LANES is now accepting proposals for the 2017 Sharing the Fire Conference - Voices Across Borders: Creating Connections.
Barriers, real or imagined, separate us by nationality, culture, race, age, sex, ability, language, finances, and more. This conference will explore the many ways stories can reach across borders, help people listen to others, and make powerful changes possible.
Thedeadline for submission of workshop and intensive proposals is midnight (EDT), Monday, October 10.
The deadline for submissions for concert performances is Midnight (EDT), Tuesday, October 25, 2016.
We are looking forward to another year of outstanding applications. Please direct any questions to Deb Roe at lanesdirector@gmail.com
Northlands Confabulation - Call for Proposals Confabulation! 2017
Posted Calls & Applications
POSTED: Workshop Proposals: due 10/20/16
POSTED: Call for Showcase Stories: due 10/31/16
POSTED: Call for Fringe Performance Submissions: due 11/20/16
New Voices Scholarship Apps: will be posted in November; due 1/20/17
The Northlands Storytelling Conference is seeking quality workshops and intensives for storytellers and those who use storytelling in their line of work, such as educators, librarians, healing, community, etc.
Members have noted that they are looking for sessions on Performance: emcee skills, physicality, mic use, etc.; Business: contracts, negotiation skills, bookkeeping, etc.; Permissions: copyright issues, author queries, editing/adapting copy, etc.; Education: applied storytelling, common core & STEM tie-ins, etc.; Technology: podcasting, website creation, eblast methods, etc.; Writing: story construction, publishing, etc. Also: Critique and/or coaching sessions; Panel presentations; Showcases of performance/dialogue. These are just a few ideas!
NSN - Conference & Call for proposals NSN National Storytelling Conference 2017
June 29-July 2, 2017
“All Our Voices: Stories of Immigration & Migration”
Kansas City Marriott, Country Club Plaza
Kansas City, Missouri
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
All Our Voices: Stories of Immigration and Migration
America is a country built on immigration and internal migration, both forced and voluntary. People relocate involuntarily via human hand or natural disaster; they move purposefully to find jobs, escape conflict, be near family, to improve quality of life. Currently in the U.S. and internationally, challenges continue to occur when immigration or migration stories collide with the stories of those previously established in a community.
Whether we are first, second, or tenth generation, how can we include everyone’s stories? What difficult stories need to be told? What stories can we share to maintain our individual traditions? What new stories can we formulate to further hope, peace and a place for all? Through both personal and traditional-cultural stories, let’s hear “All Our Voices” at the 2017 National Storytelling Conference.
Odyssey Storytelling in Tucson Thursday, October 6th The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress Street , Tucson
This curated Storytelling event in Tucson is in its 13th year! Six people are invited to tell ten minute, personal stories on a theme in front of an audience. The stories are not read or memorized, they are told from the life experiences and creativity of the teller
Theme: Natural
$8 Adults, $6 Students
Doors at 6:30, show at 7
Have you visited The Screening Room's fabulous concession stand? There's beer, wine, and excellent snacks. They'll even place an order for you with Empire Pizza and have it delivered to your seat. Who knew?
National Storytelling Festival - Live Streaming from Jonesborough Friday - October 7th - All Day Long
Can't make it to this year's National Storytelling Festival? We've got you covered.
On Friday, October 7, we're streaming video live from our Family Tent so you can
join us in Jonesborough from wherever you happen to be.
Throw a viewing party, check in on your phone during lunch, or binge watch the whole thing from the comfort of your couch! Want to convince others about the power of storytelling? Invite your family, colleagues, and students to tune in, too!
Join the celebration by using the hashtag #storyfest on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Connect with our audience in Jonesborough and around the globe!
Due to the fact that the humans have stolen fire; opened Pandora's Box and generally defied the dieties...
The Throw Down and subsequent Concert have been cancelled.
Arizona Storytellers - A Hard Days Night - Work Stories Friday - October 7th - 7pm
Heard Museum
Join azcentral.com, The Arizona Republic and Alliance Bank of Arizona for a night of workplace mishaps, customer service nightmares, and unexpected days on the job. Prepare to laugh, learn and relate as tellers share their workplace stories.
Emcee: Megan Finnerty, founder of the Storytellers Project
Featured tellers:
Thomas Sharp
Anna Darian
Seth Conaway
Josh Shore
Charley Edsitty
Laura Hemmenway
Accessibility Note: If you require ASL Interpretation Services for this event or a future Storytellers event, or if you require accommodations related to mobility or seating, contact Alexus Rhone at arhone@gannett.com.
NOTE: This is a First Friday event at the Heard Museum - Steele Auditorium. Admission to the museum is free. But you must buy a ticket to attend the storytelling. We anticipate tickets will sell out.
East Valley Tellers of Tales Guild Meeting Saturday, October 8th ~ 10am - Noon Join us to celebrate storytelling successes.
East Valley Tellers of Tales is a Phoenix area guild of Storytellers and Storylisteners. A truly safe place to share your story! We are an affiliate of the National Storytelling Network. Come and find out what this means, and how it benefits you!
East Valley Tellers of Tales is looking at ways to create outreach, new ideas for the group, plans for the future and more. Join us and lend your talent and energy to help us grow.
Journeys Storytelling Workshop: Your Own Hero's Journey
Saturday - October 15th ~ 10:00 am - Noon Saturday - November 12th ~ 10:00 am - Noon
Whole Life Center at Shadow Rock
Journeys Storytelling Workshops: Your Own Hero's Journey
The Whole Life Center at Shadow Rock
Journeys Storytelling Workshop Intensive:
with Liz Warren and John Genette
Perhaps our most treasured tales are those of a hero’s journey. Whether it’s Odysseus or Dorothy, their stories not only capture our imaginations, but also resonate deep within us - maybe because each of us has experienced our own version of that tale.
Join Storytellers Liz Warren and John Genette this fall to identify and explore your own hero’s journey using Joseph Campbell’s Common Structure. Come and consider with us a time when you’ve followed your own call to adventure, found help, then reward, and ultimately your own way home to a new kind of normal, a bit older but also wiser for the journey.
$20 per session - or $50 for the series
Saturdays, 10 am - noon
September 17 with Liz Warren on Finding Your Story
October 15 with Liz Warren on Developing Your Story
November 12 with John Genette on Delivering Your Story
You will have the option to share your story at our next Journeys: Storytelling Night at The Whole Life Center on Friday, December 2 at 7 pm in Smith Hall. (See Events to reserve tickets for $10 each.)
Arizona Storytellers - Let's Get Political 2 Tuesay - October 17th - 6:30pm
Valley Bar
Join azcentral.com, The Arizona Republic and Alliance Bank of Arizona as we expand The Republic's coverage of Election 2016 with two live storytelling nights dedicated to illuminating how your vote matters and why the political process can be so maddening, exhilarating and confusing.
It will be funny; how could it not be?
The night's theme is "If only they had listened to me." We'll hear from Republic reporters, politicians, community members impacted by laws and voters like you about the awkward, awful and sometimes funny parts about living in a functional democracy. Republic political reporters will be on hand to answer ballot questions and to demonstrate how to use AZ Fact Check. Voter registration also will take place.
Co-emcee: Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
Featured tellers:
Ed Montini, Republic news columnist
Mary Jo Pitzl, Republic state government reporter
Mare Schumacher
Evan Wyloge
Robert Leger
NOTE: The Valley Bar venue requires patrons to be at least 21+ years old to enter their establishment.
Accessibility Note: If you require ASL Interpretation Services for this event or a future Storytellers event, or if you require accommodations related to mobility or seating, contact Alexus Rhone at arhone@gannett.com.
Storyfind Workshop/Reception - Story Kinship: Exploring Connections Saturday - October 22nd
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Story Kinship
Exploring and understanding your personal connections
to non-personal tales
Veteran Storyteller Susan Klein says,
“When something within a folktale resonates with your own story...that’s when the responsibility begins. You do whatever you need to do to get to the root of what it means to you and the truth that resides in the story.”
This session will assist you in exploring and understanding your personal connections to your selected traditional or fact-based story. You will use these connections to make the story “your own”.
Storytelling students are encouraged to bring a story, engage in this discovery process, and then practice telling.
Mark Goldman will facilitate. He is a Storyteller, Coach, Author and Adjunct Professor of Storytelling at Glendale Community College.
It's FREE - Just show up!
Ghost Stories at Rail Yard: A Storytelling Concert for Grown Ups Sunday - October 23rd - 4:30pm - 6:30pm 610 S Park Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719
Stories at the Rail Yard
A storytelling concert for grown ups with
Debra Olson-Tolar, Raymond Hyde and Glenda Bonin
Rail Yard is an artist collective in the row of warehouses across from the rail road tracks on 16th Street (you cannot get to Rail Yard on Park, although their address says Park). Debra Olson-Tolar is the producer. For more details, please call her on her cell phone: 818.403.8331
Doors open at 4pm.
Suggested donation $8 (proceeds go to the artists)
Entrance to Rail Yard is on 16th St., east of Barrio Brewing.
How To Improve Your Storytelling Get out there, get involved and just DO IT!
As you can see from the rest of the newsletter, there are a TON of storytelling workshops, opportunities to tell, concerts, conferences and Calls for Proposals. Last week's Tidbit was about this newsletter, indicating that if you don't send me information, I can't post it. - You can't win if you don't play!
The same goes for Storytelling. You have to get out in the community and get involved.
If you want to be a better storyteller:
Go to workshops.
Go to conferences
Go to concerts and listen to other tellers
Send in a proposal for a workshop
Send in a proposal for a story concert or fringe
Get some coaching
Write a blog
Write a newsletter
Write a book
Etc., Etc., Etc.
If you want to be known in the storytelling community (locally AND nationwide):
See 1-10 above
All of the above will help to improve your storytelling! Even if you don't get accepted for one (or more) of your proposals, going through the process will open your eyes and you will gain much clarity for your telling. Attending a workshop will add skills to your storytelling bag. Going to concerts and hearing other tellers can help you absorb techniques and observe different styles. Celebrating in others' successes will put you in a positive frame of mind for your own telling!
I absolutely understand the economics of being a storyteller and I understand that some of the above may be financially out of reach for some. 'Nuf said. But there are many local events that are inexpensive - and many are FREE - GO TO THEM!
The Call of the Millennials: Please Like Us
Well, not just Millennials, but when anyone creates a new Facebook page!
And we have done just that! East Valley Tellers of Tales has created a new Facebook page for our guild. We are trying to be more aware of and in tune with Social Media. We are far from Millennials, in fact, most of us are Boomers. But we DO want you to LIKE US!
If you have a moment, please go to our page and LIKE US. This will boost our rating in search engines, and make it easier for new folks (hopefully some Millennials - new blood) to find us and join us Each 2nd Saturday in Scottsdale!
------------------------------------THERE'S A LOT GOING ON EACH MONTH -------------------CHECK EACH WEBSITE OR CALENDAR TO CONFIRM DATES AND TIMES ---------------------------------CALL TO MAKE SURE THE EVENT IS STILL ON
FStorytellers - Female Story Tellers - Tucson
Usually sometime during the first week of the month - but check their website) at 7 pm - TUCSON http://www.fstorytellers.com/index.html
West Side Story Tellers - Storytellers Guild First Saturday of each month - GLENDALE *NO meetings in July & August http://westsidestorytellers.weebly.com
East Valley Tellers of Tales -Storytellers Guild Second Saturday of each month - SCOTTSDALE - *NO meetings in July & August http://www.evtot.com
Storyfind Fourth Saturday of each month (usually - check calendar) - *NO meetings in June & July
SMCC Storytelling Institute
A monthly workshop designed to help storytellers build community and deepen repertoire. See the Calendar
- National Storytelling Network? You should be.
Confabulation! 2017
NSN National Storytelling Conference 2017
Friday - October 7th - 7pm
Saturday, October 8th ~ 10am - Noon
Get out there, get involved and just DO IT!
