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Amplifying voices: The SEAD Project uses storytelling to capture history

Diversity, Education, Healing, Healing Treasures, HSA, Storytelling It's News! / February 26, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

MINNPost February 21, 2019 In Southeast Asian Americans’ schools, the stories they heard from their parents and grandparents growing up were almost never noted in their history textbooks. The experiences of Southeast Asian communities are often forgotten, particularly the history of the Vietnam War. “It seemed like, growing up, all of these stories that I heard […]

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StoryCorps And TPR Invite You To Take ‘One Small Step’

Diversity, Education, Healing, Healing Treasures, HSA, Internet, Radio, Movies, Storytelling It's News! / February 26, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Texas Public Radio February 25, 2019 TPR is joining with StoryCorps to bring together folks on opposite sides of the political aisle to have a conversation to learn more about each other, and our hopes for the future. StoryCorps founder Dave Isay says, “Our dream, which is lofty, is to try and convince the country that

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The Story of Storytelling

Education, Explanation of Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / February 26, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Harper’s Magazine February 25, 2019 Anthropologist Jamie Tehrani wondered whether he could sort out the genealogy of all the “Little Red Riding Hood” variants—Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 333—with something similar to modern phylogenetics, the DNA-informed statistical method biologists use to construct evolutionary trees of living things. Replacing genes with essential narrative elements, such as type of protagonist

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Student storytellers take the stage

Education, Storytelling It's News!, Training & Mentoring / February 23, 2019 / By Danni

The News Courier October 27, 2018 Hands sweaty, shifting back and forth between nervous feet, Jessa Usery, a sixth-grader at Elkmont High School, looked out from the stage at the Athens Storytelling Festival into a sea of young faces. She drew a deep breath, leaned into the microphone and began to spin a tale that

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The Value of Breathing: How little we do and how important it is

Articles, Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, NSN News, Storytelling It's News! / February 15, 2019 / By Danni

By Kevin Cordi The Value of Breathing: How little we do and how important it is After returning from Japan in 2001 I examined life through a calmer window. It was there people were rushing to meet taxis, running to their jobs, and hurrying to meet life’s demands. However, although they were rushing, there was

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Why The Art of Speaking Should Be Taught Alongside Math and Literacy

Education, Storytelling It's News!, Training & Mentoring / February 2, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

KQED News October 3, 2016 School 21, a public school in London has made “oracy” a primary focus of everything they do. From the earliest grades on up teachers support students to find their voice, express differing opinions politely, and challenge one another’s thinking. These are skills called for in the Common Core. Another key element of

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Ditch the grammar and teach children storytelling instead

Diversity, Education, Healing, Personal Stories, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling Events, Storytelling It's News! / January 31, 2019 / By Danni

The Guardian, New York, NY May 19, 2017 By Tim Lott Writing stories is a craft that is crucial for life. And if the government insists, you can test it, measure it and use it in commerce, too A report in the Times has quoted a secondary school teacher who complained that their year

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What does membership provide?

Applied Storytelling, Articles, Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, Become A Storyteller, Business, Digital Storytelling, Diversity, Education, Healing, Medical, Member, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, NSN News, Personal Storytelling, Stories, Storytelling It's News! / January 25, 2019 / By Danni

By Patricia Coffie What does membership provide? Payback on what you invest. When members cease to invest time and talent as well as money, organizations die. I am currently a member of a family group, two historical societies, a storytellers’ guild, a regional storytelling organization (five states and the others too), a national storytelling organization,

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When we consider story making, storytelling expands

Articles, Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, NSN News, Storytelling It's News! / January 18, 2019 / By Danni

By Kevin Cordi When we consider story making, storytelling expands. As Storytellers, we need to explore Story Making as much as Storytelling. Too often we privilege the telling as the most important value. We spend time working on our performances when we need to look more at how we make the stories we make ready for performance. We

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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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