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Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on September 24th at 8 PM ET – 2008. Thomas Freeze spike about the advantages of sharing ghost stories with children.
Thomas Freese writes… I enjoyied being on Eric’s “Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf Podcast” on September 23, 8PM Eastern time. I’ve been a professional storyteller and author of ghost story books for over a decade in addition to my work as an art therapist and licensed professional counselor. Our topic was “Why tell children scary ghost stories?” I have over a dozen storytelling programs that I perform for schools, libraries, festivals, churches and private parties. And several of those themed programs are ghost stories. I’ve collected both true ghost stories as well as authoring original fiction mysteries. Kids love storytelling and kids really love ghost stories!
I was fascinated with ghost stories since I was a middle school student. In fact, one of my favorite books, Strangely Enough, which I bought at a Scholastic Book Fair, is still in print and still available for kids at school. After reading it and questioning my Mom about Read more »
Fill out the form and press play to hear Dale Gilbert Jarvis speak on how to collect true scary stories for Halloween on the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf.
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How to collect true scary stories for Halloween.
Dale Jarvis Writes
Near to where I live is a small lake with the delightfully ghoulish name of Deadman’s Pond. According to local legend, the pond is bottomless, and I’m sure many people know of similar stories for lakes near where they live. These lakes and ponds offer us tantalizing doorways to another realm. Peering into the reflective surface of a still body of water and wondering what lies beneath provides us with a link to the unexplained. Perhaps this is why they fascinate us. It is not so much that we think they actually are bottomless, but that part of us wishes that they might be.
So too with ghost stories. I’ve told ghost stories to literally thousands of people over the past 13 years, and they continue to be Read more »
Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference panel presentation at the National Storytelling Conference on Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 11 am ET – 2008. The Future of Storytelling Online from left to right Brother Wolf as moderator, Panel members Rachel Hedman, Robert Kikuchi-yngojo, Mary Margaret O’Connor and Fred Crowe off picture to the right.
Here is a brief bio on each participant.
Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo was the co-founder, along with his wife Nancy Wang of Eth-Noh-Tec. For the past 26 years they’ve created, performed, and re-synthesized ancient Asian mythologies and folk tales. As a storyteller Robert also performs solo, traveling nationwide working with national chapters of Young Audiences and other agencies. Lesser known, are his accolades in the Asian American music scene. He has recently launched Eth-Noh-Tec’s new podcast: “Once A Pod A Time”.
Karen Chace is a storyteller, web researcher and director of a student storytelling troupe. She is the author of Story By Story – Building A Student Storytelling Club, contributed to the NSN publications, A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling, Telling Stories to Children and writes the Stor-e Telling column for Storytelling Magazine. She maintains a amazing website of resources at http://www.storybug.net
Rachel Hedman (http://www.rachelhedman.com) is a fusion of energy who takes everyday events, discovers the adventure behind them, and shares the stories with everyone. From sophomore high school youth teller to BYU Storytelling Club founder, she now serves as Co-Chair for the Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance. She spearheads approval of the Boy Scouts of America storytelling merit badge. She posts semi-monthly on her blog ” Voice – A Storyteller’s Lifestyle” at http://storytellingadventures.blogspot.com.
Mary Margaret O’Connor is the founder of iTales.com. Mary Margaret lives in Irvine, California and runs a pharmaceutical marketing consulting company. She is married with two kids. Despite this being her first visit to the beautiful Great Smokey Mountains, she couldn’t quite get inspired enough for yesterday’s 5am Pacific Time hike!
Eric Wolf is a children’s storyteller and host of the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf. Eric Wolf has a M.S. from Lesley University, apprenticed with Storyteller David Elhya in 1993. He writes on his experience as a dyslexic storyteller on his personal blog www.dyslexicstoryteller.blogspot.com/.
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Eth-Noh-Tec will be leading several cultural delegations to Asia: India 2008, China 2009, Singapore and Korea in subsequent years. This Fall, from Oct 31 through Nov 16, 2008, join them as they explore the storytelling in the oral and musical traditions of Chennai, India. There is room for their fall tour. Contact them: at there website www.ethnohtec.org or call: 415-282-8705.
Karen Chace has a four page handout available for you today. However, you may also receive it via email attachment. All of the URL’s will be hyperlinked for your convenience so you just have to point and click! Simply email Karen at storybug@aol.com with the subject heading “NSN Panel Offer.”
Be one of the first five people to post a comment to one of Rachel Hedman’s blog entries (http://storytellingadventures.blogspot.com), share feedback on the entry, and request for a one-hour free consultation call with her about your blog. All other people who respond are welcome to get quick tips by email – info@rachelhedman.com.
iTales would like to offer storytellers to go to www.iTales.com and sign up to sell your story. In return, we will host and assist in the global marketing of your story.
Fill out the form and press play to hear Jack Zipes the preeminent writer about and translator of fairytales appear on the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf.
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Fairy Tales are still relevant to the children of today.
Jack Zipes writes… At their best, the storytelling of fairy tales constitute the most profound articulation of the human struggle to form and maintain a civilizing process. They depict metaphorically the opportunities for human adaptation to our environment and reflect the conflicts that arise when we fail to establish civilizing codes commensurate with the self-interests of large groups within the human population. The more we give into base instincts – base in the sense of basic and depraved – the more criminal and destructive we become. The more we learn to relate to other groups of people and realize that their survival and the fulfillment of their interests is related to ours, the more we might construct social codes that guarantee humane relationships. Fairy tales are uncanny because they tell us what we need and they unsettle us by showing what we lack and how we might compensate for lack.
Fairy tales hint of happiness. This hint, what Ernst Bloch has called the anticipatory illumination, has constituted their utopian appeal that has a strong moral component to it. We do not know happiness, but we instinctually know and feel that it can be created and perhaps even defined. Fairy tales map out possible Read more »
Press Play to hear Jim May speaking on storytelling on the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf.
Jim May Writes… I tell stories to children because I learned many years ago that nothing in my ten years of experience as a classroom teacher held my elementary student’s attention like a story.
For some twenty-three years now, I have made my living as a professional, full time storyteller. That storytelling produces a singular, intensely vital experience in my listener’s imagination continues to be reinforced nearly every day of my professional storytelling life.
I remember a particular occasion telling stories to an auditorium full of primary-aged students (grades k-2). After the program was finished, the students filed past the front of the Read more »
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