Storytelling Radio Program
KSVY-FM 91.3, Sonoma, CA
http://www.ksvy.org
Sundays, 5-6 pm Pacific time (adjust for your time zone)
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Theme music: Special thanks to Petra Koch in Germany (she works with Storyteller Richard Martin), who performed the beautifully haunting alto recorder music of Como Podem from the 13th century collection Cantigas de Santa Maria (copy of Kynsecker, Mollenhauer & Co.). Used on this program with her kind permission.
Engineer: Brodie Giles, KSVY
PROGRAM 12:
Dec 10, 2006 - Tales From Time Immemorial — The Epics
David Ponkey (California)
(Stories from the Kalavala (Finland), the Mabinogion (Wales) and the Ossian Cycle (Ireland)
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Guest teller for the hour...
• David Ponkey —
(Stories from the Kalavala (Finland), the Mabinogion (Wales) and the Ossian Cycle (Ireland)
David is a graduate of the Dominican University Storytelling Credential Program and holds a Bachelor's Degree in theater. He is a member of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum Storytelling Corps, and has served as a member of the Board of directors for the Storytelling Association of Alta California for six years. David is the recipient of three Marin Arts Council grants. His Storytelling CD, Anything Can Happen, is the winner of a Parents' Choice award.
ASSEMBLIES:
Folktales From Around the World
(Grades K-5)
Take a world tour of old folktales from around the world—USA, Asia, Africa, India and Ireland. With wit and whimsy, storytelling is a great bridge toward cultural understanding. Tales can be chosen to suit different age ranges and fit specific curriculum needs.
Greek Mythology
(Grades 6-8)
David will tell stories drawn from the myths and epics of ancient Greece. Filled with noble deeds and dark motives, these are the heroic quests that form the foundation of Western literature. The performance can be followed by a discussion of the historical context.
Tales of King Arthur
(Grades 3-8)
Myth, legend, history and literature all meet in the ancient stories of King Arthur and the medieval times. Tales of love and betrayal, power and bravery, all set within the rich tapesstry of bold knights and fearsome giants. The performance is followed by a discussion of the historical context.
RESIDENCIES:
Storytelling
Storytelling is as old as the first campfire and as new as today. In this residency, children learn to express themselves through this unique art form. Emphasis is on shaping a story to create a continuous narrative with a beginning, middle and end. Children learn characterization, how to bring the story to life and how to express themselves through voice and movement. This residency is designed to address the Language Arts and Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards.
Finding Your Voice
Public speaking is a crucial skill in modern society. The residency focuses on basic presentation skills such as vocal projection, eye contact, and body possture. David also addresses important skills, such as facial and vocal expression, needed to make presentations more enjoyable. Most importantly, students learn to relax and have fun in front of a group of peers. The residency is designed to address the Language Arts and History and Social Sciences Content Standards.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Effective Presentation
Teaching is a performance art. Whether reading a book or presenting a math lesson, we must engage our students' attention. During this workshop, teachers learn to use physical, facial and vocal expression to draw students into the lesson.
Curriculum Connections:
Language Arts, History & Social Studies
For more information or for a booking, contact Young Audiences Northern California:
415-974-5554 or 408-453-6677
David's CD available:
Anything Can Happen
Spring 2000 Music
Ages: 4 - 12 yrs.
Performed By: David Pontey
Producer: Laughing Dragon
Tape Price: $10.00
Review:
"Eight hundred years ago in China, there was a sleepy little town along the Silk Road" So begins a gem of a short story about a young girl who saves her village when she bests the terrible Genghis Khan in a debate without words. "Once there was an unlucky man" "A long time ago, there was a woodcutter"
With sly humor, a conversational style and a dash of mild earthiness, storyteller David Ponkey spins multicultural tales about spirits and goddesses, animals who talk, foolish wise men and wise fools, knaves, schemers and dreamers
Contact David at:
parsivale@comcast.net
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EPIC POETRY from Wikipedia
The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature. It retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. In the West, the Iliad, Odyssey and Nibelungenlied; and in the East, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Shahnama and Epic of King Gesar are often cited as examples of the epic genre. The composition of epic poetry, or of long poems in general, has become uncommon in the Western world since the early 20th century. The term "epic" however has been recycled to refer to prose works, films, and similar works which are characterized by great length, multiple settings, large numbers of characters, or long span of time involved. As a result of this change in the use of the word, many prose works of the past may be called "epics" which were not composed or originally understood as such.
For more information on Epic Poetry, go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_poetry
KALEVALA (Finland) from Wikipedia
For other meanings of Kalevala, see: Kalevala (disambiguation)
The Kalevala is an epic poem which Elias Lönnrot compiled from Finnish folk lore in the 19th century. It is commonly called the Finnish-Karelian national epic and is traditionally thought of as one of the most significant works of Finnish language literature. The Kalevala is credited with some of the inspiration for the national awakening that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917.
The name can be interpreted as the "lands of Kaleva" (by the Finnish suffix -la/lä for place). The epic consists of 22,795 verses, divided into fifty cantos or "chapters" (Finnish runo).
For more information about the Kalevala (Finland), go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala
MABINOGION (Wales) from Wikipedia
"Mabinogi" redirects here. For other uses, see Mabinogi (disambiguation).
The Mabinogion is a collection of prose stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts. They are partly based on early medieval historical events, but may hark back to older iron age traditions.
The stories of the Mabinogion appear in two Medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White book of Rhydderch (Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch) written ca. 1350, and the Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest) written about 1382-1410, although fragments of these tales have been preserved in earlier 13th century manuscripts. Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing manuscripts, but disagree over just how much older. It seems likely that different texts contained within the Mabinogion originated at different times. Debate has focused on the dating of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Sir Ifor Williams offered a date prior to 1100, based on linguistic and historical arguments, while later Saunders Lewis set forth a number of arguments for a date between 1170 and 1190; T.M. Charles-Edwards, in a paper published in 1970, discussed the strengths and weaknesses of both viewpoints, and while critical of the arguments of both scholars, noted that the language of the stories best fits the period between 1000 and 1100, although much more work is needed. More recently, Patrick Sims-Williams argued for a plausible range of about 1060 to 1200, and this seems to be the current scholarly consensus.
For more information about the Mabinogion (Wales), go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion
OSSIAN CYCLE (Ireland)
This article is about the cycle of poems by James Macpherson and their main character. For the character from Irish mythology, see Oisín. For other uses of the name Ossian, see Ossian (disambiguation).
Ossian's dream, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1813
Ossian is the narrator, and supposed author, of a cycle of poems which the Scottish poet James Macpherson claimed to have translated from ancient sources in the Scots Gaelic. He is based on Oisín, son of Fionn mac Cumhaill, a character from Irish mythology. The furore over the "authenticity" of the poems continued into the 20th century. This controversy over its authenticity tends nowadays to be overshadowed by discussion of the literary merit of the poems.
For more information about the Ossian Cycle (Ireland), go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossian
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Also, using the Google search engine, key in "epic poetry," "Kalevala," "Mabinogion," and "Ossian."
You'll get thousands of hits...
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