Stor e Telling: August September 2014: Festival Revivals

Chaharshanbe Suri

Fire Jumping Festival

Persian painting from the Safavid Era.

The focus of this issue was restyling festivals and festival revivals. I’ve gathered a few l resources from the USA and beyond. While these sites focus on a variety of festivals, music, cultural arts, and theater, the information and advice will be useful to storytelling festival producers as well.

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

The Dog and the Pig – India
http://www.pitara.com/fiction-for-kids/folktales/the-dog-and-the-pig/

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

The Golden Beetle or Why Dog Hates Cat – China
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

The Sheep, the Shepherd and the Dog – Fable
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

Why Dogs Sniff Tails - Iroquois
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- H
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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