Mar 3rd 2008Syd LiebermanDigital Storytelling & Episode List & Parental Resources & Personal Narrative & Storytelling & Storytelling in Community
Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 2/19/2008 with Syd Lieberman as he speaks about telling your family’s stories.
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Jan 25th 2008Brother WolfEpisode List & Storytelling & Storytelling in Community & Storytelling in Schools & Street Storytelling
Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 1/27/2008 with Alex the Jester (Alex Feldman) talks about how to use your physical relationship with your audience to build your success on the Art of Storytelling with Children Podcast.
Connecting Quickly (and Managing Behavior) through Physicality.
When telling for young audiences, even the most brilliant story is vulnerable to young audiences if the situation is compromised, or your delivery is not ideal for the setting. In this discussion, Alex reveals how his wild and mesmerizing style is methodically built, brick by brick. Small details can reap huge Continue Reading »
Dec 6th 2007Margaret Read MacDonaldCreating Success & International Storytelling & Peace Storytelling & Storytelling & Storytelling in Community
Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference on 12/11/2007 with storyteller the Margaret Read MacDonald and Brother Wolf discuss Telling Across Language Barriers.
This guest was interviewed on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 8 PM. If you are sorry you missed it join the email alert system to never miss another guest again..
Margaret Read MacDonald writes…
In 1994 one day the phone on my desk at the Bothell Library rang. A professor from Drew University was on the line. “Dr. Wajuppa Tossa would like you to call her in Thailand right away,” he said. “She wants you to come over there as a Fulbright Scholar.” I hung up and sat stunned. A Fulbright Scholar. To Thailand? Could I do that? I had a fulltime job as a children’s librarian. But maybe… I dialed the Thailand number right away to find out more. A very drowsy Dr. Wajuppa roused herself from her 3 am sleep to answer. First problem with communicating across language barriers? Get your time zones right!
It was in fact possible for me to go off to Thailand. The Fulbright program did accept me and the King County Library System gave me a sabbatical. So I arrived at the Continue Reading »
Sep 5th 2007Mary MargaretArtistic Marketing & Creating Success & Digital Storytelling & Episode List & Storytelling
Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 9/11/2007, Mary Margaret O’Connor, Owner of Itales.com. - Digital Storytelling using emerging technologies with your storytelling.
Mary Margaret O’Connor, has an amazing concept hear that is on the cutting edge of digital storytelling. Are conversation on how to use the online and digital experience to support storytelling is eye opening for any storyteller to see the potential for the storytelling art form in the 21st centaury.
Eric Wolf
——–Mary writes…
iTales.com started as a simple enough idea…create a website to house bedtime stories I tell to my children. But what started as a simple project based on a love of storytelling, evolved into a much better and more complex idea, still based on a love of storytelling! That idea became iTales, a website that allows storytellers to upload and sell individual stories. Over time, iTales will be home to thousands of fantastic mp3 audio stories from around the world and will be a method of Continue Reading »
Aug 19th 2007Steve OttoArtistic Marketing & Episode List & Festival Organizing & Storytelling
Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded on the Art of Storytelling with Children as a conference call on August 21th, 2007, Steve Otto talks about bringing Storytelling to New Communities with the Chicken Storytelling Festival.
Steve is one of those storytellers who has been around the block. Mastering his skill in storytelling over many years of dedicated work and effort as a storyteller. I found this interview about Steve’s work to bring Storytelling to new communities to be truly inspirational stuff. Storytelling can be for everyone.
Eric Wolf
Steve Otto has a degree in Speech and Dramatics, from the University of Missouri, with a specialty of Television Production. You have to realize that I got my degree when TV was in it’s infancy, and all production was done live (No video tape) and everything was done in Black and White. I worked at KOMU-TV Channel 8, in Columbia, Missouri, WPTA-TV, Channel 21, in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and KETC-TV, Channel 9, in St. Louis, Missouri. I started out as a cameraman, and worked into production as a producer-director. I loved television and really enjoyed the opportunity offered to a right brain person to see images and create pictures before the camera collected them. KETC-TV was the local PBS station and things went well until they Continue Reading »
Aug 8th 2007ETH-NOH-TECArtistic Marketing & Coaching Storytelling & Episode List & Storytelling
Interviiw with Ethnohtec; with Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo and Nancy Wang recorded on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007.
What does Vision and Purpose have to do with being a storyteller? How does one find a vision and why is it important? What would a storytelling career look like if the artist in in alignment with ones purpose? On a practical side, once the storyteller has clarified their mission in life, indentified a community to serve and method of storytelling to serve them, how does one approach the nitty gritty of running a business as a storyteller?
Eth-Noh-Tec with Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo and Nancy Wang explored these issues of the professional touring storyteller during this interview. Whether you are semi professional, a novice or seasoned storyteller, come listen to the challenges of the world of storytelling. Eth-Noh-Tec, now in it’s 25th year of storytelling talks about their humble Continue Reading »
Aug 3rd 2007Brother WolfArtistic Marketing & Brother Wolf & Coaching Storytelling & Episode List & Storytelling
Interview with Eric Wolf and Steve Otto recorded on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007.
Each level of development that storytellers go through has it’s pitfalls and limitations. How can we as storytellers avoid the pitfalls that have befallen those who gone before? In this discussion Eric Wolf and Steve Otto explore how we as storytellers can go to the next level in our practice as storytellers.
From beginners to experts, performers to marketers what are the most common ways that we accept our limitations instead of challenging them? How have others successfully risen to successful practice of storytelling? These are some of the questions that we look at in this hour long episode of the Art of Storytelling with Children Podcast.
Jul 23rd 2007Carol BirchDigital Storytelling & Episode List & Storytelling & Storytelling in Libraries
Interview with Carol Birch recorded on Tuesday, July 10rd, 2007.
“More opportunities equal more responsibilities” is a simple explanation of copyright. As a librarian, I can read or tell stories to children in the library or as part of a school visit. Fair use also permits me to tell stories in classrooms where I teach graduate students. Responsibilities change when I’m hired as a storyteller, then acting ethically means seeking permission. However, Catch 22’s abound.
Clearing performance rights is the first thing to do, when seriously considering a story penned by another. Unfortunately, the first thing publishers and agents ask for are the date(s) and time(s) a story is to be performed. And who knows?
For more information on this topic, listen to the podcast and read an article that will be published in UP FOR DISCUSSION in School Library Journal, August, 2007. We’ve got to work together to establish some precedents to which we can all refer when we contact publishers.
Carol Birch
Eric Wolf - “the documentary mentioned in the Podcast is called by Seinfiled and called Comedian”
Jun 23rd 2007RickEpisode List & Storytelling & Storytelling in Community & Storytelling in Schools
by Rick Carson interviewed on Tuesday, June 25th.
Rick has been a professional storyteller for almost 25 years. He specializes in mountain and tall tales, ghost and humorous stories for all ages. Rick is experienced in telling at schools, libraries, organizational meetings and festivals and in giving workshops and residencies. He’s a member of the National Storytelling Network, the International Order of EARS, the Ohio Order for the Preservation of Storytelling and a charter member of Miami Valley Storytellers.
It has been my experience that the scary story is one of the most popular genres. Children begin liking scary stories from about the age of 8 or 10, although the exact age varies with each individual child. Some children never like them. Scary stories seem to hold a fascination for adults as well as children. This is true for a variety of Continue Reading »
Jun 1st 2007Stephen HollenCoaching Storytelling & Episode List & Literacy & Storytelling & Storytelling in Schools
Post written by Stephen Hollen interviewed on Tuesday May 29nd at 7 PM Missed the call? Don’t worry - you can listen right now by clicking the play button.
Improvisational storytelling is a teaching tool that is a cross between storytelling that I have been doing for years and improv techniques I learned in my college days. Instead of aiming at oral tradition, it goes into the creative writing classroom to put “meat” on the three “Ps” - Person, Place and Problem plus one “P” of my own - Props.
By using these 4 “Ps” I help children in 3rd-5th grade unlock their creativity and develop the basics of Continue Reading »
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