Chaharshanbe Suri
Fire Jumping Festival
Persian painting from the Safavid Era.
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15 Steps to Starting a Music Festival in
a Bad Economy – Useful
information and guidance on how to get a first year music festival off the
ground.
http://www.jpmusicfestival.com/resources/15-steps-to-a-local-music-festival.pdf
Department of Cultural Affairs: City of
Los Angeles
– This booklet offers information and suggestions include:
·
Festival
Sites
·
Timelines
·
Workplans
·
Public
and Community Relations
http://www.culturela.org/events/Festivals/festivalproducer/Festival_Handbook.pdf
Fáilte Ireland Festival and Events Best
Practice Guide – This guide is
chock-full of amazing advice on festival management, advertising, marketing
strategies, partnerships, press releases, sponsors, everything to make your
festival shine.
http://www.aoifeonline.com/uplds/best_practice_guide07.pdf
Trading Places: From Theatre Director to
Festival Producer – From
the Cultural Professionals Network this article in The Guardian offers insight
into switching roles and adapting skills to produce a festival.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2014/feb/13/trading-theatre-director-festival-producer
August 26 is National Dog Day. Below are some
stories to celebrate our canine friends.
Black Dog of Hanging Hills – USA
http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/the_black_dog_of_hanging_hills.html
http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/the_black_dog_of_hanging_hills.html
The Dog and the
Sparrow – Grimm
http://www.authorama.com/grimms-fairy-tales-8.html
The Giant Dog -
Eskimo
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/inu/eft/eft34.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/inu/eft/eft34.htm
The Golden
Beetle or Why Dog Hates Cat – China
http://www.worldoftales.com/Asian_folktales/Chinese_Folktale_1.html
http://www.worldoftales.com/Asian_folktales/Chinese_Folktale_1.html
The
Greyhound, The Serpent and The Child - Italy
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0178a.html#sevenmasters
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0178a.html#sevenmasters
The
Sheep, the Shepherd and the Dog – Fable
http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/67.htm
http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/67.htm
Spectre-Dogs – England
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/efft/efft65.htm
The Three Dogs - Germany
http://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Andrew_Lang_fairy_books/Green_fairy_books/The_Three_Dogs.htm
The
Tortoise, the Dog and the Farmer - Africa
http://allfolktales.com/wafrica/tortoise_dog_farmer.php
http://allfolktales.com/wafrica/tortoise_dog_farmer.php
Why
Dogs Sniff Tails - Iroquois
http://www.families.com/blog/animal-folktales-why-dogs-sniff-tails
http://www.families.com/blog/animal-folktales-why-dogs-sniff-tails
September
7 is Grandparents Day here in the United States. I offer you a previous blog
post with stories, curriculum and more to help celebrate this special day.
Storybug.net – Grandparents Add Richness
To Our Lives
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2012/08/grandparents-adding-richess-to-our-lives.html
Miscellaneous Sites
Chinese Tales – This is a
perfect choice since on section of this the site contains stories associated
with festivals. In addition, there stories of war, strategy, love, myths,
Buddhists tales and more. http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbtales.html
Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy, 1907. The book
is divided into seven parts and includes tales for children, short stories and
Russian folktales.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/tolstoy/23_tales.html
Motif-Index of
Folk-Literature by Stith Thompson. A classification of narrative elements in
Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and
Local Legends. These books are fully searchable. Now it is easier than ever to
research stories by theme.
Volume I: A - C
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000003465988;view=1up;seq=9
Volume 2: D - E
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000011802968;view=1up;seq=7
Volume 3: F- Hhttp://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000003465988;view=1up;seq=9
Volume 2: D - E
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000011802968;view=1up;seq=7
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.39000005917229;view=1up;seq=9
Volume 4: J - K
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4346825;view=1up;seq=7
Volume 5: L - Z
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4346826;view=1up;seq=17
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