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Reflections on Primary Sources
Arnie Pritchard © 2018 Last Veterans’ Day our church’s congregation was invited to bring in mementos of our own or family members‘ military service to display during coffee hour. I brought in several items,…
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Be Loud, Be Loud – But Not Too Loud
Simon Brooks © 2018 This autumn (September 2018) I watched a non-storytelling performer do his act. He had a portable system and was thrilled with it. However, out in the audience…
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Food Stories
Contributed by Susi Shaeffer Ormond Beach, FL. One day I noticed the majority of the tales I was telling had something to do with food….
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The Birthing of the Bridgeport PechaKucha
by Nina Lesiga and Bill Derry © 2018 On May 9th, 2018, at the historic PT Barnum Museum, a new story village was born. It…
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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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