Storytellers bring inspiration, history and humor to life at local libraries
A festival celebrating National Library Week. Libraries have long been the heart of oral storytelling initiatives.
Storyteller featured at art gallery Tuesday
“Never ask a Grizzly Bear to be your canoe partner.”
Sounds like pretty good advice to me! This is one of many stories John D’Arcy is likely to be telling.
Drowning in Overly Complicated Storytelling
A bit of a storytelling backlash. Time for the screenwriters to chill out?
Storyteller, artist, educator Li Min Mo coming to Atheneum
“I don’t like to do trickster tales. I try to do things that have a lot to do with kindness, compassion and sharing,” said Li Min, a Cambridge resident. “Kindness is important for the children to think of another person’s feelings. There is a level of compassion and sharing missing in a lot of storytelling that strives for the slapstick and cartooning. I want to give something deeper.”
Sean Stewart: Bard 5.0 The Evolution of Storytelling
A nice talk and presentation at TEDx.
3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
A call for papers. Definitely leading, bleeding edge technology.
Tellers entertain students, community on first day of Cape storytelling festival
Sounds like it’s a big success thus far. Continues through tomorrow at 3:30.
Crysis 2′s story bringing ‘massive emotional charge’
A nice article on story structure and gaming.
Google Plunges Knee-Deep Into Social Media With a UGC Search Stories Video Creator
Now you can build your own “Parisian Love” search stories.
Elements of Structure – Art of Storytelling
A good article from Melanie Anne Phillips. “I’d like to spend a little time illustrating the nature of and differences between story structure and storytelling, and provide some techniques for using this clear view of both to enhance the soundness of your story and your creative experience as well.”
DoggyCorps: a collective storytelling project
You just have to like a project like this!
“DoggyCorps is a collective storytelling project that seeks to document the voices of New York City dogs, as narrated by their owners, sharing stories of daily habits and challenges in an urban environment. DoggyCorps is an effort to further connect people and animals under an umbrella of shared experience.”
This is a very nice look at letter writing, typewriters and letter writers as storytellers. When was the last time you heard someone referred to as a Man or Woman of Letters?
Boston Public Library trustees vote to close four branches
What was I saying in the first item of this post? It looks like the Trustees of the Boston Public Library are being forced by budget shortages to cut part of that heart out.
“Bostonians and Massachusetts residents statewide have long taken pride in the Boston Public Library system. Opened to the public in 1854, it was the first public library to let people borrow books and other materials, a revolutionary concept at the time.
It was the first library to establish a space specifically designated for children, opening the Children’s Room in 1895 offering more than 3,000 books. It was also the first library to introduce the art of formal storytelling.”
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
“When it comes to comedy, everything is some kind of a story — amusing, outrageous, improbable, preposterous, relatable, ridiculous, unbelievable and, hopefully, just plain hilarious.”
“It’s fitting, then, that this year’s edition of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival should introduce a new feature, called Storytellers, that celebrates the art and the craft of the well-spun yarn.”
“I really like this format; I’m fascinated by it,” says veteran comedian/writer/actor Barry Kennedy, whose standup act is much more dependent on long lyrical tales of life in a strange world than it is on standard-issue setups and punchlines.
A lot of times, it’s what you leave out of a story and up to the imagination of the reader. A nice look at the latest short story volume of Peter Robinson.
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