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A Handful of Beans or One Gold Coin: How to Price Your Work

By Katie Knutson Although it is impossible to put a numerical value on the art or experience of storytelling, if you are going to work as a storyteller, you have to charge for your performances. Even many experienced storytellers wrestle with the appropriate fees for their art. For a new teller, this can be a

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How To Make Everything in Your Community Better By Yourself

by Megan Finnerty That’s a big promise. But that’s what my how-to workshop at the 2014 National Storytelling Conference promises: a way for you to make your community more awesome with little to no money and just the help of a few friends. Across the country, live storytelling nights are proliferating in restaurants, bars and

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Feeding the Spirit with Sacred Stories and…Jack Tales?!

by Pam Faro You probably had to be there… Raising a quizzical eyebrow, she speaks with feigned ignorance and asks the oh-so-pregnant-with-meaning question: “Now, Pam…What are you a Master of?” I take my cue…spread open my hands, raise eyes upward, and with a voice exuding a beatific awareness of the numinous, I answer in a

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Storytelling: The Fire in Great Teaching

By Regina Ress I learned how to tell stories while substitute teaching in the New York City public schools. Talk about boot camp! I was often working with “at risk” children, many of whom were…shall we say…deeply disengaged from the classroom activities. When I began to bring in stories… not read them, but tell them…my

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