Wintertelling 2009
is coming up:
Feb. 6
Monroe County Public Library
Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Hope premieres her Lincoln piece!
Of the People: Stories and Images of Abraham Lincoln
told by Hope Baugh
In collaboration with the Indiana Historical Society
Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center Frank and Katrina Basile Theater
450 W. Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Sunday, January 18th
4 -6 p.m.
Tickets $10/Advance, $12/Door
Call 317-232-1882 or www.storytellingarts.org/store/category/Tickets
In collaboration with the Indiana Historical Society
Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center Frank and Katrina Basile Theater
450 W. Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Sunday, January 18th
4 -6 p.m.
Tickets $10/Advance, $12/Door
Call 317-232-1882 or www.storytellingarts.org/store/category/Tickets
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of our 16th president's birth, Hope Baugh will premiere her original piece Of the People: Stories and Images of Abraham Lincoln as part of the Sharing Hoosier History Through Stories Series presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and the Indiana Historical Society.
Hope drew inspiration from Lincoln's unique position as the first president to be widely portrayed via photographs and other visual images. This, she imagines, gave the American people a sense of "ownership" of their President that had not existed before. His humble childhood in a one-room cabin and lack of formal education made him seem truly "of the people" -- an image that lingers even today.
Hope Baugh currently works full-time as a department manager for a public library, and part-time as a freelance storyteller and teacher. This year, she will be teaching a graduate workshop in storytelling for Master of Library Science students at IUPUI, and will serve as an Encore Association judge for community theater in the 2008 - 09 season. She also maintains a blog, http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/, where she reviews several local theater and storytelling performances per week. While not teaching, blogging, judging or performing, Hope enjoys spending time in her garden.
Hope drew inspiration from Lincoln's unique position as the first president to be widely portrayed via photographs and other visual images. This, she imagines, gave the American people a sense of "ownership" of their President that had not existed before. His humble childhood in a one-room cabin and lack of formal education made him seem truly "of the people" -- an image that lingers even today.
Hope Baugh currently works full-time as a department manager for a public library, and part-time as a freelance storyteller and teacher. This year, she will be teaching a graduate workshop in storytelling for Master of Library Science students at IUPUI, and will serve as an Encore Association judge for community theater in the 2008 - 09 season. She also maintains a blog, http://www.indytheatrehabit.com/, where she reviews several local theater and storytelling performances per week. While not teaching, blogging, judging or performing, Hope enjoys spending time in her garden.
Hope is a long time member of the Bloomington Storytellers Guild.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Listen on-line
Here's a site to check out:
The Art of Storytelling with Children
"A national online community of storytellers hosted by Eric Wolf"
Try listening to some of the audios - available as podcasts or just download to your computer.
Check out the list of guests he's interviewed - you'll recognize a lot of the names there.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
More October stories
Mary and Mary delighted the kids at University School the day before Halloween.
Mary D's inspired power-point assisted story drew laughs. What a lot of work went into preparing that one!
Mary D's inspired power-point assisted story drew laughs. What a lot of work went into preparing that one!Mary F introduced the children to the dangers of picking a green gourd.
A week later one of the Kindergarten teachers reported that his kids are still chasing each other around the playground playing that the chaser is the green gourd.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Setting a goulish mood
Oh the fiendish storyteller! To what lengths will she go to create atmosphere?
She will freeze eyeballs, that's what.
And float them in Vampire Blood Punch
which she will gleefully dip out for a ravenous audience.
She will freeze eyeballs, that's what.And float them in Vampire Blood Punchwhich she will gleefully dip out for a ravenous audience. 
A few of the audience are hesitant to try such delights
but the rest mob the storyteller. They are delighted to nibble on "graveyard worms" and "brittle bones".Saturday, October 25, 2008
Festival of Ghost Stories
The weather was perfect for the Festival of Ghost Stories this year. This has been a rare occurrence in the past 30 plus years of the Festival.
The setting sun gilded the tellers as they checked on sound levels.
Mary prepared to gross people out with "Dottie Got Her Liver."
Lisa's chant of "Hobyah! Hobyah!" sounded truely menacing. 
As the sun left the stage, the audience settled in for an evening of missing body parts, monsters, lost loves, mysterious spirits, treacherous waters, and a fey changeling. They shivered, they started, and they felt by turns melancholy and horrified. Then they all wandered home in the suitably spooky darkness.Our thanks to the tellers, to the musician and to the MC, to the folks from Parks and Rec, and to the cop who stopped the noisy parade of pickups.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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