Story Slam: Amplify
Presented as part of NSN’s Amplify Weekend Hosted by Dr. Raymond Christian
This workshop manifests the theme of “engagement through empathy.” It starts with a highly interactive exercise designed to evoke a strong, empathetic response to being “outside” – invoking motivation to action. It then provides storytellers with the specific tools and techniques they require to adapt this method to their own issues and communities. Dialogue and
Reuters.uk (UK), May 24, 2007 Summary: Ancient stories first told by the Aztecs and Sumerians are helping businesses and people in the age of the Internet to make sense of modern life. Professional storytellers like Dez Quarrell are using tales culled from cultures around the world to explain the conundrums of modern life for technology
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San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA), June 22, 2005 Summary: The Digital Clubhouse Network, founded in Sunnyvale, and the regional California Pioneers of Santa Clara County, are now partners sharing facilities at History Park in San Jose. “To my knowledge, this will be the first partnership of this type in the country among traditional
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Bylaws – August 2023 Financials NSN, like other non-profits during COVID, has had to take a hard look at finances and see where we can do the most good with a limited amount of resources. The Board continually works to align NSN’s strategic goals with available funds, implement fundraising campaigns, and move the organization decisively
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A Statement Concerning the Importance of Storytelling in Education presented by the Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance (YES!) A Special Interest Group of the National Storytelling Network, August 1, 2006 YES! Position Paper: Storytelling in Education? YES!
CONNECTED: CREATING TOMORROW – honoring the past and shaping our future. National Storytelling Network invites you – the storyteller and listener – to join us in five unique days of programming that encourages a perception of the future as one filled with opportunities, hope, and connection. While celebrating our roots and honoring the paths already
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The Edinburgh Reporter (Edinburgh, Scotland), October 10, 2015 Summary: The stranger is often a revealer of truth; his arrival casts a stone into the water, shakes us out of our complacency. But who is the stranger? What separates him from us – what makes him ‘strange’? The theme of the 2015 Scottish International Storytelling
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A Discussion Group, more informal than a SIG and charging no dues, assists NSN members in contacting other members who share a common storytelling interest. You must be a member of NSN to join a Discussion Group. How to Form a Discussion Group: Step 1: Discussion Group organizers send a written request to the NSN