DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING Her Story, Your Story, Our Story: An Afternoon With Women Who Have Escaped The Troll © Regina Ress and Art by Emily McPhie What message do you want to send to other women who’ve been captured by a “Troll? “Love yourself enough to leave.” Anything else? “Don’t […]
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Lebanese Storytellers In Their Own Words Where do you find some of the richest, most powerful stories in the world? Somewhere ancient, where the drama of human life has played itself out in a 40-year civil war, corrupt leaders laying waste to an economy, and a devastating explosion that destroyed over 300,000 homes amid a
$5000 to CHILDREN AT THE WELL: AN INTERFAITH, INTERGENERATIONAL STORYTELLING VENTURE Schenectady, New York Project Director: Gert Johnson www.childrenatthewell.org “Children at the Well” has as its goal the creation of a positive and lasting model for storytelling across generations and religious faiths. Twenty-eight teachers and 13 students in grades 6-9 who expressed a high
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Event for Ages 10+ Hosted by Regional Director Sarah Juba Addison, Emceed by Sarah Malone Stories The Singing Sack told by Liz MangualA determined and clever mother saves her daughter from a dim witted and greedy ogre.Liz’s signature style of bilingual participatory storytelling is animated with foolish children, talking hummingbirds, not-so-smart ogres, and wise old
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By Allison Cox. It is kismet. I take a break from editing storytelling articles to come to the IsleWilde Festival here on Vashon Island Washington, and stories are unfolding all around me. Artists of all kinds travel from near and far to join islanders in creating this weekend pageant where the line between audience and
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This is our first Story Kin and Cousin Conversation. We continue the vision of the Story NOW! interviews by exploring the power of storytelling to transcend divisions and create change. We’ll interview an oral storyteller and a cousin storyteller from a kindred art form. For this conversation we join Sofia Jamall, a graduate student with
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Haunted: Share the Scare HAUNTED: SHARE THE SCARE SCHEDULE(all times Central Standard Time) 8:00 am – 8:30 am Opening Story from the Youth, Educators, and Storyteller’s Alliance SIG, Land Acknowledgement, and Announcements 8:30 am – 9:45 am “Early Bat” Social Hour 10:00 am – 11:00 am Talking the Edge Off: Swordplay and Storytelling by the
$5000 to USING STORYTELLING TO PROMOTE GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS IN THE ROYAL KINGDOM OF BHUTAN Project Director: Steve Evans In his proposals, project director Steve Evans stated his goals as: To conduct a national values assessment survey To list and annotate all the country’s known published folktales, indicating the values they represent To compare the
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Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was a great conqueror, and reigned over more countries than anyone in the world. And whenever he subdued a fresh kingdom, he only granted peace on condition that the king should deliver him one of his sons for ten years’ service. Now on the borders of
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From the sound of Mark Fletcher’s bagpipes, leading the children to the festival grounds on a misty Friday morning, to the last shivery ghost tale told by Mary-Eileen McClear on Saturday night, the first annual St. Marys Storytelling Festival carried an aura of magic. The magic had begun with an idea in the spring of
