STORYTELLING RADIO PROGRAM!
"STORY-LOVERS WORLD! "
with Jackie Baldwin
http://www.ksvy.org
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Sundays, 5-6 pm Pacific time (adjust for your time zone) 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 18: Today we continue celebrating the lives of some of our Here are a few of those stories. Featured storytellers: Joe Keenan (Tennessee) Kathy Hunter (Oregon) Bob Reiser (New York) Rosie Simon (New York) Carrie Sue Ayvar (Florida) Joe Wos (Pennsylvania) •••••• Guest tellers... I love telling stories. I love it so much that I became a full-time storyteller in 1993. What do I tell? Funny, scary, serious, goofy and sophisticated stories, tailored to the audience in front of me. You’ll find me at festivals, school assemblies and residencies, juvenile detention centers, libraries, house concerts, colleges and coffeehouses. I perform in English, French and occasionally Bulgarian. When I'm with young children, my hand puppets come along for the ride. When I’m performing for older kids and adults, I may bring out stories for more refined sensibilities. I travel around the US and to Europe, telling stories. When I’m at home in my little brick house in Lawrence, KS I tell stories to my cat, Joe Fish. My recordings, "The Bully Billy Goat and Other Stories" (DVD), "The Best (and Worst) of Beasts" (CD), "The Ghost With the One Black Eye" (CD), and "Chickens!" (CD) are available on storyteller.net and at a few local outlets. Wonder what I sound like? Go to my listening page. Want to read my ramblings? Here’s my blog. I’m also looking for the best restaurant pie on earth. Priscilla's story Fox and Hedgehog is found on this CD: About this CD: "Hey! I know you! You came to my school and told that story! Remember me?" Kids say this to Priscilla all the time (and she loves it). When she tells stories, kids remember for years to come. This CD was recorded live at an elementary school, so you’ll hear comments, cheers and giggles in the background. "Chickens!" is almost an hour of ridiculous (and a few very slightly scary) stories, some of Priscilla’s faves. Her first CD, "The Ghost With the One Black Eye" is just as ridiculous, and has even more stories. Both are great for kids age 4-10 (yup, it’s a wide age range, but it works). Her background? Priscilla has been telling stories all her life, and has called herself a storyteller since 1988. In 1993, she quit her job as a children’s librarian and became a full-time storyteller in Lawrence,Kansas. She travels all over the country and has performed in Europe as well--in French and Bulgarian as well as in English. She tells at schools, libraries, festivals and coffeehouses (also juvenile detention halls, house concerts, conferences, you name it). She has given workshops at the National Storytelling Conference (1997, 2001, 2003) and performed at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN, at the Exchange Place in October 2001.Here are some of the comments on her performances: "...When you told stories there was this feeling inside of me that made me feel like I was having a great dream." --student at Grant School, Lawrence KS "Tell it again!"--countless students over the years "Encore une histoire!"--countless Belgian students Priscilla is also searching for the best restaurant pie on earth. Shipping and Handling costs: We have a flat-rate shipping cost for 1-10 items from our store. Please see store front for current charge. This item normally ships via the United States Postal Service. Please allow 10 working days for product to reach you. Items may arrive in separate packages. No refunds but we will offer an exchange if CD Disk or Book is damaged. This item is dropped shipped and the vendor will be given your mailing address, phone number and Email address to facilitate the shipping process. Your credit card information is not shared. Priscilla has two other CDs and a DVD at the same site. • Joe Keenan (Tennessee) — There Were 3 Crows Joe has brought his unique style to Seniors in retirement, civic and social clubs, college classes, school kids in elementary and middle grades, and to family groups at festivals. He has twice been featured at the annual conference of the Tennessee Storytelling Association, and has performed four times at the Tennessee Festival of Books. He has entertained at the Saturday night concert of the VASA Gathering, the TaleSpin Festival in Chattanooga, and was featured at the First Annual Hoggs Falls Storytelling Festival, Owensboro, KY. In addition to performances, Joe offers workshops on: Articles by Joe Contact Information: • Kathy Hunter (Oregon) — Pretty Chicken Kathy's tales are original stories or reinterpreted folktales that often feature music. She sings, and employs a variety of musical instruments that include autoharp, dulcimer, penny whistle and ukulele. In Northeastern Oregon a delighted audience listens to this family storyteller on the air, and sees her perform at schools, summer camps, retirement homes, arts festivals, libraries, and Fishtrap events. Kathy has produced two CDs with her characteristic stick-in-your-head songs. The CDs Why the Skunk Stinks, and Other Nature Stories for Children, and Rowf! Songs and Tales from Many Cultures are available locally, or from the author. Kathy is a member of the National Storytelling Network, is listed by the Oregon Library Association in their Performer's Showcase and represented by the Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council. Listeners' Comments "I must admit I was mesmerized." "You are a wonderful storyteller." "Your CD is wonderful. I really liked all the different voices you can do, the vocabulary you chose, the incremental endearments, the repeated elements and the stories you selected. The extra voices on one story help to supply variety. I can see why kids would like it. I especially liked the ouzel story because I have a soft spot in my heart for ouzels." "All of us at Wallowa Elementary really enjoyed your African presentation at our Book 25 Club get-together. You had the kids hooked, Kathy, with your story. We appreciate your time and expertise and we look forward to having you come to our school again in the future." "Thanks so much for your time and talent in storytelling at camp this year. We really appreciate your leading a workshop. It was terrific, and a great experience for the kids! I hope you'll join us again next year." "Thanks for a great performance." "Thank you so much for sharing your storytelling talent with our group. The crowd and noise were far greater than expected but you seemed to have the audience on stage captivated. The storytelling greatly enhanced our success!" "The happiness you spread is through your children's stories. You're great! The children love listening to you and so do I. You are The Wallowa Valley story lady." "After Emma heard Kathy's stories at school she came home and told them to me verbatim. She played the characters and sang the songs, for days. I've never seen her taken by a story like that!" "My friend loaned me her fancy van to take a bunch of kids to the pool. I turned on the key, the seat began to heat up, the CD player came on and all the kids started singing along. It was my Mom's CD!" "Storytelling artistry, mesmerizing presentations. She has command of an innovative style along with consummate storytelling skill. .. Incredible spirit, humor, wisdom and grace.. Articulate, nurturing, life-affirming—an exceptionally talented artist and educator." "Dear Storyteller, Programs include but are not limited to: • Bob Reiser (New York) — The Swan Tenor My Story Mom and dad wanted me to be a doctor. But it was not to be. The world of stories beckoned! An M. A. in theater from NYU Drama School, a stint at Chicago's Second City Improvisational group, and comedy sketches for some forgotten TV shows finished my education. I even toured with my own comedy troupe, The Portable Radio Circus. In 1976, I settled into full-time writing, including collaboration on two books with folk singer and community-organizer Pete Seeger. The turn to storytelling came in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Wandering around the square, I saw a hand-made "dream catcher" almost ten feet tall standing in front of a shop. Inside, the counter was covered with little clay figures of seated grandfathers and grandmothers with laps full of grandchildren; "storytellers" the proprietor called them. Then she told me how each winter, the elders come into homes with their stories. "Each day they sit with the family, close their eyes and dream the stories of long ago -- Stories of the sky and the earth and the spirits and the animals. The children grow quiet and listen; even the adults who have heard the stories listen." I ran outside and told my wife, "Sandy, when I grow old, I want to be a storyteller!" "Why wait until you are old?" she said - a sensible answer. I began collecting stories; I began writing them. Finally I got up my courage and I began telling them, and fell in love with audiences as well. That was nine years ago. The love affair continues. Excerpts from an interview with Bob: A. Oh, great. That’s a question I love to answer because it’s a story. About 12 years ago, my wife and I were out west in Taos, NM, which is really a beautiful, beautiful area, and we were in the town of Taos, which is a traditional Native American place... The Indians live there and they don’t have electricity. They try to keep it very traditional for people who want to live that kind of a life. But they’ve got lots of shops there and boutiques, so I had seen from the sidewalk this enormous dreamcatcher. It must have been about 10 feet across. And it was like a beacon and pulled me into the store. It was a little shop, it had no lights in it, and it was hard to see. And I started talking to the woman there about her dreamcatcher and she said that her husband had been working on it for years and it wasn’t for sale... I said, don’t worry, I didn’t want to buy it—there would be no way to get it home—and then I noticed that she had these little dolls, little play dolls, men or women seated with little children around them. I had been seeing them all over town, I saw them everywhere. And she said those were storytellers. Now, I couldn’t imagine how that could be a storyteller because to me storytellers were people who entertained at children’s parties and they wore funny hats, so they just didn’t look like storytellers. But she said, 'No...in the winter, it’s very cold here and you don’t want the grandparents to freeze so we invite them into our houses to spend time with us and they’ll sleep on the sofa or we put out a bed for them in the dining room and they’re safe there, but they don’t want to just stay and do nothing for their keep, so they’ll spend the winter—or as long as they stay there—telling stories. And they’ll tell stories about where we came from, where the animals came from. They’ll tell stories for the children, and every evening the family will sit around as they tell all the old stories, and when they feel they have no more stories to tell, they’ll move on and stay with another family.' I was so—tears were running down my face by the time she finished, because it was such a beautiful idea of what stories meant, and about a society where nobody was wasted, nobody was thrown away. And I walked out and my wife had been walking on the street. I said, 'You know, when I get old, I’m going to be a storyteller.' She said 'Well, you don’t have to wait until you’re old.' She doesn’t remember saying that, but I’m sure she did. And I said, 'Oh, no, I guess I don’t,' but it took about a year and a half after that that I finally got up the nerve to tell a story. Q. How did you know what to do? The only thing I knew about telling stories was what the woman in the store had told me. She said, 'If you’ll notice on the dolls, their eyes are closed. That’s because they’re dreaming the story.' So I said to myself, okay, I’m going to close my eyes and I’m going to dream the story. So I closed my eyes and I started to tell the story of Jumping Mouse. And as I was telling the story, I heard it got very quiet and I still didn’t have the nerve to open my eyes and I kept watching the story with my closed eyes and telling what I saw, and then I opened my eyes about halfway through the story—I finally got my nerve—and people were staring and listening with an intensity... I’d never seen that and nobody ever listens to me that closely. What I was doing was—the main thing a storyteller has to do is to visualize the story, to see the story as you’re telling it. So I didn’t know any better, but I did the right thing. Q. The story you’re going to tell us today is one you wrote yourself, so tell us about that. It’s called The Pumpkin’s Tale. A. I had gotten a little program I was reviewing for a local newspaper, a little computer program for writing... to teach children how to write, creative writing, and so in this program there would be pictures instead of words. So instead of spelling out "apple" and typing it out, there would be a picture of an apple and they could just plug it into their story. So I started typing and I typed out, "There once was an…" and I looked over all the different pictures and saw a pumpkin and I plugged in the pumpkin and I kept writing... "who was in love with a…" and I looked over there and saw a carrot, so I plugged that in, "a pumpkin in love with a carrot" and from there on, I just let my imagination go and the story came out. It took about a year and several retellings of it and fooling around with it to polish it enough. You never know where you a story is going to come from….##### Bob's CDs and Books: Contact: Bob Reiser You may also reach Bob via: New York Arts Connection • Rosie Simon (New York) — Why Hens Scratch in the Dirt • Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss (New York) — Who's the Beauty and who's the Beast? Mitch and Martha have traveled as far as Taiwan and Hong Kong to perform and teach others to tell. All of their books have been published in Taiwan because it is such a priority to learn English on the island, and teachers of English have found that storytelling is one of the best ways to get students excited about a new language. "Beauty and the Beast" have also completed numerous tours of European International Schools. Among the places they have told stories are Prague, Vienna, Munich, Florence, Milan, Genoa, Madrid, Moscow, London, and Budapest. New Books Just Out and More on the Way! Contact: • Carrie Sue Ayvar (Florida) — The Little Red Hen Carrie Sue Ayvar is a third generation bilingual (Spanish/English) storyteller. She has been dedicated to preserving and promoting the art of storytelling throughout the United States and Mexico. She has developed and given storytelling workshops for families, teachers, and students, from preschool to university level, as well as for community groups. From the time she could sit at the knees of her grandparents, listening to them tell their stories of the Old World or hearing her father recount show business adventures, through her move to Mexico as a teenager, Carrie Sue has been collecting and telling tales. You can travel around the world with her on an imaginary journey. She takes you on an incredible bilingual exploration across the continents into other times and places using words, rhythms, movement and chants. With the simplest of phrases, "Habíase una vez/Once upon a time . . . " Carrie Sue's magical tales, in Spanish and English, celebrates both the similarities and the differences within our multi-cultural communities. Even if you have never spoken a word of Spanish before, you may find yourself repeating many phrases during and after her enchanting performances! A nationally acclaimed bilingual storyteller, Carrie Sue Ayvar is dedicated to preserving and promoting the art of storytelling. Sharing her stories in both Spanish and English, Carrie Sue performs at schools, parks, libraries, community festivals, hospitals and museum outreach programs. She has developed and given storytelling workshops and lectures (including Keynote speeches). Believing that stories are one of the best means of explaining and passing on the beliefs, traditions and history that individuals or communities wish to keep alive, Carrie Sue tries to connect people, languages and cultures through her stories. She feels stories are the threads that are woven into the tapestry of time and the telling of them helps to develop language, critical and creative thinking skills as well as to build self-confidence and poise. Her performances blend entertainment and education. Carrie Sue’s stories are filled with as much fun and surprises as her unique & colorful storyteller's apron from which she plucks information, inspiration & improvisations! Her training includes The Kennedy Center program for the Performing Arts, “ Artists As Educators: Planning Effective Workshops for Teachers”, “Giving Cues: Developing Performance Materials for Young People” and the Broward Kennedy Center Team’s “Expanding the Scope of Performance Materials – From Arts Only to Integration Across the Curriculum”. For over three years, always ready to enthusiastically share her fun, she worked with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit ® at Miami Children’s Hospital. bringing her stories, joy & laughter to patients, families and staff. Active in local and national storytelling guilds, she currently serves on the executive board of the Florida Storytelling Association, as State Liaison to the National Storytelling Network and is Chairman of the Florida “Youthful Voices” Storytelling Contest. As a Chautauqua scholar and performance artist with the Florida Humanities Council’s Speakers Bureau, she shares some of Florida’s unique history with audiences throughout the state. These include: Rose Weiss, called the Mother of Miami Beach, who, with persistence and a smile, fought prejudice, created jobs, helped the needy and guided the city from its earliest days. One person did make a difference. Dr. Anna Darrow, “ Doc Anner, the Petticoat Doctor of the Everglades”, was a pioneer woman doctor who started medical school in 1903 just after giving birth to her second child. An accomplished award winning artist, she traveled through the swamps & glades of Florida treating any and all who needed her help no matter their color or backgrounds including fishermen, trappers, Seminole Indians and even dangerous outlaw gangs. AUDIOCASSETTE "As she tells her stories, Carrie Ayvar gets enthused with childish glee. Whether in English or in Spanish, her tales deal with simple facts about nature, animals, daily life, with beautiful images and constructive morals." Contact: • Joe Wos (Pennsylvania) — Don on the Farm Joe has worked as a freelance cartoonist since the age of 14. Clients have included the late presidential candidate and comedian Pat Paulsen and a goat cheese farm in Slovenia. His mazes, dubbed "The World's Most Difficult" by Ripley's Believe It or Not!, are on exhibit at museums worldwide. His parodys of famous artists and their works, "Great Art Belongs on Refrigerator Doors," remains one of his favorite exhibits. He also created a Toon Studio for the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, loaning his collection of original cartoon by cartoon legends from the past 100 years. Joe, a cartooning instructor since age 18, Joe continues to spread his love of cartooning and share his skills and techniques as a cartoonist with students of all ages. He had the great honor of being the first resident cartoonist of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa Calif. When not performing , Joe spends his time writing stories for his program and practicing them on his family. He is working on several comic books based on original stories performed during "Once Upon a Toon." Amazing Joe Wos Facts! Contact Joe at: (Page created 1/21/07)
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