After our big cross-country move, I’m still playing catch-up — in a very big way — in curating story news and conducting synthesis and analysis. Here are a few items of interest that have popped up in recent weeks: Seth Kahan, one of the leaders on the Washington, DC, storytelling … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling: Other
The Ancient Tradition of the Story Gourd
Do you know about the ancient, culturally embedded tradition of the story gourd? The gourd with a story etched around the surface … with the carved grid on the back … with the hinged door that opens to reveal a picture related to the story? You’ve never heard of the … Continue reading
What Is Storytelling Without Relationships?
A couple of recent pieces have examined the role of relationships and connections in storytelling. In a scholarly piece called Different Ways of Remembering: the Example of Storytelling, Mark Oppenneer writes: The telling of a story not only suggests the physical presence of a storyteller and an audience, but the … Continue reading
Here’s Where to Review the Week in Storytelling
One of my newest discoveries, Gregg Morris (pictured, from his Twitter profile), produces a weekly feature in his What’s Your Story? blog called The Week in Storytelling. I freely admit that I am seduced by the fact that Gregg cites a number of entries from A Storied Career and calls … Continue reading
Tellers: How Do You Organize Your Stories?
Reader Stephanie Jones asked me a question I couldn’t answer but readers who are oral-performance storytellers perhaps can: Do you know of any web tools that would enable a storyteller to keep a log of the stories they tell, along with notes about the stories, sources, places they’ve told, etc.? … Continue reading
Things That Are NOT Stories
Recently, some of my favorite story practitioners have been registering protests over manifestations of “story” that they consider to be too loosely characterized or defined. I’ve written a number of times (most recently here) about the six-word stories that are the stock in trade at SMITH Magazine and have caught … Continue reading
Three Meaty Storytelling Goodies — Yours Free for the Asking
I continue to marvel at the generosity of the storytelling community. Storytelling fans can find so many wonderful freebies out there. Here are three I’ve come across recently. [Thanks to Thaler Pekar for alerting me to this one.] Stephanie Tolan has a new Web site, StoryHealer.com, where she’s offering a … Continue reading
User-Experience Storytelling Article Provides Superb Primer
User-experience (UX) storytelling was one of the storytelling applications that was new to me in 2009. I interviewed Whitney Quesenbery (who is writing a book on the subject) and wrote about Cindy Chastain. Now, along comes Francisco Inchauste, who has published a wonderfully written and illustrated blog entry that not … Continue reading
Story Luminaries Announce New Offerings
Yesterday’s mail brought news from three well-known names in applied storytelling: Thaler Pekar in partnership with Svend-Erik Engh and Michael Margolis. And, wow, this year’s Washington, DC, storytelling weekend is starting even earlier — and in New York City! Kind of the opposite of previewing a show on the road … Continue reading
It’s National Storytelling Week in England
This is the first year I learned of England’s National Storytelling Week (this year, Jan. 30 to Feb. 6), although the event is now in its 10th year. The material about the week at the Society for Storytelling site suggests the week mostly focuses on oral storytelling to and for … Continue reading