By Danni

By Yvonne Healy What is more Irish than storytelling? American audiences often request stories about one particular Irish character. They visualize a little man dressed in spring’s color with a matching green top hat, jacket and shoes with big buckles and a matching scarf. He beguiles with his sprightly laugh and dancing step. You want

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Rindercella

National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, Stories / February 14, 2012 / By Danni

By Mary Hamilton Listen to story I’m far from the first to tell “Rindercella” a Spoonerized “Cinderella.” For years it held no appeal whatsoever. To me, “Rindercella” seemed like a memorized fixed text being recited rather than told. Me, memorize text? No way! Then, I needed a version. I put together Around the World with

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USA Network Catches ’em Young: Characters Unite Program Tours Los Angeles, Teaches Diversity

Diversity, Storytelling It's News! / February 13, 2012 / By Dorothy Cleveland

Variety (Los Angeles, CA) , February 13, 2012 Summary: USA Network has gone well beyond public service announcements with its Characters Unite initiative, which aims to promote tolerance and acceptance of people from diverse backgrounds. This year’s campaign has incorporated a national storytelling tour featuring notable figures, including some USA stars, sharing stories of their

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Storytelling: Community through… Competition?

Articles, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog / February 7, 2012 / By Danni

by Katie Knutson Chances are that your path to storytelling and mine are quite different. Maybe you were a part of the storytelling revival of the 1970’s; maybe you discovered storytelling within another career path; or, maybe you started as a story listener. I am guessing that few of you had your first introduction to

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Story Collider: Where Science is a Story Well Told

Education, Storytelling It's News! / January 31, 2012 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

New York Times (New York, NY), January 31, 2012 Summary: By ANDREW C. REVKIN I’ve often argued that the world would be better off if people, from an early age, absorbed science not as a set of facts (sadly the state of science education today), but as a story — full of vexing questions,

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