The Upside of Zoom
How I Learned to Love Zoom during COVID By Walt Belcher Nothing beats a live audience when you are telling a story. Personal group interaction has been missing during this pandemic. We miss those live, in-person storytelling …
A Storyteller’s Thoughts on Storytelling
What to do When the Well Runs Dry By Pat Nease I was a writer before I was a storyteller, and cannot remember ever hitting a blank wall, of having no spark, no festering ideas waiting to be developed, no urge to create. I loved assembling the frame, linking the right words together, deliberating …
Tale Tellers of St. Augustine Surviving and Thriving in the Year of COVID
The Tale Tellers of St. Augustine Surviving and Thriving in the Year of COVID by Debra Weller, President Can a storytelling guild exist for twenty-eight years? Yes, it can! The Tale Tellers of St. Augustine is a performing guild of talented storytellers, poets and actors who devote themselves to storytelling …
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How to Get Others Involved in Storytelling
Community Storytelling Is My Passion By Caren S. Neile, Ph.D. My father, my stepbrother and I were involved in community theater down in Fort Lauderdale. The lead actress had so many lines that she was always forgetting them. So you would be in the dressing room, which was upstairs and down the hall …
Isolation, Incubation
Isolation, Incubation© by Susan O’Hara Isolation? Incubation? Whatever Covid-19 has done to restrict us, we must not, as artists, let it stop us, control us or limit our creative natures. For all of time, human beings have created even- during war, famine, or when imprisoned. Adversity has been a great generator of creativity. Our …
Storytelling in the Schools: How to Make Study Guides
Storytelling in the Schools: How to Make Study Guides ©Katie Adams When I was a child, I loved to act out scenes and stories and I always had big emotional reactions to events …
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Rediscovering Our Value
Rediscovering Our Value ©Kaye Byrnes 2020 Where were you in March, when COVID-19 swept away our storytelling venues? Did you have programs scheduled in schools, libraries, care and senior centers, festivals? Over the course of three days I was flooded with emails and phone calls, “I’m so sorry but…” Cancelled, cancelled, cancelled. …
Hamilton and Me
Hamilton and Me ©2020 Linda Gorham ♫ And I’m not throwing away my shot! ♫ Dear Storytellers, You could call me obsessed. Not clinically. Not dangerously. Obsessed in a good way – at least I hope.I am obsessed with the storytelling concepts showcased in the …
Encounters Make the Stories
by Josh Campbell I went golfing today. I pulled up to my local municipal 9-hole course located in Overton Park not too far from my home in Memphis, Tn. As I unloaded my bag of clubs to begin one of my usual four rounds of golf a year, I was approached by the course …