Lunch Q&A with Loren Niemi, NSN Board Chair
Join the National Storytelling Network chair, Loren Niemi, for a discussion about the organization and questions from our membership and beyond.
Lunch Q&A with Loren Niemi, NSN Board Chair Details »
Join the National Storytelling Network chair, Loren Niemi, for a discussion about the organization and questions from our membership and beyond.
Lunch Q&A with Loren Niemi, NSN Board Chair Details »
Told by Mary Hamilton Click to Listen hamilton-jumprope About the Story Many years ago, while sitting at the kitchen table of my storytelling friend and colleague Cynthia Changaris, I told her I felt it was way too easy for me to remember times when I had felt wronged, and I wondered what I would tell
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TheConversation.com Jan. 15, 2018 Summary: Similar to many Indigenous groups worldwide, the James Bay Cree of northern Québec have a unexpectedly high rate of diabetes. Their method of their solution was taken from their culture: A Talking Circle in print. Cree health representatives choose people with diabetes whose stories they thought important. Then they hired
Indigenous group tackles diabetes with storytelling Details »
After the keynotes, join Ekansh in this small-group Question and Answer session where we can learn even more about Ekansh and his journey.
Lunch Q&A with Ekansh Tambe Details »
by Willy Claflin I’m really looking forward to joining all of you at the National Storytelling Conference in Richmond this August 1-4. Last summer we planted a seed. A new domain name was registered: The American Storytelling Festival. A new festival was proposed. Somewhat tongue in cheek, it promised to be Everything You Ever Wanted.
The New American Storytelling Festival: If Not Now, When? Details »
by Ellen Munds In my early days of fundraising, the idea of asking someone for money made me physically sick. But I also knew that no one was going to do it for me, so I had to learn how. In 1996, I attended a one-week course at the Fund Raising School of Indiana University
Ease Your Financial Worries: Fundraising for Storytelling Organizations Details »
by Nancy Mellon. A sturdy Israeli lawyer and devoted father, Hanan experiences the great joy of storytelling almost every day with his young children. He insists that he would have missed this pleasure were it were not for his wife, Tsipori, who has been practicing storytelling as a healing art for several years in the
Stories for the Journey Details »
by Jay O’Callahan Emily Dickinson was an artist who worked at her craft as we storytellers do. She worked with metaphor, cadence, rhythm, rhyme, character and shape. One critic called her a primitive in that she saw everything as if it was there for the first time. She can teach us about surprise and about
Sparks and Brush Strokes: What Storytellers Can Learn from Emily Dickinson Details »
by Mary K. Clark We all have them – personal stories. Whether we are performing, sharing anecdotes, family stories or heartfelt remembrances, we often tell our stories as if they were absolutely the truth and nothing but the truth. And, because we feel that way ourselves, our stories are often believed. Perhaps our stories are
Memory and Stories: Truth, Tales and Understanding Details »