The Alabama Storytelling Association will meet at the Hampton Inn in Selma, Al. Friday night and Saturday night the Tale Tellin festival will be taking place in Selma, featuring Bill Harley, Tersi Bendiburg and Kathyrn Tucker Windham. Bill Harley and Tersi Bendiburg will conduct workshops on Saturday at our state conference. You are all welcome to participate. SAVE THE DATE!!!
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Added by Bruce Walker on July 5, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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What Storytelling is and is not
First of all storytelling is not stand-up comedy. Stand-up comedy is a quick set-up and punch line with an anticipation of a laugh. Storytelling may have elements of comedy, but its purpose is to develop a plot line and have interaction with characters developed to a conclusion. The comedy is not the reason for the story.
Storytelling is not a narrative, a recitation of some thing memorized. Storytelling is the remembering and telling of a particular thing that…
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Added by Bruce Walker on February 15, 2009 at 6:21pm —
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Our Feb. 7th meeting was a great success. Bylaws were passed, a board elected, and officers installed. We are now on to our task of promoting storytelling in Alabama.
President-Bruce Walker
President Elect-Pamula Spivey
Treasurer-Millie Jackson
Secretary- Ashley Hulsey
Membership Sectretary-Joseph Trimble
Note how many of the officers also belong to Professional Storyteller!!
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Added by Bruce Walker on February 11, 2009 at 7:32am —
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On Feb. 7th the organizational meeting of the Alabama Storytelling Association will be held at the First United Methodist Church in Clanton, Al., beginning at 10:00 AM. Anyone interested in storytelling in Al is invited to come.
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Added by Bruce Walker on January 28, 2009 at 9:15pm —
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When I decided to do this project, I started out assimilating stories I wanted to use. After a few false starts I realized I needed help to make this CD a success. I had e-mailed and talked with Buck several times about a story I was working on. He did a good job of "coaching" me for a particular event for which I was doing the story. I didn't know that Buck produced storytellig CDs, when I read the back cover of "Three Penny Moma" I realized he had talent as a producer, so I called him and here…
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Added by Bruce Walker on October 30, 2008 at 7:56am —
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Sunday, September 14th, a great group of ALabama Storytellers met to discuss the organizing of a statewide group and we are off to a great start!! We choose an interim board to put the nuts and bolts of our group together. If you are an Alabama storyteller or interested in Alabama storytelling let me know!!
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Added by Bruce Walker on September 15, 2008 at 4:53pm —
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I find that if I write out my story and then mark it according to where I want the scenes of action to change, it allows me to be spontaneous and not forget my place of action in the story as I ad ib.
So what I have is my key visuals in mind. I would like to know how others keep their story in place in their mind as they tell it.
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Added by Bruce Walker on September 12, 2008 at 1:15pm —
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Today I am working on stories that I am recording for my storytelling CD project. Writting out stories gives me a storyboard view and helps me to transition images in the performance of them. How many of you completely write out your stories before telling or learning them?
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Added by Bruce Walker on September 1, 2008 at 12:22pm —
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Just wanted everyone to know that one of the founders of the modern storytelling movement passed away yesterday in TN after a short illness. Please remember all of his family in prayer tonight.
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Added by Bruce Walker on August 17, 2008 at 5:50pm —
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I am posting this in my blog for Alabama-based storytellers
I am interested in helping start an Alabama Storytellers Association. I see it as a get together of active story tellers that would meet several times a year. It would be an organization that would be the "Face" of storytellers in Alabama to the Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, etc. Our main thrust would be to promote storytelling as an art form. Would you be interested in being a part of such an endeavor?
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Added by Bruce Walker on August 17, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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My thoughts:
Jim May and Steve Henegar's workshops were very well presented. I enjoyed meeting a lot of you from this forum. IMHO, I would like to see a specific session designed for networking with promoters and various vendors i.e. CD producers, book publishers, etc.
I appreciate the hard work the NSN staff put in to bringing this conference together. Karin Hensley seemed to be everywhere making sure things were going smoothly.
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Added by Bruce Walker on August 10, 2008 at 7:09pm —
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As with most of you, summer has been very busy!! My new web site is finally up, www.brucestoryteller.com
check it out and let me know what I need to do to tweakit!! I am working on my CD and hope to have it ready by September. I am looking forward to meeting many of you whom I have met through Professional Storytelling in Gatlinburg in a few weeks. Oh, and I have kept up my regular schedule of appearances through all of this.
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Added by Bruce Walker on July 24, 2008 at 11:09pm —
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I have found the most enjoyable way for me to practice is to hit the trail system at our local state park. Hiking trails named Mt. Mist, Logan's Point and Sinks, can really put you in the mood for old Civil War tales and historical sketches, not to mention the sheer awe…
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Added by Bruce Walker on April 30, 2008 at 7:01pm —
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Coffee shops seem to have discovered storytelling. I will be telling agian this Friday at a coffee shop venue. Being new to storytelling, does any of the "expereinced tellers" have experience on working coffee shops? The last 3 tellings I have done in a coffee shop have been received quite well, (I've been invited back and to new venues as well) Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Added by Bruce Walker on April 27, 2008 at 3:12pm —
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Hope to see many of you there, it seems our group here at professional storytelling wil be well represented. I would love to meet you and will be attending other tellers showcases.
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Added by Bruce Walker on April 23, 2008 at 11:57am —
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Picture of me and Doc McConnell, one of the founders of the modern storytelling movement. This is the first time I had heard him tell. Doc McConnell was gracious and I throughly enjoyed his telling of the ghost story about the little girl on the side of the road. Akiba Sh…
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Added by Bruce Walker on April 11, 2008 at 11:00pm —
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Telling at a Christmas Party this past year. I am writing either a brilliant book or blatherings by an idiot, at this point I don't know which. I am taking all of the discarded material I have researched through time and using it to write a "stream of consciousness" book. Just thought y…
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Added by Bruce Walker on April 8, 2008 at 11:20pm —
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I am telling a historical story about the founding of our city (1804) Huntsville Alabama. I tell this story through the eyes of two men who helped found our town. One is a poor frontiersman and the other is a Virginia Planter with roots of royalty leading back to England. Leroy Po…
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Added by Bruce Walker on April 2, 2008 at 9:41pm —
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When you perform at story telling festivals or events advertized as a story telling event, the crowd comes expecting that type of experience. But, when you work a coffe shop, pub, bistro, etc. you have an audience that you have to quickly read and win over. You walk a fine line…
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Added by Bruce Walker on March 29, 2008 at 9:47pm —
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This is how I roll. Last week-end I was in the Sipsey Wilderness, telling stories around a campfire, to a group of horse lovers. This picture was taken at the campground nestled in 38,000 acres of old growth forest in N. Alabama.
Well today, I am wearting two hats, I run a business,(…
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Added by Bruce Walker on March 27, 2008 at 10:03am —
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