Category Archives: Storytelling: Other

The Department of History of Art and Architecture of University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Film Studies Department announces the 2008 edition of its graduate student symposium. The topic of the forthcoming event is “Storytelling: Playful Interactions and Spaces of Imagination in Contemporary … Continue reading →

The Be the Change! Share the Story! school video contest invites student teams to choose and execute a social or environmental project of their choice and document their progress in a couple of short videos that will be uploaded on Quantum Shift TV between September 2007 and March 2008. An … Continue reading →

During a trip to San Francisco, my husband and I were walking down a terraced hill near Coit Tower when a woman came up to us and said, “Have you seen the wild parrots?” This question had the flavor of a bit of spy code as though she had said, … Continue reading →

The Story of Stuff tells the story of “the material economy.” The story part is a bit overshadowed by preachiness, but the originator, Annie Leonard, delivers an important environmental message. From The Story of Stuff Web site: From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our … Continue reading →

I like collecting products related to storytelling because I think they illustrate the growing prominence of story in our lives and tend to focus on an aspect of storytelling I’ve become increasingly interested in — storytelling for individual growth, self-actualization, and creating a better future. Another one I spotted while … Continue reading →

Frankly, I detest Halloween. Other than associating a few mildly bad memories with the holiday, I have no good reason to hate it. And when you come right down to it, Halloween is a storyteller’s paradise — all those scary ghost stories and horror flicks. And think of the stories … Continue reading →

Thanks to Stephanie West Allen’s posting on the Working Stories list, I learned of what may just be the ultimate example of storytelling stealth in the classroom. In fact, the narrative is so blatant that it’s not really stealthy at all. The students are immersed in the narrative from Day … Continue reading →

I am struck by how we as humans will tend to make up stories about anything we see that’s the slightest bit unusual (at least I do). While riding my bike one afternoon, for example, I saw a woman walking by the side of the road. Several hundred feet behind … Continue reading →

My 19-year-old son was stranded in downtown Orlando, FL, and ended up getting mugged (including his cell phone), sleeping in a parking garage, and walking a portion of the 40-mile trip home. His story actually began on Oct. 12, but it was appropriately probably Friday the 13th when things turned … Continue reading →

Found this wonderful quote on one of the articles on the Avalon Web site (see preceding entry): “Stories are alchemy. They are medicine, healing, mystery, paradox, power, and many other things, allowing us to feel, taste, touch, hear and see the stories around us. They are chaos, order, complexity. Stories … Continue reading →