By Josie Fliger Josie, who attended the 2022 Florida Storytelling Festival, is president/CEO of Elder Care Services, Inc., Leon County’s lead aging services non-profit. To live a great story is to be open to new experiences, places, and friendships. I was lucky enough to find all three of those things at my first visit to […]
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Jalea told a story about when she was seven years old and she was allowed to pump gas for the very first time. Oh, she was excited, feeling like a grown-up at the service station gas pump. She said she was nervous; Her hands were sweating when she got distracted. Gasoline went everywhere. On the
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The Florida Storytelling Festival was a success again this year!!! We braved the coldest weekend in four years to share our stories at the 38th annual Florida Storytelling Festival in Mt. Dora on the last weekend in January. Musician/storyteller Josh Goforth entertained with his tales and music of the Appalachia. Cooper Braun took us into
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Down by The Lakeside Again Florida Storytelling Festival Returns After a year when just about every storytelling session was virtual, the Florida Storytelling Festival returns in January 2022 with live and in-person events at Mt. Dora’s historic Lakeside Inn. Once again storytellers and fans of storytelling will gather under the big tent on the shore
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Holiday Greetings: We are blessed with two holiday stories filled with memories from two of our seasoned Florida tellers: Katie Green, who lives in Dunedin, and Cheryl Floyd, who lives in Deland: Making Memories By Cheryl Floyd “With the holidays coming, I was thinking of my childhood and all of these wonderful memories came flooding
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THE ORLANDO STORY CLUB: STILL GOING STRONG As we slowly emerge from the COVID days of virtual storytelling, this month’s blog checks in with the long-running Orlando Story Club which held an in-person November slam on the 3rd and is gearing up for the year-end “Slam Championship” on Dec. 8. Launched in 2014, the Orlando
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Time for Ghost Stories by Walt Belcher Cold rushes of air. Faces peeking out of darkened windows. Objects falling, unexplained, to the floor. Strange “orbs” of light, either seen with the naked eye or in photos. And that mysterious, unexpected feeling that sends chills up the spine.
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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
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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
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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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