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.
Engineer: Brodie Giles, KSVY
PROGRAM 9:
Nov 19 - Bards From the Bay! The Sequel...
Personal Tales...
Told by members of SAAC - Storytelling Association of Alta, California
San Francisco Bay Area
Elaine Stanley
(How I Learned Honesty)
Jean Ellisen
(Moving to the Country)
Sally Holzman
(My First Birthday Party)
Laurie Pines
(The Baker and the Farmer; Grandma Martha and Her Cookie Press)
Dave Chittenden
(Burma Shave)
Minnie Bateman
(War Bride)
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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/
Have a question, comment or suggestion for us? saac@storysaac.org!
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Personal Tales...
Told by members of SAAC - Storytelling Association of Alta, California
Guest tellers...
• Elaine Stanley — How I Learned Honesty
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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• Jean Ellisen — Moving to the Country
Berkeley resident, Jean Ellisen is a graduate of the Certificate in Storytelling Program at Dominican Unversity. She has tenure as a storyteller, trainer, mentor and member of the steering committee for the corps of storytellers at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. She has told stories to young and old alike in libraries, bookstores, hospitals, schools, campfires, storytelling festivals, and National Storytelling Network conferences in the Western United States. She has conducted storytelling workshops for primary grade teachers in the South Pacific where she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
Jean is currently serving as a board member of the Storytelling Association of Alta California (SAAC), and co-chair of the Bay Area Storytelling Festival (BASF) Committee. Her passion is helping others find their own voice through storytelling.
Contact Jean at:
1431 Milvia Street
Berkeley, California 94709-1985
Phone: 510-527-1141
jellisen@earthlink.net
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• Sally Holzman — My First Birthday Party
Retirement came as it must come. What to do with all that unscheduled time? Sally saw an ad in the Contra Costa Times. It said, "Become a storyteller, join Stagebridge." So she did and now she is busy telling stories of her childhood in schools, for adult groups and running the Tale Spinners story swap group. Free time? What's that!
Contact:
SHol1614@aol.com
• Orinda - Contra Costa Tale Spinners meet 4th Thursdays, Orinda Public Library, 24 Orinda Way, 7:00-9:00 p.m.; (meets 3rd Thursday, but no 2006 November or December swap). Walking distance from BART (or a pickup from the station can be arranged). Directions, questions, contact Sally Holzman (925) 372-7036.
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• Laurie Pines — The Baker and the Farmer; Grandma Martha and Her Cookie Press
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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• Dave Chittenden, Orange, CA — Burma Shave
Dave was trained to be a chemical engineer, and tried to be one for many years before discovering that he was actually a storyteller. In 1989 he joined Toastmasters and began to complete the basic Toast-masters program. For reasons that are still unclear, every speech he gave turned out to be a story. Cynthia Callard heard Dave tell and suggested that he join the South Coast Storytellers Guild. The Guild storytellers helped Dave to hone his stories and provided storytelling venues. The Guild members also provided a community where stories were important and accepted. Get information about the Guild at
http://www.storyguild.com
Quotes from Dave:
"Tall tales are just my kind of story, I guess. The way they turn out. You know, these are original stories; they're not from somebody else. Sometimes you think about an adventure of some kind that you had and you find that it wasn't really as interesting or as amusing as it should have been, so you think you'll change it and make it more interesting, and the audience seems to like it. Do I exaggerate? Oh, my!"
"All of my stories are true, but some of them are more true than others. They are true to life, but maybe not as true to the experience that I've had."
Dave's CD is entitled Outdoor Adventures of My Youth
Stories on the CD:
Karol, Karol with a K
Climbing the Mesa
White Waters of the Peshtigo
Ski Jump
The Umbazookis Portage
The 4000 Foot Club
The Pisquatica River Disaster
The Dispensable Man
A Real Southern Gentleman
O'Malley, A Real American Hero
The Ugliest Man of 1955
Powder Blue
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Contact info:
Dave Chittenden
2218 E. Parkside Avenue
Orange, CA 92867-4038
dchittenden@socal.rr.com
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• Minnie Bateman — War Bride
Minnie Bateman was a storyteller with Stagebridge Theatre from 1994 until her death in 2004. A lifetime resident of Oakland and Berkeley she took on the persona of "Miss Mini Bee" to tell stories in local schools. Her tales recounted what life was like during the war, how she overcame dyslexia, became a war bride, raised five children on her own, and how the leprechauns used to visit her. She spearheaded Stagebridge's "Grandparent Tales Writing Contest" and encouraged children to write stories about their grandparents. In 2003 she was inducted into the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame to honor her storytelling work.
Information about Stagebridge Theatre:
Oakland, CA
Since 1978, Stagebridge Theatre Company has been using the arts to bridge the generations. What began as a drama class at a senior center, grew into a production company where original plays were created and presented to senior groups and school children. Positive images of older adults are portrayed through theatre classes, workshops, school programs and public performances.
Stagebridge continues to create original plays about aging, classes for older adults and produces a popular storytelling program in local elementary schools. Today, the company is comprised of more than 100 adults whose average age is 70. Their programs reach more than 30,000 people a year throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Since 1978, Stagebridge's mission has been to include older people in theater and to use performance as a means of bridging generations. Storybridge, its intergenerational arts and literacy project, enables low-income older adults and at-risk children to interact and learn through storytelling programs like "Grandparents' Tales" and "Senior Storytellers in the Schools." Stagebridge also coordinates classes in acting, improv, storytelling, and scene study, as well as performances of original plays about aging for individuals in schools, rest homes, hospitals, libraries, senior centers, and theaters. Its quarterly newsletter currently reaches 3,000 subscribers.
Contact:
The Stagebridge Theater
2501 Harrison Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice: 510.444.4755
Fax: 510.444.4821
info@stagebridge.org
http://www.stagebridge.org
Stuart Kandell, Founder
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