Passover, Holy Week & Easter, and Ramadan
A Time of Holy Stories and Celebrations – In the Midst of a Pandemic Today I received an email greeting from my friends at WithOurVoice/Children at the Well/Interfaith Story Circle in New York… I cannot say it any better than they, so I’m sharing here nearly word-for-word, to amplify their message today: The Festival of […]
Resource for Online HOLY WEEK WORSHIP – Passion Story
Storytelling in the time of Coronavirus… I’ve been working up to re-starting my blog (it’s been so very long…life…), and especially so since we find ourselves in the strange reality of living ‘midst a serious pandemic – and so it turns out I’m resurrecting it as we draw near to Easter, to announce a special […]
Heaven and Hell
Just too much. There was just too much in my head and in my heart. So I didn’t write anything. It’s been nearly two weeks since the November 13 violence in Paris. I’d been on the brink of writing a blog post about I-can’t-remember-what now, it suddenly seemed off-base and inconsequential so I never wrote […]
Getting Back on the (Blogging) Horse!
It’s been wa-a-a-a-ay too long. 4 months-plus since my last blog post. Past time to get back on that horse!
Themes…Storytelling Programs & Story Slams
It’s pretty common for storytelling programs to have themes. Themes for conferences, library summer reading programs, festival, confabs, house concerts – or even just a particular one-storyteller show. A theme can be – fairly specific and help with focus, and pulling elements of an event together, or can be pretty broad and umbrella-like, and open […]
Kindness – So Glad THAT Was the Response
Another short story: The first story slam I went to in October, “Truth Be Told – The Boulder Story Slam,” was an eye-opening experience. The venue was a back room with a small stage at a restaurant, Shine. The place was packed. Servers squeezed through the rows and tables to take order for drinks and […]
Heritage
Heritage: Something transmitted by or acquired from a predecessor: legacy, inheritance; tradition Oh-so-very-much could be written on this, but for today just a brief consideration of a very large difference between traditional storytelling and story slam storytelling – and while I’ve so far written more about process and form, this is primarily about content.
Festivals & Conferences of Storytelling (but of Story Slams?)
[Top photograph is from the 2012 Beyond the Border Wales International Storytelling Festival, showing just one of the dozen concert venues throughout the St. Donats Castle grounds. I had the delight of performing shows there that year. WONDERFUL storytelling festival!] Think about it… Two or more solid days – no really, think about it: two […]
Trickster Tales – Just a Teeny Taste!
“The trickster exists in every culture as Coyote, Jack, Hans, Nasrudin, Anansi the Spider, and many more. He or she is a teacher and a fool in equal measure.” – So says the promo for tonight’s storytelling evening I’m eagerly anticipating… “Trickster Tales” is tonight’s offering in the “Stories with Spirit” series – live storytelling […]
6 Ways TEACHING Storytelling Helps One be a Better Storyteller
The Set-Up I recently had a whirlwind gig: Designing and giving a one-hour training to 350 museum volunteers, to equip them to tell pre-selected traditional stories as part of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s upcoming “Mythic Creatures” exhibit.
