Presented as part of NSN’s 2022 Fringe Festival Folktale Translation: A Study This performance focuses on the transcription, translation, and analysis of folktales from the Central Eastern Coastal region of China. Xiaoyi Zeng, a high school senior from Washington, will be discussing the process of her research, methodologies of translation, and her own insights on […]
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Eleven Recipients Presented with ORACLE Awards from National Storytelling Network Since their inception in 1995, the ORACLE Awards have been presented by the National Storytelling Network to those who have excelled in their art, or made significant contributions to storytelling, NSN or its members. This year, National Storytelling Network honors eleven ORACLE Award recipients. Jeannine
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Oprah.com February 2018 Summary Sharing a personal story is similar to a group therapy session. The teller is reducing her psychological burden AND the listeners can have a physically healing experience. According to Nancy Morgan, writing clinician and director emeritus of the arts and humanities program at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.C.,
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By Peggy Helmick-Richardson. For it was a saying among them that a man is not really dead until he is forgotten. —“Cow-Tail Switch” from A Treasury of African Folklore, Harold Courlander. Born in 1924, Hilda Stern Cohen was raised in the tiny German village of Nieder Ohmen. When Hitler came to power, Hilda and her
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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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DCist.com (Washington, DC), April 15, 2008 Summary: Ira Glass, creator and host of the weekly public radio story anthology This American Life, led an inspiring two-hour discussion of the techniques of storytelling as practiced by the staff of This American Life, and the reasons stories are so indispensable to our humanity. Glass observed that storytelling
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The HOUR of REVELATION is HERE! The Programming Committee is thrilled to announce NSN’s 2020 Halloween Gala Tellers! Oct 30: MISCHIEF NIGHT Haunted Story Slam (6pm Central US Time) YOU! Prepare your best 5-min true personal “Haunted” story & throw your name in the hat! Storied Costume Contest (8pm Central US Time) YOU! (Again!) Don
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Marketplace | October 21, 2019 by Bennett Purser and Kai Ryssdal College degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) are seen as lucrative, reliable path to a career. But an uptick in STEM majors since the financial crisis means English majors are down 25.5%, which appears to be worrying some economic leaders. That’s because
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Presented as part of the 2021 Earth Up Conference Margaret Read MacDonald (Washington) | HostJen and Nat Whitman (Bangkok) | Mikku and the TreesJenni Cargill-Strong (Australia) | Mosquito Extermination ProjectJoe Hayes (New Mexico) | Frog and LocustGecko Cannot SleepJudith Black (Massachusetts) | Spider and the Palm-Nut TreeRoger Jenkins (Singapore) and Paula Martín (Argentina) | The
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