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Doug Banner
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- Bellingham, WA
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"Inappropriate"
Replied Dec. 28, 2008
Anything worth the popcorn lately?
Replied Jul. 14, 2008
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Question of the Day
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- Doug Banner, Storyteller
Performances, workshops,Keynotes
Doug Banner is a twenty five year veteran of public education and has been a leader in the storytelling community and a promoter of the storytelling revival in Northwest Washington for ten years. He co-founded the Bellingham Storytellers Guild in 1998 and received the 2001 Mayor’s Arts Award. The Mayor's Arts Awards honor Bellingham citizens who have significantly contributed to the arts in the community.
Under Doug’s direction the Guild hosts two to three community oriented performances per month throughout the year and works closely with the city library system to promote literature and reading. In 2004 the Guild hosted the 2004 National Storytelling Conference. Doug has worked with the Healthy Communities Coalition to establish the Voices of the Ancestors, a county wide Oral History Project. This year Doug has begun working with the Honor Day Foundation, an organization which arose from the heart and vision of Native North American Indian women to recognize the many contributions made by Native American Indians. Having been awakened in the traditional way, Honor Day now belongs to the indigenous roots of all people. ,www.honorday.org.
Doug continues to promote the social, cultural, and performance aspects of storytelling through the teaching of workshops in the community. He has been an Affiliated Faculty member at Western Washington University where he is teaching classes in the uses of narrative in the Human Services professions and has taught classes in Oral Narrative in History, Culture, and Society.
Doug’s is recognized as a World Folklorist. His repertoire includes hundreds of stories from cultures around the world. His uses of imagery, voice, and music have made his performances memorable to children and adults alike. It is said that wisdom is gained through the sharing of experience and experience is shared through our stories. Doug believes that there is nothing more potent to bring people together than a good story well shared.
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What is Doug Up To?
At 12:32pm on May 3rd, 2008, Doug Banner said…
The Voices of the Ancestors Oral History Project just complete the Ninth concert "Connecting to the Land" stories of the early pioneer farmers of Whatcom County for the Whatcom Historical Society a group dedicated to the preservation of Historical Sites in Whatcom County, Washington. From this concert we will be moving to two more collection projects.
One for the 100 year anniversary of a local School District and another for the 125 year anniversary of the local Episcopal Church in Bellingham.
We continue to offer free monthly concerts which have now moved to the main branch of the city library in Bellingham. We are now in our 5th year of this public outreach concert series. The collaboration with the Library system has been a great addition to our community support network.
I am continuing to keep my connections to China alive and well and plan on going back in September.
On the personal front I am beginning to work more in the area of documentary film making. One team just finished the shooting of one film on cultural transformations. A second team has begun work on a film about the efforts of a local Native American group to establish a national holiday to recognize the contributions of native wisdom and Indigenous peoples to or country. For more information see: www.honorday.org
So that's Doug Banner in a nut shell. Add to this that my wife Lyn and I are raising our now 4 and 1/2 year old granddaughter an it paints a pretty exciting life.
I have heard said that the Great Spirit put us on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. At this rate I am bound for immortality.
Best wishes to you all.
The Voices of the Ancestors Oral History Project just complete the Ninth concert "Connecting to the Land" stories of the early pioneer farmers of Whatcom County for the Whatcom Historical Society a group dedicated to the preservation of Historical Sites in Whatcom County, Washington. From this concert we will be moving to two more collection projects.
One for the 100 year anniversary of a local School District and another for the 125 year anniversary of the local Episcopal Church in Bellingham.
We continue to offer free monthly concerts which have now moved to the main branch of the city library in Bellingham. We are now in our 5th year of this public outreach concert series. The collaboration with the Library system has been a great addition to our community support network.
I am continuing to keep my connections to China alive and well and plan on going back in September.
On the personal front I am beginning to work more in the area of documentary film making. One team just finished the shooting of one film on cultural transformations. A second team has begun work on a film about the efforts of a local Native American group to establish a national holiday to recognize the contributions of native wisdom and Indigenous peoples to or country. For more information see: www.honorday.org
So that's Doug Banner in a nut shell. Add to this that my wife Lyn and I are raising our now 4 and 1/2 year old granddaughter an it paints a pretty exciting life.
I have heard said that the Great Spirit put us on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. At this rate I am bound for immortality.
Best wishes to you all.
Doug Banner's Blog
When your art is "working"
I am currently working on a project here in Bellingham, Washington, and I am seeking feedback to the following question:
"What elements are present when artists reach a point where their art is "working," that is, when their art reaches a state of flow?
Thanks,
Doug Banner
"What elements are present when artists reach a point where their art is "working," that is, when their art reaches a state of flow?
Thanks,
Doug Banner
Posted on May 20, 2009 at 6:37pm — 3 Comments
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Thanks for your quick reply. Yes, I would tell it in third person. I don't have any real plans to tell it in a formal setting but I just thought in case there was an opportunity I should ask you. Have you ever written it down? How do you spell Vava?
We have an exciting fall of storytelling planned in Calgary. We will be celebrating Samhain with celtic stories in October. I will be touring around Alberta that month to share stories from my Scandinavian Heritage. We would be happy to have you come and visit us here some day.
We offer a retreat in early May. You would be welcome to join us in May of 2010 as a participant and I wonder if next year 2011 you might like to facilitate a workshop? Do you do that sort of thing?
You can look at our TALES website (google TALESstorytelling)to get an idea of what our retreats are like. We haven't got the details for 2010 posted yet but I think there is still info from 2009. I should check! Jan Andrews and her partner Jennifer Cayley will be doing some work on performance with us.
Karen
I very much enjoyed meeting you too.
I'm so glad that you contacted me for I have been thinking about you. I loved the story that you told at the Victoria conference, the tale of your Vava (sp?) so much that I have been telling it to friends and family. I hope that you don't mind my passing it along. It is a beautiful tale of love and loyalty. Would you be able to give me permission to tell the story in a more formal setting such as a story circle or a cafe?
Best wishes,
Karen
Dan
Great to hear from you. What a festival, the stories, the songs, the people, a pleasure for all. If you get a chance, please send me the program outline for your university courses. And I'd really like to talk to you more about performing in Bellingham. Also, send me some info about your China event. Are you planning a 2010 or 2011 tour? If so, let me know and I'll see if yours is a better choice than the People to People Program. Another thing, do you know any young tellers who wouldn't mind giving me a few pointers as to how to encourage more people their age to get involved in storytelling?
all the best, and please keep in touch.
max
How in the world are you? Hope you love this site as much as I do. Great people... good discussions and lots of groups and forums to talk about what you think is important.
I like your ideas of builder, leader, innovator living. I am going to like getting to know you better. Jump in the water is fine.
Buck