Storytelling Radio Program
KSVY-FM 91.3, Sonoma, CA
www.ksvy.org/home.htm
Sundays, 5-6 pm Pacific time (adjust for your time zone)
Live audio streaming: Go to the KSVY website above. In the upper right-hand corner, click on High or Low Speed and find yourself listening to the program in progress.
Archives: Go to the KSVY website above. Click on "Shows" in the left frame. Scroll down and click on "Story-Lovers World," then click on "Past Episodes" under my picture. Now you have your choice of all the programs available to date as archives.
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.). The different music at the end of the programs is also by Petra. Used on this program with her kind permission.
Engineer: Brodie Giles, KSVY radio station 91.3 FM
PROGRAM 25:
March 18 & 25, 2007 - Just For Kids!
Today's program is Just For Kids! (and those of us who are still kids at heart!)
Here are the wonderful tellers and their stories. You're guaranteed
not just one, not just two, but many, many laughs.
Featured storytellers:
Auntie Oyé (Washington, D.C.)
The Bilingual Mouse
W hat happens when an clever mouse really, really, really wants that cheese.
Kathy Hunter (Oregon)
Dead, Dead -
Alas and alack! How sad the life of a vulture can be when he can't find anything to eat.
Joe Wos (Pennsylvania)
The Smartest Dragon
How smart is smart? The Dragon knows...
Yvonne Healy (Michigan)
The People-Eating Monster
Yum! Yum! There's nothing like a good "people" to crunch on!
Priscilla Howe (Kansas)
The Lazy Young Woman
Ho hum! lazy, lazy,lazy - this will remind you of another story.
Elaine Stanley (California)
A Tale of Tails
Ever wonder about the sniffing process of the canine kind?
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Guest tellers...
• Vera Oyé Yaa-Anna (Washington, D.C./Liberia) — The Bilingual Mouse
Known affectionately as "Auntie Oyé," Yaa-Anna is one of Washington's leading storytellers and has also been teaching the art of personal narrative to at-risk Washington-area youth in the tradition of her native Liberia since 1996. This cultural educator and accomplished culinary artist, takes children and adults on "Journeys to Africe" through storytelling food, dance and theatre.
Since 1993, Yaa-Anna has been bringing to life the hopes and despair of her continent to the people of America through an educational cultural enrichment dinner theatre program entitled Palaver Hut. Yaa-Anna magically transforms schools, colleges, churches, special events and other performing venues into West African villages.
She is a master storyteller, who weaves stories about food-ways and background of ethnic groups into a culinary experience, which includes cooking and enjoying "food arts pieces" served and displayed in beautiful, uniquely created environments. The Culinary Griots Workshop emphasizes the significance of culture, eating rituals and the power of food to unit people.
In 2003, Yaa-Anna joined the Artist-in-Residence program at Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts through which she works at the Washington Cancer Institute and Howard University Hospital with cancer patients during all phases of treatment to inspire them to tell their stories.
She is currently teaching traditional African storytelling, the ancient spiritual and ancesestral rituals of libations, the traditional African "greeting of elders", drumming on the African drum the jembe and dancing her sensuous dance movements to the drum of her Creator and Ancestors "her heart."
Her story Spider at the Weddings is accompanied on authentic African instruments by master musician Mongezi Ntaka.
Contact:
Auntie Oyé may be contacted at:
oyepalaver11@verizon.net
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• Kathy Hunter (Oregon) — Dead, Dead
Kathy Hunter loves to entertain. Following a long writing career in Alaska, enlivened by an interest in music and community theater, she has combined all her talents in storytelling. After retiring to Wallowa County in Eastern Oregon, she found an active supporter in the writers' nonprofit organization Fishtrap (http://www.Fishtrap.org ). Kathy produces Fishtrap Storytime, a weekly show on radio KWVR in Enterprise, and her stories have been aired on public radio from Spokane to Honolulu.
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
"Thanks so much for helping to make our Dr, Seuss Day such a success. You were terrific! I'll never look at the Green Eggs and Ham Book in the same way."
—Marcie Sheehy, Librarian, Wallowa Elementary, Wallowa, OR
"I must admit I was mesmerized."
—Lauren Bienkowski, Northhampton, MA. Children's Crisis Counselor
"You are a wonderful storyteller."
—Rebecca Cohen, Newport Librarian, Newport, OR.
"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."
—Ann Chandonnet, Juneau, AK. Poet, Journalist, Mother
"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."
—The Wallowa Elementary Staff, Wallowa OR
"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."
—Jeni Greenshields, Director, Joseph Summer Camp, Joseph, OR
"Thanks for a great performance."
—Minnie Tucker, La Grande Parks & Rec. LaGrande, OR
"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!"
—Anne & Angie, Building Healthy Families, Enterprise, OR
"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."
—Iva Lindsay, Lostine Vacation Bible School, Lostine, OR
"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!"
—Carolyn Lochert-Musician, Mom, Lostine, OR
"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!"
—Mindy Hunter, Fairbanks, AK. Teacher, daughter, Mom
"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."
—Merna Hecht, Storyteller, Arts Educator, Literacy Consultant WA, School Districts
"Dear Storyteller,
Thank you for telling us the storys. I lickde the billegot won it wus gat. (I liked the billy goat one; it was great) "
—Frum Tiffany Wallowa, OR
Programs include but are not limited to:
1 Environmental Stories:
2 Grandmother Nature Stories
3 Just for Fun
4 Multicultural Stories
5 Oregon My Oregon
6 Greek Myths
7 Student Workshops
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Contact Kathy at:
http://www.kathytales.com/index.html
http://www.kathytales.com/contact_form.html
Kathy Hunter
68762 Allen Canyon Loop Rd
Wallowa, OR 97885
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• Joe Wos (Pennsylvania) — The Smartest Dragon
ONCE UPON A TOON®
Joe Wos is a freelance cartoonist and storyteller from Pittsburgh. Who has been sharing his talents with audiences across the nation for the past 12 years. His one-man show, "Once Upon a Toon,"combines his passion for storytelling and drawing cartoons. Joe, with his quick wit and lightning-speed drawings of original stories, classic fables and folk tales, never fails to amaze and entertain during "Once Upon a Toon." A single presentation yields an average of 20 original drawings, which are given to the audience at the end of each show. His rapid drawing skills have earned Joe the reputation as "Fastest Draw in the East!" And his tours of Texas, California and Arizona have extended this reputation to "Fastest Draw in the West." Joe has performed at many festivals, museums, libraries, and schools nationwide. His favorite original story, "The Smartest Dragon," is a delightful tale for children and the young at heart. His imaginative spin on classic stories and folk tales, such as "The True Story of Johnny Appleseed," tickles the funnybone every time! The pun-filled adventures of "Don the Duck" leave audiences of all ages groaning and grinning with laughter.
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!
Joe is known as the fastest draw in the east.
Each year, Joe goes through 150 markers and gives away thousands of drawings.
Joe is left-handed.
Joe has performed at festivals and other venues since the age of 15.
During 2003 Joe had over 300 performances, visiting over 30,000 children, telling 700 stories, and drawing over 5000 pictures!
If you were to stretch out the lines in all those drawings, one years worth would stretch over 6 miles!
Joe started working as a freelance cartoonist at the age of 14, when he obtained his first copyright for one of his cartoon characters "JJ Bear".
Joe is a master maze-maker and has created mazes dubbed "The World's Most Difficult" — one of which is in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum collection.
Joe has created an award winning ballet dancing chicken screen saver.
Joe was the very first resident cartoonist of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif.
Some of Joe's cartooning credits include designing a map for Presidential Canidate/Comedian Pat Paulsen and, designing a logo for a Goat Farm in Slovenia.
Joe's comic strip "Aesop's Foibles" appears worldwide in Storytelling Magazine.
Joe released a CD titled Top Drawer Tales in 2004.
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Contact Joe at:
You can get in touch with Joe by email, phone or mail. Kids who want to say hi should email or send letters only. Please do not call. Phone number is for grown ups only. Send email to Joewos@onceuponatoon.com
For info on booking Once Upon a Toon or other Joe Wos programs, call Joe at
(412) 760-1896
Joe Wos
Once Upon a Toon
235 Garlow Drive
Penn Hills PA 15235
Joewos@onceuponatoon.com
http://www.onceuponatoon.com/
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• Yvonne Healy (Michigan) — The People-Eating Monster
Using simply voice, gesture and story, Yvonne invites you into the theater of your own imagination. Raised in the Irish oral tradition she grew up to act on New York’s stage and screen. Multicultural mythology, a love of language, and her outrageous family lured her back to storytelling.
Born in England to Irish parents, Yvonne immigrated with her family to the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania. Inherited wanderlust inspired Yvonne to leave that small town for Swarthmore College, Tufts University and eventual life as a professional actress in the Big Apple. The birth of her daughters re-opened her heart to storytelling where she thrives on the deep sense of connection between audience and storyteller.
32 years of storytelling, professional acting, and comic improvising infuse Yvonne's lively teaching style with theatre games and interactive approaches. Children, teens and adults develop communication skills while enhancing literacy development in “Write Out Loud, "Kindred Keepsakes”, “ActUP!” and other dynamic residencies and workshops.
Yvonne gives thanks for her good fortune by volunteering as Managing Editor for MI Story: Michigan's Storytelling Publication, webmaster www.MichiganStorytelling.com and Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild, Northlands Storytelling Network Board of Directors, producing Detroit Story League Storytelling Festival, State Liaison for National Storytelling Network and participating & mentoring actively in the Detroit Story League, National Storytelling Network, and Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild. This Swarthmore College graduate and Kripalu Yoga teacher volunteers frequently at her children’s schools and church, regularly scrubs pots in homeless shelters and enjoys wedded bliss with the same wonderful man since 1984.
Honors
• Gold Award, Best DVD, "Good Character," Creative Child Magazine 2006
• Storyteller of the Year Finalist 2004
• Gold Award, Best Spoken Word Recording, Gold Award, Children's Music Organization, 2003
• Keeper of the Story, Professional Award, America's Story Festival, Tennessee, 2003
• Gold Award, Best Audio Children’s Resource: Storytelling, Gold Award, National Parenting Publications NAPPA, 2002
• "The Healy Cross" selected as only American author, Brandon Books' anthology From the Heart of Ireland, 2003
Highlights - Performances & Workshops for:
• Michigan Arts & Humanities Touring Program (1999-present)
• Detroit Institute of Art (1999-present)
• National Storytelling Fringe, PA
• Chicago Cultural Center, IL
• Library of Michigan
• America's Story Festival, TN
• Sharing the Fire Concert, NH
• National Storytelling Network Regional Concert, IL
• Jackson StoryFest
• Michigan Story Festival
• Mohegan Colony Storytelling Festival, NY
• Ark Storytelling Festival
• Northlands Concerts, WI
• Visiting Artist in University of Michigan’s At-Risk Youth project Tellin’ It, 2000-present
• National Storytelling Network & SIG Conferences
• Michigan Reading Association Conferences
• Ohio Order for Preservation of Storytelling Conferences, OH
• Illinois Reading Council Annual Conference, IL
• Michigan Chautauqua History Project
• VASA - Virginia Storytellers Association Conference
• Festival of Faith & Writing (Calvin College)
• Michigan Wolf Trap Early Childhood Education
• performances & residencies in:
• Michigan
• Colorado
• Wisconsin
• Indiana
• California
• Ohio
• Illinois
• Virginia
• New York
• for Children, Adults, Teens, College Students, Families at:
• conferences
• schools
• museums
• festivals
• universities
• corporations
• libraries
Contact Yvonne at:
contact@YHealy.com
http://www.yhealy.com/index.htm
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• Priscilla Howe (Kansas) — The Lazy Young Woman
Here's what Priscilla has to say on her website at
http://www.priscillahowe.com/index.htm
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.
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Here's Priscilla's blog:
http://storytellingnotes.blogspot.com/
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Priscilla's story Fox and Hedgehog is found on this CD:
Chickens! And Other Stories for Young Children
Hear the story "The Gunniwolf" when you click on this web page. We use Windows Media.
http://shop.1asecure.com/prod.cfm?ProdID=251843&StID=5957
About this CD:
Some favorite funny and a few slightly scary folktales for kids age 4 and up, with plenty of audience commentary.
"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.
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Playlist:
1. Chickens!
2. At Midnight
3. Poule and Blatte
4. Fox and Hedgehog
5. Cheep and Cackle
6. Cat and Mouse
7. The Lazy Young Woman
8. Ti Jean and the Donkey’s Egg
9. The Gunniwolf
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.
http://shop.1asecure.com/index.cfm?DeptNo=14&StID=5957&afid=99
Priscilla has two other CDs and a DVD at the same site.
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Contact:
Priscilla Howe
347 Elm Street
Lawrence, KS 66044
priscilla@priscillahowe.com
http://www.priscillahowe.com/index.htm
(785) 832-1294
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• Elaine Stanley — A Tale of Tails
Storyteller, Weaver of Stories for Head, Heart and Soul
Elaine brings the gifts of story alive with her enthusiasm and energy, This Storyteller for all ages delights in our differences and brings us together to share in the oral tradition of fables, fairy tales, legends, folktales and original stories.
Having fun with stories.
Elaine sparks the imagination, fans the embers of curiosity, which brings flame to a desire for learning, advenrure, answers, and more....
Having fun while learning can create a deep thirst in an inquisitive and enjoyable quest for knowledge. Stories from around the world and across the ages, Elaine tells multicultural, cross-cultural, educational, healing and just plain fun stories!
Elaine enhances her stories with the use of:
- American Sign Language
- Facial expression
- Body Language
- Various voices and accents.
- Has a certificate in storytelling from Dominican College
Contact Information:
Elaine Stanley
436 Hudson Street
Oakland, California 94618
Country: USA
Favorite Stories CD available at:
http://shop.1asecure.com/index.cfm?StID=5957&DeptNo=27
Hear Senor Coyote y Los Perros told by Elaine at:
http://www.storyteller.net/stories/audio
Phone: (510)597-0416
estanley13@earthlink.net
http://www.storyteller.net/tellers/estanley
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