Editorial - Brian Hetherington
They came from Away: report from the Halifax Conference, June 21-25, 2006
by Cindy Campbell and Linda Winham
If you only knew
by Ann Rothfells
[Storytelling experiences in rural schools]
It's all the fault of Adam
- a story from Barbara K. Walker's The Dancing Palm Tree and other Nigerian Folktales,
with commentary by Rodriquez
The Spoken Quilt - Why do we need long stories?
- by Kira Van Deusen
Liar's Oath [helpful hints on running a Liar's contest and "luring would be tellers from out
of the woodwork"]
- by Norm Walker
A Storytellers's Shelf; reviews of materials for storytellers
- by Mary-Eileen McClear. Reviewed in this issue
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Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom by Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss
- In God Knows Where: Marie Anne in Story & Song, CD
by Ruth Stewart Verger with music by Charlie Sohmer and Chris MacLean
Tales of a Travelling Storyteller [Algonquin Park, Australia, Whitehorse, Belgium and Winnipeg]
- by Carol-Leigh Wehking
Story Slam! Story Slam dares writing nation to act! Put your words where your mouth is.
- by John Dixon |
From The Spoken Quilt by Kira Van Deusen
Hearing and telling long stories is deeply enriching and even life-changing. It develops community sense,
this working together and living in the story world. It enriches our understanding of other cultures from the
inside out. Quality of telling is vitally important, and the experience helps us to grow as tellers and listeners.
We seem to think that both tellers and listeners need to be introduced to storytelling through short stories.
Recently people who have never heard storytelling before have listened to me tell a long story.
When I said, "Wow, you're jumping in at the deep end!" they replied, "I wouldn't have wanted anything shorter."
Why not give them storytelling at its most glorious, healing and thought-provoking?"
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