New Storytelling Radio Program
KSVY-FM 91.3, Sonoma, CA
http://www.ksvy.org
Sundays, 5-6 pm Pacific time (adjust for your time zone)
Live audio streaming: Go to the KSVY website. In the upper
right-hand corner, click on High or Low Speed and find
yourself listening to the live program.
Or access the archives later and download.
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.
PROGRAM 8:
Nov 12 - Bards From the Bay!
Tales From Around the World...
Told by members of SAAC - Storytelling Association of Alta, California
San Francisco Bay Area
Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy
(Teeny Tiny and the Witch Woman)
Susan Ford
(The Man Who Had a Tree Growing
Out of the Top of His Head
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Kate Frankel
(Uncle Bouki Rents a Horse)
Jacqueline Lynaugh
(Bedd Gellert)
Laurie Pines
(Archimedes and Germain)
Michael Katz
(Brother Sun, Brother Moon and the Pretty Girl)
Cathryn Fairlee
(The Perfect Dragon)
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SAAC - Storytelling Association of Alta, California; San Francisco Bay Area
SAAC is the Storytelling Association of Alta California, a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting storytelling as a living art form.
SAAC aims to be a regional voice for story listeners and storytellers in California, to remind the local and national community of the power and the joy of storytelling.
SAAC is dedicated to promoting storytelling a living art, to grow and nurture small storytelling groups, to create opportunities for communities to hear storytellers from many cultures, to disseminate information about traditional and contemporary storytelling, and to cultivate storytelling opportunities through networking, training, and education.
Our Story
SAAC grew out of the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, an annual multicultural weekend of storytelling produced entirely by volunteers. The success of the Festival required a formal organization behind it. Discussions were held with festivalgoers, storytellers, and story swapping groups around the San Francisco Bay, there was a consensus that the community of story listeners and storytellers in Northern California wanted a voice. So rather than create a not-for-profit organization solely focused on arts producing, a membership organization was born.
Our Programs
• Storyline, a quarterly newsletter for our members of storytelling events, classes, and resources;
• This Web site, an online resource for the storytelling community;
• The Bay Area Storytelling Festival;
• Serving as an incubator for other storytelling projects such as the California Indian Storytelling Festival
Accomplishments for 2005/2006
• Presented the 20th Bay Area Storytelling Festival in May 2005.
• Began series of benefit storytelling concerts in support of the Bay Area Storytelling Festival.
• Presented the 21st Bay Area Storytelling Festival in May 2006.
Browse our Web site to find storytelling events, classes, workshops, and storytelling festivals in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Looking for a place to tell and hear stories? Check out our swap groups pages for an informal storytelling group near you. (Thanks to the SouthBay Storytellers and Listeners of Los Altos for making this Web site possible!)
SAAC members receive Storyline, a quarterly newsletter of events and resources for the storytelling community in California.
SAAC co-produces the annual Bay Area Storytelling Festival at Kennedy Grove Regional Park in El Sobrante, each May. More info at http://www.bayareastorytelling.org/
COMING EVENTS
Sunday, November 19, 2006, 3 PM
Tellabration!
"A Worldwide Celebration of Storytelling"
Arts First Oakland, 2501 Harrison St. at 27th St., Oakland
Join us for a celebration of storytelling featuring internationally renowned Willie Claflin and Gay Ducey. They'll be joined by Lillian Edwards, Jean Ellisen, Marian Ferrante, Ken Foster, Kate Frankel and Mary Norris. Hosted by Erica Lann-Clark.
Tickets: $10 in advance. $15 at door.
Purchase tickets through Stagebridge or call (510) 444-4750.
Have a question, comment or suggestion for us? saac@storysaac.org!
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Tales From Around the World!
Told by members of SAAC - Storytelling Association of Alta, California
Guest tellers...
• Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy — Teeny Tiny and the Witch Woman
Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy is a storyteller, curriculum consultant and writer in San Francisco, where she has been an artist-in residence in public and private schools for twenty years.
Whether in a one-hour assembly or a long-term residency, storytelling is whole language learning brought to life. A school wide storytelling program is a process rather than a package. Because each school is like a little city, and each class a unique neighborhood, the skill levels, curricula needs and goals differ. After consultation with teachers, classroom programs can be shaped into thematic units that become connective links to geography, social studies, ecology, ethics and values,creative writing,literacy education,English as A Second Language,or theater arts. Storytelling can easily be the oral language component for an established lesson plan.
The oral tradition is our "first literature" world-wide. Both empathy and understanding are encouraged when students join together to hear stories of wonder and wisdom from a multitude of cultures.
Read more...
http://www.olivestoryteller.com/here_comes.html
Still more about Olive:
http://www.olivestoryteller.com/about.html
CD available:
Imagine Your Way Home With Olive
“Imagine you way home with OLIVE” includes the following stories;
The Queen Bee, Mother Holle, and The Seven Ravens, all from The Brothers’ Grimm.
Teeny Tiny and the Witch Woman. A Turkish Folk Tale collected and written by Barbara K. Walker. All rights reserved. Pantheon Books: 1975
A Bed Just So. Retold by Jeanne B. Hardendorff. All rights reserved. Four Winds Press: 1975
Olive’s comments.
The written text of the first three stories can be found in large collections of The Grimm Fairy Tales and each one has been rewritten in many versions that can be found in the children’s picture book section of public libraries.
My retellings have been shaped by lively interaction with audiences of all ages. The main characters are as familiar to me as good friends for whom I have a deep affection. As with any story that has lasted for generations these will be understood differently through the age and experience of each listener.
Barbara K. Walker first heard Teeny Tiny and The Witch Woman in 1967 while she was in Turkey. The teller was a 94 year old grandmother who swore she had heard it from her grandmother. Ms. Walker had the story translated into English and then “let it cook” as stories do until she wrote her version in 1975. With her enthusiastic permission I also “let it cook” for my own retelling. This story can be pretty scary to little children who are both relieved and proud when Teeny Tiny’s wits and courage save the family. Ms. Walker has 38 published works and is a good resourse for Turkish Folk Tales.
The origin of A Bed Just So remains a mystery to me. Ms. Hardendorff’s son Eric said his mother spent a tremendous amount of time in The Library of Congress finding obscure stories which she brought back to life as a librarian and storyteller. Both humorous and a lullaby in spoken word, this story is delightfully smart. Out of print as it is, I am so happy to have the permission to bring this little story to new audiences.
Notes on copyright. The three stories from The Brothers Grimm are in the public domain. If my interpretations remind another storyteller of the riches in these tales, I hope you will pass them on to other audiences with your own unique voices.
However, rights for use of Teeny Tiny and the Witch Woman and A Bed Just So are not mine to share. Copyright permission remains with Ms. Walker and the estate of Jeanne B. Hardendorff.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/olive
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What Others Say About Olive:
Olive’s stories entranced me. Her resonant voice and stunning images animate plots full of life questions and exotic circumstance. The pleasant feeling of being in a world that is both familiar and richly challenging lingers like the memory of a great feast."
Rick Foster, co-author
How We Choose to be Happy
First of all...another GREAT session. The kids will be missing you every Monday. The moment you left, I put on the CD and have not been able to take it out. They have listened to the stories over and over and LOVE listening to you tell them....When it is on, the kids become very quiet and lots of work gets done. It is amazing.
Kristi Martin
Teacher. Second Grade
Meadows Elementary School
Millbrae, CA
As soon as Olive began a story, the inevitable fidgeting of eight and nine-year-olds would come to a halt, and they calmly and attentively took in and experienced these wonderful stories. Next, Olive was able to weave into her performances and subsequent discussions the themes and ideas which we had been grappling with as a class, such as: What are characters; setting, and good endings? What is the difference between a fairy tale and a folk tale? Finally, Olive facilitated an experience for the students and for me which empowered us as storytellers ourselves. In their evaluations of my class, my students said that one week with Olive was their favorite in the quarter.
Karen Heath
Language Arts Teacher
Barre, Vermont
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Articles by Olive:
1) A Fairy Tale Journey Through Critical Care
http://www.healingstory.org/articles/news_spring_7/olive.html
Also:
http://www.olivestoryteller.com/articles.html
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Contact:
Olive Hackett-Shaughnessy
OHStory@aol.com
http://www.olivestoryteller.com/index.html
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• Susan Ford — The Man Who Had a Tree Growing Out of the Top of His Head
San Franciscan Susan Ford is active in the community of Northern California Storytellers and is the Director of the Lake Tahoe Storytelling Festival. A storyteller herself, Susan moves fluidly in and out of characters while weaving magical folk tales, Celtic Myths, and original stories of transformation. Her choice of unique stories blends the personal with the mythological. Susan also collects and performs oral histories.
Contact:
suford@earthlink.net
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• Kate Frankel — Uncle Bouki Rents a Horse
Kate is the editor and publisher of Storyline, which is now the newsletter of the Storytelling Association of Alta California. However, Storyline predates SAAC. In its infancy, Storyline was the primary way storytellers kept up on what was happening in the local storytelling community. Kate was instrumental in providing a valuable connection for those who needed a local connection to the storytelling community. Kate is currently involved in an effort to create a statewide storytelling organization in California.
Kate was born in the Year of the Tiger. She spent near 20 years taming the wild life -- the students - with her stories .. as a librarian in Berkeley elementary school libraries, and then nearly another 20 spreading her stories and writing about stories, more widely for audiences of all ages.
Kate has been storytelling all her life, but only recently, working to recreate her gradual awareness of the social problems that led to the Civil Rights movement, has she discovered the exciting possibilities of personal stories. She grew up in San Francisco in the 30s, in a white community with no awareness of blacks, w/discrimination against "foreigners"--(Chinese, etc.) She'll share with you her Learning Curve, from a San Francisco childhood with no awareness of discrimination, to working in Harlem, experience in the South, and back to Berkeley in the 50's before Berkeley was ... "Berkeley."
Contact:
katefrankel@earthlink.net
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• Jacqueline Lynaugh — Bedd Gellert
Jacqueline Lynaugh has been a professional musician and storyteller since 1980. She has played
guitar since the age of 4 and began performing music at the age of 11. Jacqueline studied acting and music at Montclair College in New Jersey, where she studied with Gerard Schwartz, current conductor of the Seattle Symphony. She received training for the Clarsach, or Gaelic Harp, from Ann Heymann, Violaine Mayor of Hent Telenn Breizh, and Margie Butler of Golden Bough.
For further information on Gaelic harps, go to
http://www.clarsach.net
She did her acting apprenticeship at the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival in California. She was taught to storytell for the New Jersey Library System by Judith Rovenger, who later became head of children's services for the Westchester Library System in New York. Jacqueline is a member of SAAC (The Storytelling Association of Alta California). Jacqueline has also taught for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Drama and Dance Division, Oakland Parks and Recreation, Oakland Children's Fairyland, the Fort Mason Center for the Arts Young Performers Theatre, and the LEAP Artist in the Schools program. Jacqueline has performed and sung at private parties, company parties, schools, and amusement parks on the East and West Coasts as well recently performing for several private engagements in Europe. Click here to read more about her research trip in Europe.
The costumed characters that she performs as include (click on a fairy):
Lady Emerald - http://www.musicalfolklore.freeservers.com/le.htm
The Blue Fairy Storyteller - http://www.musicalfolklore.freeservers.com/bf.htm
Mother Goose By Request - http://www.musicalfolklore.freeservers.com/mg.htm
The Snow Queen - http://www.musicalfolklore.freeservers.com/sq.htm
Mary Poppins - http://www.musicalfolklore.freeservers.com/mp.htm
CD Release - http://www.musicalfolklore.freeservers.com/cd/cdrelease.htm
Contact Jacqueline at:
bluefairystoryteller@yahoo.com
Jacqueline also teaches harp lessons:
http://musicalfolklore.freeservers.com/index.htm
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• Laurie Pines — Archimedes and Germain
Laurie has been telling stories to seniors, adults, juniors, sophomores and freshmen throughout the San Francisco Bay and Washington, DC areas for over 10 years. Her stories often transport her audiences to foreign lands, through near-by histories, and along winding roads that twist and turn.
Laurie has a BA in Mathematics (junior year Florence, Italy), MA in Mathematical Education and supplemental teaching certification in drama. She went directly from university into the Peace Corps, where she served two terms, the first in the Philippines and the second in Tanzania, East Africa.
Upon returning to the US, Laurie was tricked, by her mother, to enter the quickly emerging computer science industry where she worked for 24 years for computer manufactures on both coasts. It was at the end of this career that she discovered the art of storytelling…and became a high school teacher of mathematics, where she found an enthusiastic and ready audience both for her love of mathematics and her love of stories.
During the academic year, 2002-2003, Laurie was awarded an Albert Einstein Distinguished EducatorsFellowship. As an Einstein Fellow she worked full-time in the US Senate on education legislation and part-time in storytelling and theater set design. Currently, Laurie is teaching mathematics at Homestead High School in Cupertino, CA.
Laurie is currently the Chair of the Storytelling Association of Alta California, SAAC, an organization with the mission to support and spread the art of storytelling within northern California and beyond.
Laurie has produced 2 CDs: Stories for All Occasions and Ancient Tales in Modern Times. They are both available by emailing Laurie at:
lpines@att.net.
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• Michael Katz — Brother Sun, Brother Moon and the Pretty Girl
Michael has been a storyteller since 1984 and has been featured at such illustrious locations as the openings of both the Los Angeles Getty Center and the Disney Concert Hall. He is one of the founding members of the national touring theatre company BOXTALES, and was the founding Artistic Director for the Flying Leap Storytelling Festival in Solvang, California.
What People Say About Michael's Performances
"Michael Katz launched into his first tale, silence reigned, Katz is a versatile performer and wonderful storyteller.
-- Los Angeles Times
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"He has such a gift for telling tales and reeling you into the story, the kids were transfixed"
-- S.B. Independent
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"Michael works magic with kids ... a magical smile"
-- Melba Jones, Director
San Juan Capistrano Storytelling Festival
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"Thank you for the wonderful program ...... your storytelling was fantastic ........ Rarely have we seen such small children riveted by a storytelling performance. We look forward to another one of your fabulous programs in the future."
-- Diane Olivo, Children's Librarian
Children's Literature Department Los Angeles Library
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"Going on a Grimms tale with Michael is a delicious tour of portrait, landscape & sound."
-- Angela Lloyd, Storyteller
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"Your story of your grandfather, so tenderly introduced & so exquisitely crafted and told."
-- Fran Freudenberger, Storyteller
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"....your radio show makes cleaning our room O.K."
-- Mimosa Andre, Katz Pajamas Listener
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CD available:
Storytelling CD
Far Away and Close to Home
Parents' Choice Silver Honor
http://www.storytellermichael.com/recordings.htm
A CD of magical and mystical tales from around the world told by Michael Katz with musical accompaniment by Michael Andrews, Stu Brotman, Carrie Lauer, Jeff Mills, Luis Perez, and Ed Rockett.
"Delivered with clarity, suspense and personality, the four stories on this CD will enchant young listeners with thought-provoking messages about how to get along with others."
-- Dr. Flora Joy
Parents' Choice Foundation
"Thank you for your amazing, incredible CD… We listen to it all of the time…Your beautiful voice, the music, your command of different languages. My kids and I are enjoying it so much! There are so many magical moments in each story. It is one of the best storytelling tapes I've ever heard!"
-- Karen Golden, Professional Storyteller & Parent
Far Away and Close to Home received the Fall 2005 Parents Choice Silver Honor from the The Parents' Choice Foundation.
Identifying the best products for children of different ages, backgrounds, skills, and interests, the Parents’ Choice Awards are given to products that meet and exceed standards set by educators, scientists, performing artists, librarians, parents, and yes, kids themselves.
Only 3 awards were given this year in the Audio-Storytelling category -- from recordings submitted throughout the nation. Of the 3, Far Away and Close to Home received the highest honor.
Far Away and Close to Home - February 2005
Total time: 45:40; Recommended ages 6-100+
• Ishiusu
(The Millstone/ Japan) 13:42
• Garment for the Moon
(Jewish/ Eastern Europe) 13:50
• Brother Sun, Brother Moon, and the Pretty Girl
(Akamba Tribe/ Kenya) 8:34
• The Gift
(Aztec/ Mexico) 9:18
Order at:
http://www.storytellermichael.com/recordings.htm
Contact Michael at:
http://www.storytellermichael.com/index.html
mkatzstory@yahoo.com
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• Cathryn Fairlee — Perfect Dragon
Once Upon a Story...
In the high and far off times...
There was a bard, a minstrel, a storyteller
named Cathryn Fairlee.
She traveled the globe gathering myths, legends,
folk & fairy tales directly from the folk.
For the past twenty years she has delighted and
enlightened adults and children with these amazing tales.
Taste the wisdom treasured for hundreds and thousands of years,
kept fresh by grandparent telling grandchild, storyteller telling village.
Cathryn is available to perform, speak or teach at festivals, libraries, conferences, schools, events,
large or small.
"To speak is to sow. To listen is to reap." - Turkish Proverb
Once Upon a Biography...
Just the facts:
• Performed nationally and internationally as a storyteller since 1982
• Thirteen years as a Middle School Librarian
• Taught storytelling workshops to students and adults
• Founding member of The Storytellers Guild of Sonoma County
• Produced and hosted Story Swap on public radio for 3 years
• Wrote and recieved community grants for teaching storytelling
• Organized 2 years of free storytelling at Santa Rosa Farmers Market
• Board member of Storytelling Association of Alta California
• Guest editor of SAAC newsletter, Storyline
• Received Pegasus Award for her story recording, Cathryn Tells All
• Currently working on a Master's Degree in Oral History
• For a list of her recent performances, see her Tour Schedule page...
The Legend of Cathryn*Tells*All
Once upon a time, little Cathryn, a fifth generation Californian, was born. She was raised by her parents,the king and queen, in the mysterious foggy redwoods of Mendocino County. The king liked to sing and perform and the queen liked to write and found humor in everything. The whole family, including an annoying little sister, Princess Red, and a pesty little brother, Prince Blue, loved to travel and so Cathryn learned to enjoy these things too.
Cathryn grew up and left her foggy kingdom to battle dragons at San Jose State University and went on a quest to China to study dragons close up. Then she returned to conquer a degree in the History of Art. One day, her magic carpet was whisked up by a tornado and after much twirling, Cathryn landed in the romantic wine country of Healdsburg, the town where she was born. "There is no place like home..."
One day, Cathryn said, "When I grow up, I want to be a storyteller." Then a Handsome Prince appeared and said, "You don't have to grow up, my dear. You can tell stories until you are 99 and never grow up!" Naturally, Cathryn fell in love with him. Together, they fly around the world on their magic carpet sharing stories.
Like all good legends, this one has a happy ending. Cathryn still collects and tells tales polished by centuries of telling. She performs at festivals, conferences, private parties, schools, libraries, senior centers and cemeteries and leaves her audiences listening happily ever after. And she still has no intention of growing up.
CD available (another coming soon!):
Cathryn Tells All
Traditional tales from around the world - for listeners age 7 to 107.
This recording won the Pegasus Award for inspiring student tellers!
Stories:
Ali Cogia (Arabian), a young boy judges a difficult case; Lion's Whisker (Ethiopian), a young stepmother learns patience; The Cave (Sioux), an old woman beads a buffalo robe; Perfect Dragon (Chinese), the emperor finds perfection; Hexed (Southern US), three boys brave the swamp; Wise Woman (Mexican), a greedy priest is foiled; Headly Koo (English), a cheerful old woman makes an unusual friend.
Order at:
http://www.sonic.net/~cfair/recordings.html
Contact Cathryn at:
http://www.sonic.net/~cfair/
cfair@monitor.net
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