Video is an exploding business tool! Where before potential producers or clients might have wanted a press kit from you, now they want (and expect) to be able to see you in action. However, a bad video is worse than no video at all. According to the Wharton School of Business, a well-produced video increases […]
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By Jessica Robinson, Better Said Than Done As the number of new covid cases start to go down in many areas of the country, more and more events are going hybrid. As a show producer – I produce Better Said Than Done out of Fairfax, VA – and a video producer – I run a
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You are not alone. The National Storytelling Network would like to provide its members and their communities with resources to provide relief during these challenging times. For more information about COVID-19 and how to protect yourself and loved ones, please visit the CDC’s website. NSN’s Corporate Treasurer Discusses Financial Resources: NSN is not partnering with
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March 2007 by Kate Dudding At the 2006 Sharing the Fire, the storytelling conference presented by the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling, Jo Radner gave an excellent keynote challenging us to come up with ways to raise storytelling to the same level as music and theatre. Her keynote got me thinking.
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by Lauretta Phillips I am making a New Year To Do list. No resolutions. They get buried in the pile on my desk to make me feel guilty later. 2012 went by so quickly that I find myself reflecting back to see what I missed. I really missed those face to face hugs I usually
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by Lani Peterson Psy.D. The first Public Voice Project (PVP) was launched in November of 2004 by the City Mission Society in Boston. Over the course of four evenings, seven formerly incarcerated men met for the purpose of exploring the use and effects of storytelling. My participation with PVP was as the storytelling coach. Carla
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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
DIVING IN THE MOON DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING © Cooper Braun Once upon a time, a young soldier returned to the shores of America from the jungles of Vietnam. In the city where he found himself discharged, he had no friends and no family. And he found that the people there did not
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By Cathryn Fairlee My Master’s Thesis in History was on Professional Chinese Teahouse Telling and I presented samples of these styles at the NSN conference in Cincinnati. Professional storytelling was passed on orally from master to apprentice for generations, for there was no respect for those who were not taught for a number of years
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