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Talespinner August – September 2010 The Newsletter of the Story Circle of the Capital District Editor and Publisher: Claire Nolan 11 Norwood Street Albany, NY 12203 (518) 209-6477 E-mail: cbnolou@yahoo.com Visit our web site at www.story-circle.org
"September twenty-second,
Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, Story Circle Business News
Meetings 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. are at the William K. Sanford Public Library (Colonie) and 6:15 to 9:00 p.m. at the Guilderland Library (GPL). At GPL we will have a topic for panel/roundtable discussion. Upcoming Meetings: August 18 6:15 pm at Guilderland: Louise Koenig Topic: Story Telling and Listening with the Emphasis on the latter! (How listening intently helped me.) Story Telling is a way of Communicating and the part that listening plays in Story Telling. Upcoming Meeting - Tuesday September 21, Annual Anniversary Dinner at Blu Stone Bistro 5:30 The Blue Stone Bistro is located at 661 Albany Shaker Road, Albany NY 12111. Call (458-1781) or e-mail Dee Wind at we_tell@verizon.net for more information and to make a reservation. Meeting at Colonie Library after dinner at 7:00 pm. Meeting
Notes: June 15, 2010 Story Circle Meeting: Facilitator Carol Connolly Listener: David Ross, Carol Connolly and Don Darmer Meeting Notes: July 20 2010 Circle Meeting: Facilitator: Kate Dudding Adam
Hoffman - Shoes
Danced to Pieces - German Folk Tale (Grimms)
Did you Know? Dues are STILL a bargain at $10.00 per year. Please use the form on Page 8.
Story
Circle Meeting Cancellation Policy: Use the following guidelines to cancel a
meeting or to check on a scheduled meeting: It is up to the facilitator to decide to cancel a
meeting. The facilitator may consult with Carol Connolly or Kate
Dudding. If the facilitator decides to cancel a meeting: 1) Send out an
e-mail message via the Story Circle listserv (or ask Carol Connolly or Kate
Dudding to do it) and 2) Notify the library. Ongoing Events Story by Story is our weekly TV show; tune in on Sunday nights at 8:30 and Tuesday afternoons at 1:00 on Schenectady Public Access TV, Channel 16. Children
at the Well
(CATW): Interfaith Youth Storytelling Group. http://www.interfaithstory.org/children-at-the-well.shtml.
Find them on Facebook! September 13 with featured teller Betty McCanty. Mark your calendars. Prepare for belly laughs and other wonderful side-effects of Betty’s storytelling. Caffé Lena. 47 Phila Street Saratoga Springs 12866 (518) 583-0022. 6:45; telling from 7 until 9 pm. Adirondack Storytelling Guild – Contact Fran Yardley franstory@gmail.com. Interfaith
Story Circle
Listeners
always welcome. http://www.interfaithstory.org/events.shtml Albany Open Mic - Dates and Location TBD - We are looking for storytellers and listeners and a location for an Open Mic in Albany – call Claire at 209-6477 or e-mail cbnolou@yahoo.com if you are interested. Family Programs August 1 Sunday 6:00 pm Eshu Bumpus “Stories for Family Fun” Traditional Folk Tales mostly from Africa. At the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site 129 Schoharie Street Fort Hunter NY 12069. Bring Lawn Chairs. Rain or Shine! (518) 843-5151. Free August 4 Thursday 10:00 a.m. “Dive into Reading!” Takes ‘n Tunes sponsored by Dolgeville-Manheim Library, Town Hall Community Room. Free August 6 Friday 2:00 p.m. Tales 'n Tunes - Dewitt Community Library, Dewitt, NY. Free August 7 Saturday 7:00 pm “The Mountains are Calling” at Fowler Camp and Retreat Center. Benefit Concert. Fenimore Hall, Pelcher Road, Camp Fowler. An Adirondack evening of story and song featuring storyteller Kent Busman and singer/songwriter Scott Adams. 518-548-6524 August 8 Sunday 6:00 pm Niall de Burca “Ancestors’ Irish Tales”: Stories from the Irish Imagination. At the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site 129 Schoharie Street Fort Hunter NY 12069. Bring Lawn Chairs. Rain or Shine! (518) 843-5151. Free August
11 Wednesday 7:00 pm. Indian
Lake Library. "Family Storytelling: Telling Your Story" with Kent
Busman. Pelon
Road, Indian Lake, NY 12842 518-648-5444. Free August
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Saturday 10:00 am – 10:30 pm Mohegan Colony’s 10th Annual Storytelling / Music Festival
Event Workshop:
10:00 am - Noon with The Storycrafters. Performances from 12:30 pm. -
10:30 pm. How can you go wrong with storytellers like Michael Parent, Carol
Birch, The Storycrafters, Johnathan Kruk and more? Let's make
this a fabulous 10th Anniversary for the festival. Location: 99 Baron de Hirsch
Rd, Crompond, NY 10517. For more details go to
http://www.storycircleatproctors.org/hv/mohegan/ or email Judith Heineman at
juhestories@aol.com Phone: 312-925-0439 August
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Tuesday 6:30 pm. Frank Lee Speaking at the Stephentown Memorial Library 472 NY
State Route 43 in Stephentown, NY. The program is free and open to the public.
Phone: 518.733.5750.
Free August 29 Sunday 6:00 pm “It Happened Right Here!”: From Paul Bunyan passing through, to Tories getting out to adventurers settling in: Stories from New York State- fact, fiction and fancy. With Nancy Payne at the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site 129 Schoharie Street Fort Hunter NY 12069. Bring Lawn Chairs. Rain or Shine! (518) 843-5151. $10.00 September 4 Saturday 6:30 pm Campfire Storytelling at Thacher Nature Center. Join us around the campfire for ‘end of summer’ tales with our favorite storyteller, Claire Nolan. S’mores fixins will be provided. Suggested donation is $1 per person. 87 Nature Center Way, Voorheesville, NY 12186. Please register by calling 872-0800. September 5 HOOLEY ON THE HUDSON Irish Festival in Kingston NY. On the SPOKEN WORD STAGE: storytellers Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi at 1:30 pm, The Storycrafters at 2:45 pm, Karen Pillsworth at 4:00 pm and Claire Nolan at 5:15 pm. For more information and a comprehensive schedule go to http://www.ulsteraoh.com/ September 11 Saturday 10:30 – 11:30 am Mami Gillard and Maggie Whelan at the Kingston Farmers Market 328 Wall Street Kingston, NY info@kingstonfarmersmarket.org http://www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org/index.html Free
Adult Programs July 28 Wednesday 7:30 – 9:00 pm Summer Storytelling-Vespers Series “Stories of Portraits in a Family Album” with Claire Nolan and Dee Lee. The Boght Arts Center “Where art & spirit converge” 583 Boght Road, Cohoes, NY 12047 518-785-ARTS http://www.boghtarts.org/ $10.00 August 4 Wednesday 7:30 – 9:00 pm Summer Storytelling-Vespers Series “Portraits of Women: Stories of people who made a difference” with Nancy Marie Payne and Mary Murphy: The Boght Arts Center “Where art & spirit converge” 583 Boght Road, Cohoes, NY 12047 518-785-ARTS http://www.boghtarts.org/ $10.00 August 15 Sunday 6:00 pm Onawumi Jean Moss “Precious Memories: Stories of Love and life, Then and Now” at the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, 129 Schoharie Street Fort Hunter NY 12069 (518) 843-5151. Free August 22 Sunday 6:00 pm Judith Black “That Fading Scent: A seditious Comedy about Women and Aging”. At the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, 129 Schoharie Street Fort Hunter NY 12069. Bring Lawn Chairs. Rain or Shine! (518) 843-5151 September 12 Sunday 5:00 pm. Elizabeth Ellis in "Stories From the Heart of the Matter." Story Sunday at the Glen Sanders Mansion, 1 Glen Avenue, Scotia ($27 for newcomers to Story Sundays, $30 for those who have come before --includes a 3 course dinner with choice of entree, coffee/tea, tax and tip). Reservations: (518) 384-1700 or e-mail sc@katedudding.com September 26 Saturday 2:00 Word Plays. Performers and program to be announced. In the Fenimore Gallery at Proctors Theater 432 State St. Schenectady NY 12305. $16.00. Tickets at the Proctor’s Box Office: http://www.proctors.org/ Phone: (518) 346-6204 Workshops for Storytellers July
31 Saturday
10:30 am – 1:00 pm (Lunch will be served) “My Story, My Journey, My
Happiness”. A workshop on the Four Faces of Woman. The ‘Four Faces’ show
us the stages of conscious understanding and identity women can go through in
their lives. This workshop will help each woman focus on her own story and
strengths. You will experience understanding and choice on your personal
journey towards greater empowerment. August
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Saturday 1:30 - 4:30 THE TECHNIQUES OF TELLING workshop
with Judith Black - open to anyone in Story Circle. During this
workshop we will play with and stretch all of your potential expressive assets
for making a story you love come alive. From dramatic use of your voice,
an expressive body, an imagination that creates images in thin air, to dancing
fingers, participants will play with techniques. Ultimately, you will emerge
with a broader palette of expressive tools to choose from in your storytelling.
TO RESERVE A PLACE For The Techniques of Telling workshop, please send a
check for $10 made out to Story Circle, by August 5 to Kate Dudding, 8
Sandalwood Drive, Clifton Park, NY 12065-2700. Elizabeth is a versatile and riveting teller of Appalachian and Texas tales and stories of heroic American women, though her personal stories are arguably her best. In her 25 year career as a storyteller, Elizabeth's journey has taken her from her local library to as far away as New Zealand. From Judith Black’s Website Judith Black will perform on Sunday August 22 at the Schoharie Crossings State Historic Site. On Saturday she will give a workshop: The Techniques of Telling. Judith is a performer, not to be missed: “Judith Black should be sought after by one and all for her wisdom, for her wit, for the risks she takes on stage and for her genuine warmth which she abundantly shares with one and all” (The Jewish Advocate). A quick look at her website www.storiesalive.com will show you a storyteller who, like most of us has many interests and strengths. She has available several intriguing workshop topics, including Techniques for Tellers. Because Judith is performing at an historic site in the Mohawk River Valley (although her program: “That Fading Scent” has absolutely nothing to do with The Schoharie Crossings State Historic Site) for this issue of the Talespinner I decided to highlight one of her History Series Programs. Judith provides comprehensive workshops for historic and environmental interpretation. Judith’s workshops will give interpreters (docents, teachers, historians) assistance in communicating to the public “the wealth of material they have been entrusted with”. As we all know, it is the stories that draw us in and when we go to the museum or an historic site it is the stories we hear and create that bring history to life. In her workshops for interpreters Judith’s goal is to get the audience invested in the experience to increase the knowledge that they bring away with them after the experience. The two Workshops are as follows: (text is taken directly from Judith’s website) A Palette of Possibilities The focal question is: How can you shape your tours so that your visitors have a personal relationship with the characters, episodes, artifacts, and environment that you are sharing? Creating an Investment: Participants will learn to pose questions to visitors of various backgrounds and interests that will enable them to draw upon their own experiences in relating to the history and environment of the park site. Guided Imagery: Drawing visitors into the world of your site via sensory and emotional identification, participants will experience the power and possibilities of guided imagery. This technique can waken peoples' hearts and imaginations to places and issues that only their intellects had previously contemplated. Enlivening Artifacts: There are two ways to approach an artifact or natural resident of an environment. You can tell the story of where it came from and how it got to be 'here.' These are often quite interesting, tracing the roots of people, movements, and our natural resources. There is another possibility. You can imagine telling an objects story from the object’s vantage point! Creating Original Tales Creating original stories based on authentic fact allows the interpreter to integrate their knowledge and objectives into an ancient art form that speaks to the hearts and minds of visitors. History books tell us the 'who' 'what' 'where' and 'when' of an event, place, or era. They often venture a political, economic, social, or philosophical answer to the question 'why.' What they almost never include are the details that make a piece of history into a story. That is the human 'why' and the idiosyncratic human details that elevate an episode from text into the imagination. In this workshop participants will learn how to use historic episodes, era information, characters, and natural environments to weave vital human stories.
Tellabration News What’s New for 2010? Check this out!! Tellabration 2010: Laughing Fits: Stories of Smiles and Surprises Sunday, Nov. 14, 2:00p.m. GE Theatre at Proctors, 432 State Street, Schenectady $12 (discounts for groups and new people and students) 1. Selection Process Live audition: Story Circle members can audition live in September at: (a) The Saratoga Open Mic at Caffe Lena Sept. 13 (FYI featured teller that night is Betty McCanty); or (b) The Story Circle meeting on Tue. Sept 21. People who have told at a previous Tellabration can submit a tape by Sept. 13 to: Kate Dudding, 8 Sandalwood Drive, Clifton Park, NY 12065-2700. 2. Marketing Ideas – it’s all of us making connections A Tellabration flyer is available on-line: www.storycircleatproctors.org/Tell flyer7-22-2010.pdf. (While this is in color, it prints fine on black and white printers too.) Flyers printed on colored paper are also available from Kate Dudding – please contact her and let her know how many you want: 383-4620 or kate@katedudding.com Immediately begin marketing to groups of adults, since groups need time to plan their events. The committee asks all Story Circle members to give a flyer to each adult group they belong to, such as: Senior centers and residences; Groups at places of worship; Red Hat groups; book clubs; friends of libraries; service groups; etc. Ideally, each member of Story Circle will contact five groups. If you are emailing people, you can also refer them to our Tellabration web page: www.storycircleatproctors.org/tellabration.shtml 3.
Things to be decided in August: Photographer Copy Editors Carol Connolly and Don Darmer Emcee
Karen Pillsworth There will be a discussion on the above items via email. If you don’t use email and you have opinions about the above items, please call Kate (518)383-4620 to share your opinions. 4. It’s time to start selling program ads. Ads typically bring in $400 so the more we get, the more library programs can be underwritten. The form to buy an ad is available from Kate and is also on the web site www.storycircleatproctors.org/Ad-Form-7-22-2010.pdf 5. Commit to selling 10 tickets, either by buying 10 tickets at the group rate ticket and reselling them, or referring folks. A full house is a major success for supporting storytelling regionally which is a main Story Circle Among Ourselves Kathleen Gill's book Story Walking the Appalachian Trail has been accepted at the Appalachian Trail museum in Gardners Pennsylvania for inclusion into their library. Looking Ahead October
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Saturday 10:30 – 11:30 am Betty Cassidy at the Kingston Farmers Market
328 Wall Street Kingston, NY info@kingstonfarmersmarket.org
http://www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org/index.html
See You Next Time
All meetings are held from 7 to 9 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday or Wednesday of the month alternating between Tuesdays in odd numbered months at the William K. Sanford Library and Wednesdays in even numbered months at the Guilderland Public Library. DIRECTIONS: The Guilderland Public Library is located at 2228 Western Avenue, Guilderland, 1/2 mile west of Rte. 155 on the south side of Western Avenue. (August 18). The William K. Sanford Library is located at 629 Albany Shaker Road, just off Northway Exit 4, and 1/4 mile east of the intersection of Wolf Road and Albany Shaker Road on the left side. (September 21) *****************************************************************************
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