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| New From Afar Alfred Stevens, 1860 |
I hope you find something interesting to read, and perhaps some new tidbits to add to your storytelling.
“Farming in Kilconnell
for the last 40 years, Noone has gained attention for his supposed connection
to members of what some may believe to just be mythology… “I have the porthole
to the fairy world, where the blackthorn meets the whitethorn.”
https://tinyurl.com/2p96bd9h
A Marrakech Tale
“Hajj Ahmed Ezzarghani has been
telling stories for over five decades. Now in his 70s, the master storyteller
has retired from the chaos of Marrakech’s famous square, Jemaa el-Fna. He finds
new purpose in teaching young apprentices the skills of the ancient art form.”
There is also a very interesting twenty-five-minute video of Hajj teaching his
apprentices and their first public performance in the square.
https://tinyurl.com/ycx3hvad
African-American folklore inspires
meeting of the minds
Henry
Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar, Harvard scholars have co-authored “The
Annotated African American Folktales,” that “illuminates and celebrates a
narrative spirit both intimate and expansive…” The Harvard Gazette offers this
wonderful article, a conversation with Gates and Tatar as they explain how
storytelling motifs are woven through many cultures and the important messages
they convey.
https://tinyurl.com/bdh2bh33
Ancient Aboriginal Storytelling
Turns Digital
“The kids
from Western Australia's remote Pilbara region have amassed quite a body of work.
For the past 10 years they've been working hard, spending hundreds of hours in
a digital lab in Roebourne, or Ieramugadu. They've been making music, films, podcasts,
and even an award-winning interactive digital comic. Now they've created a
learning platform, to share their stories with primary school students and
teachers around Australia.”
https://tinyurl.com/ycksv462
Animation-led storytelling drives bold vision for new
Scotch whisky brand Fable
“The
storytelling part is very important to us. I think the Scottish and Irish are
renowned as great storytellers, and we wanted to bring a piece of that to the
whisky market. We have these great remote parts of Scotland, and we chose a
place called Clanyard Bay, which is on the Southwest corner of the country, to
be the central element in our story. In summary we are matching great tasting
whisky with an interesting and mythical story about this part of the world.”
https://tinyurl.com/4t2vmapb
Can Storytelling
Catalyze Culture Change
“Storytelling has always
been a way to transmit culture. Why else would our ancestors gather around a
fire to tell stories, to pass down traditions, to impart knowledge to younger
generations? But what if we could use stories to drive culture change by
shifting the UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) mindset from one that prioritizes hierarchy
to one that places just as much value in the organization’s diverse workforce?
A team at UNHCR believes that one way to do that may be to let staff at every
level tell their own stories.”
https://tinyurl.com/mvm5jebx
Carlsbad company offering scary stories
on the beach
“A
Carlsbad-based company, Beach Genie, which provides customers with a
pampered beach day experience, is now offering year-round scary storytelling events on the beach in time for the Halloween season…The Walkers partnered with
professional storyteller Marilyn McPhie, the president of the Storytellers
of San Diego and Pacific Region Director for the National Storytelling Network,
in the hopes of elevating beachgoers’ experience…In
preparation for Christmas, the company has Santa Claus join a holiday bonfire
party on the beach for 90 minutes before “flying back to the North Pole.”
https://tinyurl.com/2p858src
Choctaw Cultural Center to open this week
“Throughout the Cultural Center – indoors and outdoors – Choctaw tribal
members have the opportunity to teach, learn and actively participate in the
Choctaw culture. Activities like gathering for special presentations and
Choctaw films, participating in the Choctaw tradition of oral storytelling or
playing in a demonstration stickball game, all help keep the Choctaw spirit
alive.”
https://tinyurl.com/2p94wsee
Eco Warriors wins Youth4Nature Award in environmental awareness through
storytelling
“Leadership of the group used the power of words carefully crafted to
arouse interest and sustain suspense as they told childhood stories. It is a
highly participatory exercise which ensures that members who are predominantly
students interact with the storyteller throughout the process.”
https://tinyurl.com/ycksn26k
The Folktale
Resurgence
“When places and features of the landscape are tied to old stories,
knowing and remembering those old stories as we walk through the land can weave
us into its history, connecting us to the ancestral voices, helping to
establish enduring bonds between individuals and the natural world around them
– whether that be animals, plants, or features like mountains and rocks. They
connect us to land and show us how to engage with it in a deeper way.”
https://tinyurl.com/2p8szknm
Forgotten Women of Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were
real people, not mythical figures… Contrary to what many readers assumed, the
brothers did not write the tales. The tales were a group effort that required
communal scholarship and work by multiple contributors…more than half the tales
had a woman’s hand in them. The women served as fairy tale “think tanks.”
https://tinyurl.com/2p88xfk9
How Indigenous Oral Tradition Is Guiding
Archaeology and Uncovering Climate History in Alaska
In south-central Alaska a
chief named Łtaxda’x (EL-tax-da) once owned “a dish hewn from the horn of a
giant moose.” When he died, his brothers fought over this ceremonial platter of
the Raven clan. As the legend continues, one of the brothers who lost the
battle led some of the people away from their ancestral home. Aron Crowell,
director of the Alaska division of the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center,
conducted scientific research revealing “that the migration story of the
Tlingit ancestors is essentially true.”
https://tinyurl.com/3mk2udtm
How Nupur Aggarwal, the storyteller, 'storifies'
lessons to make them so much more fun
“Nupur,
who has been associated with Bengaluru-based Storywallahs, an organisation that
has made telling stories their business…What we essentially do is storify
concepts from the curriculum and then handhold them through the process of
consistently using the technique of storytelling in the classroom,"
https://tinyurl.com/2p98nkb5
How Stories Connect And Persuade Us: Unleashing the Brain Power of Narrative
“When
you listen to a story, whatever your age, you're transported mentally to
another time and place.” Research has shown that while listening to a has
proven that A growing body of brain science offers even more insight into
what's behind these experiences.”
https://tinyurl.com/yc4e6m3y
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