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Art and storytelling event gives voice to local homeless community

Diversity, Education, Healing, Personal Stories, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling Events, Storytelling It's News! / January 13, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

The Michigan Daily, Ann Arbor, MI November 11, 2018 The Washtenaw Housing Alliance and Shelter Association of Washtenaw County hosted the second-ever Voices of Homelessness event Friday evening in Ypsilanti, inviting community members to share their experiences with homelessness through art and storytelling. The speak-out was intended to spread awareness about homelessness and connect displaced people to […]

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Job skills gain as Bridgeport tells its stories

Diversity, Education, Healing, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / January 13, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Stamford Advocate, Stamford, CT November 13, 2018 Podcaster Dayna Lindo wants to change the narrative of her community, Bridgeport, CT. “The podcast is dedicated to telling the untold stories of Bridgeport and humanizing our collective experience,” Lindo said. “My goal is to increase Bridgeport citizens’ pride in themselves and our city by changing

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FT. BRAGG STORIES: ‘Time To Bow Out’

Healing, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / January 13, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

WUNC 91.5 December 28, 2018 The Ft. Bragg Stories series is a collaboration between the Fayetteville Observer and WUNC’s American Homefront Project to commemorate a century of history at Fort Bragg through personal narratives. You can hear all stories (around 30) in the series here. This article highlights the story of Jay Huwieler, a

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Stories meant to be told

Healing, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling Events, Storytelling It's News! / January 13, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Deccan Chronicle, Secunderabad, India December 25, 2018 Stories Worth Sharing is an initiative which strives to revive the art of storytelling. Himanshu Poswal and Mohit Munjal, two engineering graduates from Delhi, are the founders. When travelling, they witnessed a group of people who put the phones away and were sharing stories. They realized they should

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Effects of storytelling on the childhood brain

Education, Explanation of Storytelling, Medical, Storytelling It's News! / January 13, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

FUKUSHIMA JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE 2018 Volume 64 Issue 3 Pages 125-132 Effects of storytelling on the childhood brain: near-infrared spectroscopic comparison with the effects of picture-book reading Miyuki Yabe, Sachie Oshima, Satoshi Eifuku, Masato Taira, Kazuto Kobayashi, Hirooki Yabe, Sin-ichi Niwa In children, storytelling provides many psychological and educational benefits, such as enhanced imagination to help visualize spoken words,

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How Sharing Stories Of Hope Impacts Addiction Recovery

Healing, Medical, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / January 13, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Side Effect: Public Health Personal Stories January 9, 2019 Addiction affects millions of Americans. At a live storytelling event held Aug. 14, 2018, Indiana community members who struggle with addiction shared their stories of life in recovery. Stories shared included: a “moment of clarity” that lead to their sobriety a non-typical story of someone

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The fire of story can be and should be everywhere

Articles, Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, NSN News, Storytelling It's News! / January 4, 2019 / By Danni

By Kevin Cordi The fire of story can be and should be everywhere As a storyteller for over 25 years, I hear that storytelling is changing. I agree, it is changing, but with this change, it is implied or even directly said that sitting at a warm campfire is no longer the place that story

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Rediscovering truth – African storytellers tap into rich tradition

Education, Healing, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling Festival Articles, Storytelling It's News! / December 27, 2018 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

euroNEWS Reuters (Nairobi, Kenya) December 17, 2018 “To have that storyteller in front of you with an audience being able to interact is something very precious that we are in danger of losing,” said Maimouna Jallow, who organised the one-day Re-Imagined Storytelling Festival in Kenya’s capital. Although written history has existed for centuries in

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Environmental storytelling can help spread big ideas for saving the planet

Education, Environmental, HSA, Storytelling It's News! / December 27, 2018 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

The Conversation (Boston, MA) December 21, 2018 Research has shown that using fear to promote behavioral change can be counterproductive. However, stories with positive role models, focusing on the positive outcomes of solutions, are much more likely to inspire action to solve problems. While this article refers to fictional stories, the same ideas can be using in

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Storytelling troupe revives Kurdish culture

Storytelling Festival Articles, Storytelling It's News! / December 27, 2018 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Ahval (Turkey) December 16, 2018 A generation ago, when electricity came to Kurdish villages in Turkey, storytelling by local bards gradually ended. However, two and a half years ago, in Diyarbakır, the Amîdart Kültür Sanat Bileşkesi (Amîdart Intersection of Culture and Art) was founded. Amîdart’s slogan is “no place but everywhere.” They tell stories as well

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