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FALLING INTO THE NEST (the 2018 Sharing the Fire Conference)
©2018 Michele Carlo In 2003 I discovered a wonderful performing art form called storytelling at a Moth story slam. Back then the Moth wasn’t the international…
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Stories On Purpose: Connection in a Time of Fragmentation
By Linda Schuyler Ford It started with Sandy Hook. I had friends with children at that school. Besides, the cluster of villages and small towns around Danbury, Connecticut – Bethel, Brookfield, New Fairfield, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield-form the…
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Telling My Story
© Meghann Perry, 2018 STF Presenter I step up to the podium, clutching my tattered papers in my shaking hands, sweating inside my suddenly too-tight shirt. I don’t know how to do this! But the…
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Not Quite the Way I Pictured It
©2018 by Madelyn Folino, 2018 STF Presenter I had been searching for the lost photo for decades. It would settle a simple argument with my children, skeptics all, that once upon a time, I really…
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Beyond the Traditional Tale
“Once Upon a Time,” “Mukashi, Mukashi,” “It was or it was not,” “Si lo creo, o no,” are words that bring us to the other side of the Looking Glass. These beginnings open doors…
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A Peek at Busking ~ Tips for Performance
© by Papa Joe Gaudet, 2018 STF Presenter There are a lot of storytelling venues that follow the general format of the street performance. Examples include larger festivals like First Nights and Old Home Days,…
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It’s Your Story – Tell It!
© Rona Leventhal, 2018 STF Presenter Thanks to venues like The Moth, Mass Mouth and other “story Slam” series, even our regional and national conferences, personal storytelling has moved like a wave across the storytelling…
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Voice as Instrument: Rhythm, Pattern and Music in Storytelling
© Heather Forest, STF Presenter Since early childhood, I have always enjoyed playing my favorite instrument, the voice. My kindergarten teacher tactfully wrote home that my impromptu and frequent outbursts of song were disruptive to…
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Getting “Them” To Listen
© Mark Binder, 2018 STF Presenter There is a moment in storytelling when the audience leans in and every word and gesture is gold. And then there are the times when you’re telling stories to a cinderblock wall. These…
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Authentic Movement while Storytelling
©Linda Marchisio, 2018 Sharing the Fire Presenter You don’t have to be a dancer to add movement to your storytelling. Body language is a natural form of communication. We use it every day in our…
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