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N.C. Black Storytellers enchant the audience at the National Black Theatre Festival

Diversity, Education, Healing, Storytelling Festival Articles, Storytelling It's News! / September 7, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

The Chronicle August 9, 2019 Recently the N.C. Association of Black Storytellers event at the National Black Theatre Festival delighted their audience, from the young children to the older adults. The North Carolina Association of Black Storytellers, Inc., (NCABS) a part of the National Black Storytellers Association, has the goal of keeping alive the […]

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Jane Goodall: If you want leaders to truly listen, use the power of storytelling

Business, Explanation of Storytelling, Social Justice, Stories, Storytelling It's News! / August 25, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

CNBC January 29, 2019 World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall said: “So often, I see activists and they come face-to-face with a CEO or somebody — and they immediately become very aggressive (with phrases like): ‘Do you realize what you’re doing to the planet?’ (or) ‘Do you realize what you’re doing to my future?’” “So,

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Storyteller Helps People Reconnect With Nature

Education, Environmental, HSA, Storytelling It's News! / August 1, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Jamaica Plain Gazette July 12, 2019 Some of storyteller Diane Edgecomb’s most popular events are her Summer solstice events with Margot Chamberlain, a Celtic harpist, at Arnold Arboretum. These events are limited to around 30 people maximum, she said. However, at this past weekend’s event, the 18th, she said they were sold out “well in

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Teens Using the Gift of Gab for Action

Diversity, Education, Healing, Medical, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Hemophilia New Today June 21, 2019 A group of teens from a local bleeding disorders organization, HACA, (Hemophilia Association of the Capital Area, greater Washington, D.C.) , have stories to share as advocates for themselves or their siblings who have hemophilia. They worked with the StoryCorps app to bring their stories to life. StoryCorps gave them a

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Blackfoot Oral Stories Database brought to life by ii’ taa’poh’to’p grant

Digital Storytelling, Diversity, Education, Story Collections and Sources, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

UToday, University of Calgary June 24, 2019 In the Blackfoot tradition, stories are shared as a way to document history and to teach important life lessons. Siksika Elder and Horn Society member Natóóhkitopi Fred Breaker tells us, “Our culture is centred around an oral tradition, and our people learn orally, through storytelling. The stories were

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Classcraft Launches Storytelling Series for Student Engagement

Digital Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

The Journal June 24, 2019 At International Society for Technology in Education ISTE 2019 this week in Philadelphia, ed tech company Classcraft is launching a new “Story Mode” series, which uses storytelling to help teachers engage and motivate students. The series of ready-made stories begins with Classcraft: Season 1, a year-long adventure story that explores themes of self-discovery

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Storytelling in data science

Business, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

BusinessWorld July 3, 2019 With the unprecedented increase in the amount of data that businesses create, the potential value from data also increases. However, we can only realize the value of data when the insights we derive move people into action. The question is: How exactly can we do that? To move people into action,

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How blowing into a straw can save your voice

Healing, Medical, Storytelling It's News!, Training & Mentoring / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Vox June 20, 2015 Diana Orbelo, a speech-language pathologist at the Mayo Clinic who helps people with voice problems, offers much advice for those with problem voices and for those who are over-using their voices. Other experts offer videos which demonstrate exercises all storytellers can benefit from — exercises which “rebalance and recoordinate the vocal mechanism”

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The Power of Sharing Stories

Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Uplift March 21st, 2019 This article sites many ways in which storytelling can improve your mental health: Storytelling and our sense of self Telling happy stories improves your well being Creating stories and then acting them out helps children understand themselves storytelling is at the heart of health care examples of the healing power or

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Program of teens’ stories focus of new book

Diversity, Education, Healing, Personal Storytelling, Pro-Sig, Storytelling It's News! / June 29, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Times Union, Albany, NY May 24, 2019 Since 2006, Children at the Well (C@W http://www.childrenatthewell.org ) has brought teens from the Capital Region of New York State together to share their stories. Now the group has published a book so other educators and organizations can incorporate storytelling into their worlds using the C@W method. “Our

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