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Brother Wolf Storytelling
Eric James Wolf, P.O. Box 711, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 45387
(937) 767-8696

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About the podcast

The Art of Storytelling show was begun by Brother Wolf in the spring 2007 as a way to support the art form world-wide. Every week he interviews a new person on the podcast. Each guest covers a different aspect of the art of storytelling. The interviews are conducted in person or in a conference call format which anyone is welcome to participate on the call. You are welcome to join a call or just listen online, use iTunes, or your podcasting software. If you like what you hear, write a comment on the related post on the blog. It really fuels the guests and the host.

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To listen to a past shows right now goto the Storytelling Podcast Episode List

About Brother Wolf, the host of the podcast

Eric Wolf was awarded an Oracle Award for Distinguished Service to the National Storytelling Community in 2010 for his work on the podcast. This Oracle award is the highest award given by the storytelling community to those who have worked to support the art of storytelling nation wide.

Eric James Wolf was born three minutes after the taxi arrived at a New York City hospital on January 20th, 1970. He has attended numerous educational institutions, both public and private, graduating with a BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic for which his senior project was storytelling. His experience has included an apprenticeship with a professional storyteller. He completed an M.S. in Environmental Education from Lesley University – sister school to Harvard.

He has been telling stories since 1993 for compensation – but his first public performance was at the age of 8 when his sister told her teacher that he was a good storyteller. The kindergarten teacher proceeded to nod knowingly and invited him to tell a story to her class. Little did she know – 20 minutes later, with the lights turned low, Eric finished telling, “The Old Man in the Shack.” Then the fifteen parents lined up out side were finally able to pick up their children.

Brother Wolf tells several genres of stories: modern fairytales, morality tales, peace stories, historical characterizations and personal tall tales. These stories all have one common theme to them – they teach children to have a magical, mystical and imaginative world view. If you know of some children who need a little reimagining, please let him know.

He travels world-wide. If you are interested in learning more about his storytelling voice and work, check out one of the pages listed on the bottom of the page or in the middle of the page on the right.

Here is a list of a few places he has told stories around the world…

A Few Venues

Smithsonian in Washington D.C. Albany Free School, Antioch School, American Museum of Natural History, Bank Street School for Children, Bar Harbor YMCA, Maine, Barnard Collage, Blue Theater – Toronto, Canada, Community Access Foundation, Columbia University, Dayton Islamic Elementary, Eco Festival, Frost Valley YMCA camp,
The Fund for the City of New York, Hasting on Hudson Grade School. Kings Island Amusement Park, Our Lady Rose Elementary, Macy School,New York City Clear Water Festival, Mid-Hudson Museum of Natural History, New Jersey Liberty Science Center, PS. 75 Elementary School, WBAI Craft Fair, Toronto Blue Theater, 90.7 WJSC RADIO Straight Truth, 99.5 FM WBAI Radio Morning Show

Eric James Wolf

To learn more about Brother Wolf – please check out his professional storytelling site.

Brother Wolf | March 25, 2007 12:35 pm

13 Comments

By jan andrews, July 27, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed meeting you in St. Louis. You mentioned the podcasts. I’d definitely be interested. Here’s to long, long stories. Best, Jan
By Norah Dooley, August 12, 2007 @ 2:04 pm

What a treasure trove of information, inspiration and great conversation.
Eric, I am so glad I found this.
Where have I been?

Keep the spirit high.
And I hope our paths cross soon.

Norah Dooley
http://www.norahdooley.com
By Roland Watier, October 5, 2007 @ 8:37 pm

Eric,

I would love to join you for your podcast, and to invite you to tell your stories at the Golden Raven Storytelling in Union, Maine next summer. I think you would be a great addition to our storytellers!

Roland Watier
http://www.thegoldenraven.org
By Tom McCormack, October 8, 2007 @ 4:42 pm

Eric;

I’d like to participate.

All The Best ~ Tom
By Eric Wolf, October 8, 2007 @ 6:14 pm

Tom & Roland
You are both welcome to participate on the podcast as audience members on the conference call. If you or anyone else wants to participant on the podcast all you have to do is go to the home page of this site and fill in your name and email. I will send you weekly instructions on how to join the call with times and guest.

If you wish to be the featured guest on the podcast I would suggest that you write a proposal email to me. My email address is on the right hand side of this web page on the bottom. My first question to you will be – have you listened to the show? If you answer is no â€“ donâ€™t be surprised by my lack of interest in you proposal. Look at the list of past/future guests and subjects – itâ€™s a good indication of what subject I want to cover â€“ in the future.

Thank-you for your interest.

Eric Wolf
By R. Ramachandran, April 1, 2008 @ 2:35 am

I WOULD LIKE TO PUBLICISE OUR STORYTELLNG FESTIVAL IN SINGAPORE
By R. Ramachandran, June 18, 2008 @ 5:41 am

Could you help us do this. Thanks
By Karol Brown, November 8, 2008 @ 5:25 pm

Hello Eric,
I want to thank you for your podcast and all the great guest you have interviewed. I am listing to the podcast on using the internet taped live at the NSN conference. Great information. Please add my website link to your list and I will and your address to mine. Do you offer coaching on storytelling?
I live in Washington State, but my home town is Dayton, Ohio. We, my husband and I will be in Dayton next month, November and I would like to talk to you. We are going to perform our program in Dayton, and I would like to invite you to attend. I do a historical portrayal of Harriet Tubman. I have learned so much from you, I would appreciate your feedback on our program. Again thank you for your podcast.

Take care,

Karol Brown
By J. Seaquist, March 14, 2009 @ 4:27 pm

I’ve been working on an essay for my Eng. 102 class. From a list of approved topics, I chose fairy tales, deciding that I would expore their origins, meanings, and practicality in today’s world. Satisfies with my topic, I headed for the local library to grab a few books.

Now, when I say a few, I mean…there were two shelves in the reference section and none of the books were the ones I was looking for. Well, okay, I found Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf, but I couldn’t find anything by Zipes, and a few hurried cell phone calls from the library parking lot to every bookstore in town gave me nothing either.

The internet has been slightly more helpful, but, with all the websites out there discecting peices of literature, I had assumed there would be more. There isn’t.

That’s why I’m so thrilled to have found this place. I’m sure that helping college freshman wasn’t really the goal when this was set up, but I wanted you to know that you’re helping even those of us who aren’t storytellers.

Kudos.

Jenn
By Eric, July 28, 2010 @ 12:46 am

From one Eric to another ;o)

I’ve always been interested in storytelling for almost as long as I can remember but I kind of lost sight of it until I discovered podcasts; yours as well as a number of others.

I’ve been using storytelling in my ministry for years but had not really named it as such until I began following these podcasts. Now two years later and I’m in full swing. I have a great love for fairy tales especially and the shows that you’ve done surrounding that genre have been quite influential.

One thing I haven’t heard mentioned in your casts is the fact that, for those looking for some of those very classic fairy tales project gutenberg is a fabulous and free source. I have been spending my summer reading through the all of the colored fairy books of Andrew Lang as well as The Grimms and a slew of others. A really wonderful way of getting comfortable with the ‘world’ of the fairy tale.

for anyone else interested here’s the gutenberg link; http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Peace and God Bless,

Eric