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Steve Otto – Bringing Storytelling to New Communities.

Aug 19

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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.

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Steve Otto talks about hhow you can have a low cost storytelling festival in your area.
Interview #020 Steve Otto, one of the founders of the Chicken Festival.
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Bringing Storytelling to New Communities.

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 Read the rest of this entry »

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Cristin Thomas – Exposing new audiences to storytelling.

Aug 14

Posted by Brother Wolf in Artistic Marketing, Episode List, Festival Storytelling, Professional Development | No Comments

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Interview #019 Cristin Thomas
Director of the Tejas Storytelling Association
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Exposing new audiences to storytelling.

We covered the following topics…

1. Building a festival
2. Grants
3. Sponsorships
4. Marketing
5. Strategic Planning for an Organization
6. Positioning the organization for continual growth
7. The need for clarity

Planning for the future…
Looking ahead is so important. Know the road that you are traveling with clarity of your mission and knowledge of your vision. Many organizations can trap themselves in the survival of day to day. When this happens it is extremely difficult to Read the rest of this entry »

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Ellen Munds – The A B C’s of Running a Storytelling Festival.

Aug 6

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Ellen Munds speaks about the A B C's of running a storytelling festival on the national level.
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Interview #016 Ellen Munds, Executive Director of Arts Indiana.
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The A B C’s of Running Festival.

Ellen Munds Writes..
In this interview we cover how to;

  1. 1. Create your mission statement or why you want to do a festival
  2. 2. Determine your target audience
  3. 3. Details such as indoor or outdoor, specific site for an event, accessibility, design and traffic flow of the site
  4. 4. Artistic Elements
  5. 5. Marketing and Public Relations
  6. 6. Funding
  7. 7. Budget
  8. 8. Volunteers
  9. 9. Care and Feeding of the storytellers, sponsors and volunteers
  10. 10. Evaluation of your Festival.

This interview should be heard by all members of the national storytelling network who are interested in running or creating there own storytelling festival. Storytellers who are serious about working the festival circuit should consider this episode required listening.

Ellen Munds is the executive director of Storytelling Arts of Indiana and one of three co-founders. She has served as the chair of the Read the rest of this entry »

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Bill Mckell – Building a Storytelling Festival from the Ground Up.

Jun 20

Posted by Brother Wolf in Episode List, Festival Storytelling, Storytelling in Community | 1 Comment

Bill Mckell is the founder of the Chillicothe Storytelling Festival and a professional storyteller himself.
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Interview #011 Bill McKell
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Founding a Festival from Scratch.

Bill Mckell writes…
Creating the Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival in Chillicothe has been an interesting journey. I guess it began when my wife and I started attending the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN when our daughters were quite young. When they became old enough to enjoy attending storytelling festivals, we were reluctant to invite them into the “get away” weekend we enjoyed in eastern Tennessee each year. So we searched for an alternate festival to which we could take them. We found the Cave Run Storytelling Festival near Morehead, KY and began taking them there. After attending a couple of years, my wife and I wondered if we could do something similar in our hometown of Chillicothe. The art and tradition of storytelling seemed a natural complement to the Read the rest of this entry »

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Lyn Ford – Breaking into Storytelling

Apr 24

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Breaking into Storytelling.

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 Read the rest of this entry »

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