Post written by Lyn Ford was a Guest on the show on Tuesday May 1th at 7pm. Missed the call? Don’t worry - you can listen right now by clicking the play button.

Lyn Ford Writes…
“Breaking” into storytelling isn’t quite the description that fits the beginnings of my career. It was more like leaping off the edge of a cliff, with all the materials to build a strong glider that would carry me wherever I should go, but no blueprint or directions on how to build the thing. I had to trust that I would create both the blueprint and the directions, and be able to make the glider, as I headed toward solid ground. Scary, exciting, and very educational!

My mind and heart were filled with stories from my family’s oral tradition, but storytelling as a career hadn’t occurred to me. Our kids, now grown, volunteered my stories in their classrooms (bless their little hearts!); the experience Continue Reading »

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Post written by Manitonquat (Medicine Story) who was a Guest on the show on Tuesday April 24th at 7pm. Missed the call? Don’t worry - you can listen right now by clicking the play button.

Selections from the book RETURN TO CREATION, by Manitonquat (Medicine Story):

What we need to investigate and learn together is healing. In a time of great sickness nothing else should concern us. Healing the earth, healing society, healing our communities, healing ourselves. To paraphrase a saying, if we are not part of the medicine, we are part of the disease.
You have come to the circle which this book represents to hear me speak. Perhaps you wish to learn something about Native American healing from a medicine man. Maybe you wish to experience a healing yourself. Well, I hope you do learn something, and I hope you get in touch with the spirit of healing. I must tell you, however, that the healing power for you is only within you. A medicine person’s real job, whether it be with a ritual, with herbs, with steam or water, with song or dance or with story - whatever the medicine, the real work is to convince you of your own healing power. That is the healing power of Creation which is within each of us.
Sickness of any kind is a dissonance in the harmony of nature, a noisy intrusion into the Song of Creation. A certain amount of dissonance and conflict is expected and desirable. They are a spur to consciousness. Our most essential teachers are Continue Reading »

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Post written by Jonatha Wright who was a Guest on the show on Tuesday April 17th at 7pm. Missed the call? Don’t worry - you can listen right now by clicking the play button.

Jonatha Wright writes…
Probably we are all aware of the cultural confusions and misconceptions that become evident daily in this world of instant updates. It has become the stuff of novels, movies and the nightly news. These errors in sensitivity can hurt feelings, and cause outright insults and rage in the offended.

*How can we avoid some of these mistakes?

As storytellers, we often aim high at bridging these cultural gaps with an appropriate and well-told story. This is a worthy goal and an attainable one. However, we must do Continue Reading »

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If you are interested in exploring the way we in America allow others to define our cultural values and agendas you have to…
Check out this Article in the Washington Post.

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Sunday, July 1st
Sunday, July 8th
1p.m. to 4p.m.

We will be offering a workshop for youth ages 10 to 17in storytelling.
Youth who participate will have the opportunity to tteellll stories
in the pre-show on the YSKP stage before Sense and Sensibility.
$25 fee. Space is limited.
Register through Brother Wolf’s website: www.ericwolf.org/register
Eric Wolf (A.K.A. Brother Wolf) is a world
traveled storyteller who has performed in
hundreds of schools across the country.
A gifted storyteller, he is also skilled at working
with children and allowing them to perform their
own stories. His work has been featured in the
American Museum of Natural History in NYC, Mercantile
Library, Columbia University, Kings island
Amusement Park.

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Post written by Mary Hamiliton.

What is a WOW Weekend?

A WOW Weekend is a “Working on Our Work” Storytelling Weekend facilitated by Scheherazade’s Legacy - Mary Hamilton & Cynthia Changaris. Wow Weekends provide an opportunity for storytellers of all experience levels to gather as peers and grow in the art of telling stories. Each storyteller participating in a WOW Weekend is guaranteed the same amount of time (minimum one hour) for the group to focus their attention on the teller’s work. Using an artist-centered process, each participant will be able to Continue Reading »

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Click the linkthat says www.ericwolf.org on top of the page.

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