February Story Lab: Stories Black Women Tell – A Stream of Culture Reverend Tawana Davis, co-founder of Soul 2 Soul Sisters Centuries before the heinous inception of this country through the enslavement of African peoples and Indigenous First Nation people, there were griots amid numerous countries in West Africa. Griots are storytellers, leaders, mystics, historians, […]
February 2021 – Reverend Tawana Davis Details »
Presented as part of the 2021 Earth Up Conference We all have a story to tell. Discover your personal connection to climate change and how it can serve as a powerful tool to inspire others. This interactive workshop consists of a series of prompts that invite individual writing, reflection and small group sharing to develop
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Presented as part of the 2021 Earth Up Conference How can we use stories to help ourselves and others cross the imaginal bridge from life as we know it now, to life as it could be in the more beautiful, regenerative world our hearts know is possible? Learn how to tell stories that can make
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Presented as part of the 2021 Earth Up Conference Join your fellow participants and NSN Chair Katie Knutson for a reflection of the weekend. Share experiences, takeaways, insights, and future actions in small group breakout rooms. We will close with the song âOne Foot/Lead With Loveâ by Melanie DeMore. http://www.melaniedemore.com
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In the winter of 2000, the storytelling community lost one of its most original and daring artists to cancer. J.J. Reneaux was a storyteller, children’s book author, singer, and songwriter. J.J. grew up poor in the Delta bayous and was rich in the lore of her Cajun people. She succeeded by virtue of a native
by Heather Forest Ancient and epic tales have migrated with people wherever people have traveled the globe. Carried in the heart rather than the hand, these ancient narratives are humanityâs heirlooms. They have been preserved over time by the tongues of tellers and have migrated into literature, captured by scribes. In my workshop intensive at
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This edition of Tell Us Something was recorded on August 19th, 2014 at the Top Hat Lounge in Missoula, MT. The theme was âBusted!â This weekâs story comes to us from Ingrid Beihl and is titled âThat Really Happens?â Ingrid Biehl is a 16 year old high school student trying to figure out her sexuality.
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Once upon a time, in a land just a few blocks away, I had the unrequited desire to be a drag queen. The lesbians could make no sense of it. âYou canât be a drag queen. Youâre a girl.â I was undeterred. I had had a lifetime of people telling me what I could not
Honoring the Inner Feminine Details »
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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by Carrie Sue Ayvar Magical words. Each summer at my grandparentsâ house, my Grandma Selma would ask us, âWhere would you like to go today?â Then she would utter those magical words and we would be off â to Europe, Africa, South America and beyond! She taught us that we could travel around the world,
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