Yesterday I went out to the Scottish Seabird Centre to visit with Emily Dodd, their education officer. She uses storytelling in her work with school groups. In order to set the mood for stories, such as Percy the Puffin, she uses an ocean drum. You may be familiar with rainsticks–bamboo shakers filled with beads thatContinue reading “Weird and Wonderful Fairly-traded Instruments for Storytelling”
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Mikku and the Trees at Tree Spirit
In preparing for a tree story-walk, I stumbled across a wonderful resource for environmentally-inclined storytellers (and people who simply love trees): http://www.spiritoftrees.org. This site lists folktales, and links to folktales, concerning various species of tree. Of particular interest to readers of this blog, the full text of Margaret Read MacDonald‘s telling of Mikku and theContinue reading “Mikku and the Trees at Tree Spirit”
Storylistening Podcast Added: Michael Williams Speaks about Healing Stories and the Middle East
In an earlier post, I wrote about Starhawk’s plea for the telling of new stories in and about the Middle East. Today, I am pleased to be able to offer a podcast concerning a project that is being undertaken in Israel and Palestine to bring about the end of the old story and the beginningContinue reading “Storylistening Podcast Added: Michael Williams Speaks about Healing Stories and the Middle East”
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