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Hey everyone. Just now had time to join. I've been looking around the site and at comments et al. Hmmm . . .my Celtic stories are told in the bardic style, "The Ulaid," stories from "The Mabinogion," original stories based on characters from the "Le…
A place for sharing and discussing Celtic stories.
True true, storytelling is subversive; I think that's why I love it. I'm from Appalachian culture and you're right, we don't distinguish age groups. My situation is that our local guild only seems to want cutesy-wutsey stories [read: Celtic music is…
Tejas Storytelling Conference at St. Edwards University
July 24, 2009 at 7pm to July 26, 2009 at 1pm
July 24-26, 2009: KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD!
Tejas Storytelling Association is doing it's part to live up to Austin's popular bumper sticker mandate to KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD by swarming the lone star state's capital with...who else? US! We're counting on contr…
Just joined. Sounds really coooooollll -donchno. Anyway - just a brief personal plug. I'm presented 2 performance lectures - "Soviet Folklore, Socialist Realism, and the Workers' Paradise" and "With Your Abundance of Wealthe and Treasure: Stories fr…
This group is for tellers who have performed, will perform, are considering performing or attending or are willing to help tellers who attend or perform at fringe festivals. We can post openings, information or offer or ask for help.
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- About Me:
- Pro teller for some 35+ years. I "specialize" in the ancient epics and sagas. My passion is epic telling in the different styles which I bring to high school, university-level, and adult audiences. I do not tell for children as they already have tellers - adults need tellers. Several of my performances have been award winninng (though locally). Have told on NPR, 3 continents, in places as varied as a cathedral to an oversized drainage pipe. As an original founder of Tellers2, I especially enjoy interweaving folklore and ancient tales into lectures at the university level. The Tellers2 mission is to explore storytelling as a pedagogical tool, thereby showcasing the power and possibility of the oral tradition - particularly in secondary school and higher education. And let us not forget the sheer joy and entertainment also.
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Storytelling in Higher Education: Performance-Lecture
As an academic storyteller (personal term for a teller in higher ed) I have found that the students who hear me as a guest performance-lecturer are seemingly "starved" for stories, i.e, I still have students from several semesters past who approach me on campus to ask when I'm telling again, what classes(s) do I teach [which I can't teach due to my employment classification], where does the local guild meet, etc. etc.
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- At 6:46pm on August 31, 2009,
Lorene McHutcheon Stilwell said…
- I'm always willing to tell! And Telebration last year was a personal sucess for me cause I told Finn's Head, which is now on it's way to being a Children's book. I have a mad idea about doing the entire Irishi mythic cycle as an ongoing nighttime soup opera called "Bedtime Stories for Adults". I'm not an epic teller though, my mind goes to down-hame back kitchen gossip about Cucchulainn, Maeve, Angus and all the others. It would be great to do the the same tale in the two contrasting styles.
Catch ya later silverchin
- At 8:42pm on August 30, 2009,
Lorene McHutcheon Stilwell said…
- Hey silverchin, How are you doing - haven't seen you in a while. Only keeping up with some of your antics through Lucinda. I liked what you said about storytelling for adults and how the guild only wants cutsy wutsy. I have a very dark story about the Cathebova - crow goddess of battle, but have qualms about trying it out for the guild. I think I'll do it anyway. still figuring out this network though
- At 12:39am on April 3, 2009,
Steve Evans said…
- Greetings! I hope you find Professional Storyteller useful and informative. I sure do! Won't you consider participating in the "Applied Storytelling: the Power of Story" group? We would love to have you! Best wishes. STEVE
- At 3:21pm on March 17, 2009,
Loren Niemi said… - Wow, I have never heard any of those TOLD and will have to find an occasion to hear one of them trip off your tongue. I am going to be in Texas to work with the Tejas Board of Directors in June but I don't think there is much extra time on that weekend to meet you but....yes, somewhere along the line.
- At 12:51pm on March 14, 2009,
Tom Taylor said… - Silverchin, Welcome!
I've never yet encountered a teller who held forth before an oversized drainage pipe . . . now THAT is impressive! I'd love to learn the story of its coming about, and hear how it all came out (so to speak).
I used to practice sermons before a herd of cattle in Bell County, but an oversized drainage pipe . . . never crossed my mind.
We're just an hour up the road from you, so I hope our paths cross somewhere along the storytelling trail ere too long.
This is a remarkable site, and I trust you will soon learn to love it, as so many of us do. Meantime, continued success in your telling. I look forward to seeing/hearing/meeting you.
Best,
Tom T
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