An invitation to view "The Storyteller and The Listener Online"

DOYLESTOWN, Pa., USA -- As a boy growing up in central Pennsylvania. Robin Moore found Christmas and family storytelling so intertwined that he couldn't separate them. Moore offers tips for enrichening holiday traditions of any faith with family storytelling in today's issue of The Storyteller and the Listener Online.
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The Storyteller and the Listener Online, a noncommercial newsletter, publishes guest essays on the role of story and narrative in peacemaking, healing, bridge building and reconciliation in the community. Propose an essay at healing_stories@mac.com
Holly Stevens, editorThe Storyteller and the Listener Onlinehttp://storyteller-and-listener.blog-city.com/Email: healing_stories@mac.comOak Ridge, North Carolina, USA(336) 643-5947
This announcement is being shared with a storytelling listserv I belong to as well as a carefully selected handful of blog sites that seem to focus on family storytelling traditions during this time of year. I don't expect responses but will gladly reply to anyone who chooses to email me back. -- Holly Stevens

The Mitten

How did Stephanie fit all those puppet characters into one old mitten? The preschoolers were amazed as first a mouse, then a frog and an owl and a rabbit and a fox and a wolf and a great big bear squeezed inside. They really did go in. We all saw their feet and tails disappear. Then the tiny ladybug came creeeping up....put just one teeeny tiny toe inside.... and.... KABOOM!

Puppets flew out into the audience in all directions! Kids squealed and scrambled to catch them, causing temporary chaos.

It was a hard act to follow, Stephanie.

Porquoi?

Why is 'possum's tail bare? Ask Patty.

Or the 2nd and 4th graders who've been lucky enough to hear her tell the tale this week!

A Storytelling Gathering

The Bloomington Storytelling Guild will have its annual holiday gathering on Sunday, December 16th. Check your email for details!

The Search For a Time and a Place to Paint

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Stephanie Holman presented her story about three women artists of the Brown County Artists Colony. She was commissioned by the Indiana Historical Center and Storytelling Arts of Indiana to create a program for their "Sharing Hoosier History Through Stories" series. This program was to promote the IHS publication "Skirting the Issue: Indiana's Historical Women Artists."
Stephanie premiered the story in 2004 and has traveled the state telling the 45-minute program at numerous museums and libraries. This presentation on November 1st at the Monroe County Public Library was her final presentation of the story. However, it was filmed by Community Access Television and will be shown regularly on Channel 3.

The Storytelling Fork

As we gather with family and friends this Thursday, here's a game to get your whole family telling stories. Just click on the link for the "Pass the Talking Fork "game!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

In Print

Congratulations to Pamela Genfell Smith! Her "six postcards from my journey with the academy for biblical storytelling" is the lead article in the November/December issue of The Biblical Storyteller.