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Red Feather Woman Weaves Native American Christmas Story for Eager Crowd at Museum

Diversity, Education, Storytelling It's News! / December 11, 2009 / By Dorothy Cleveland

Estes Park Trail Gazette (Estes Park, CO) , December 11, 2009 Summary: “Storytelling is customary in the wintertime,” Red Feather Woman said. “There`s more time. Imagine this is my teepee. You`ve come together as a community to hear stories and songs. We`re all connected, everything — places, animals, people.” Rose Red Elk (Red Feather Woman) […]

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Project Tells the Digital Story of Latino Culture

Digital Storytelling, Diversity, Education, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / September 9, 2009 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Spartan Daily (San Jose State Universtiy, CA), September 9, 2009 Summary: Students and members of the community gathered Wednesday night on campus to watch personal stories of triumph as part of the Latino Digital Storytelling Project. One of the stories was that of Maria Perez, an ex-first generation gang member. Her story described life growing

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Project Tells the Digital Story of Latino Culture

Digital Storytelling, Diversity, Education, Personal Storytelling / September 9, 2009 / By Dorothy Cleveland

Spartan Daily (San Jose State Universtiy, CA) , September 9, 2009 Summary: Students and members of the community gathered Wednesday night on campus to watch personal stories of triumph as part of the Latino Digital Storytelling Project. One of the stories was that of Maria Perez, an ex-first generation gang member. Her story described life

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Telling Stories, Building Bridges

Diversity, Education, Storytelling It's News! / June 2, 2009 / By Dorothy Cleveland

Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest (IL) , June 2, 2009 Summary: Multi-cultural exchanges, such as a Kwanzaa celebration from a few years back, are common at Unity Temple. Interfaith dialogue is again on tap for this Saturday. Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), recalled that the

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Oral History Class Preserves History, Promotes Community

Diversity, Education, Storytelling It's News! / May 21, 2009 / By Dorothy Cleveland

Arizona State University News (Phoenix, AZ) , May 21, 2009 Summary: Save Our Stories (SOS) is a new Communication Studies degree course in Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Designed to preserve the stories of a diverse community while teaching students communication skills and research applications, the SOS course is directed

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Champaign-Urbana Group Revives Art of Storytelling

Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / April 7, 2009 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Daily Illini (University of Illinois, Champaign, IL), April 7, 2009 Summary: The Champaign-Urbana Storytelling Guild takes storytelling from children’s bedtime fodder to an elaborate art form. The Guild, which was founded in 2001, sponsors local storytelling concerts and events and participates in workshops and benefits. “The whole point of it is to support new tellers

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Life Stories: Children Find Meaning in Old Family Tales

Education, Healing, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / March 11, 2009 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Wall Street Journal (New York, NY), March 11, 2009 Summary: As parents cut budgets, many are finding family stories have surprising power to help children through hard times. Storytelling experts say the phenomenon reflects a growing national interest in telling tales, evidenced by a rise in storytelling events and festivals. New research bears out the

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Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One

Education, Healing, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / February 16, 2009 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Newsweek (New York, NY), February 16, 2009 Summary: Ann Banks, editor of First-Person America, an anthology of oral histories collected by the WPA’s Federal Writers’ Project, wrote: I was raised on Depression stories; this was only one of many told around our dinner table. Hearing them again and again, I became fascinated by the role

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The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn

Business, Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / September 1, 2008 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Scientific American Mind (New York, NY), September, 2008 Summary: Storytelling is a human universal, and common themes appear in tales throughout history and all over the the world. The best stories—those retold through generations and translated into other languages—do more than simply present a believable picture. These tales captivate their audience, whose emotions can be

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Empathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy

Digital Storytelling, Education, Storytelling It's News! / September 1, 2008 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Journal of Evolution and Technology (Hartford, CT), – Vol. 19 Issue 1 – September 2008 – pgs 51-61 Summary: Will the transhuman technologies that our accelerating future promises enable us to increase our empathy to others? Or will their use decrease our ability to understand ‘the other’ that exists outside our own selves, families,

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