Podcasts by The Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf
A national conversation from all perspectives on the profession of storytelling with children. Serving all members of the storytelling with children portion of the storytelling movement. Including presenters, listeners, festival organizers, administrators, educators, parents, and storytellers.
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Interview #009 Storytelling in camp settings - with three camp directors. from 2022-03-04T01:29:50.160057
Stories are a natural for camps. Camps offers an opportunity to create a meaningful and memorable connection to the outdoor environment. Educational research suggests that this connection to the ou...
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Interview #005 Doug Lipman - Marketing outside of the storytelling community. from 2022-03-04T01:29:50.082489
The Truth About Marketing. Most of the mass marketing we see around us is probably not good marketing - and it’s certainly nothing like what would make sense for a storyteller.
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Interview #004 Lyn Ford - Breaking into Storytelling. from 2022-03-04T01:29:50.081385
Lyn Ford says that breaking into storytelling isn’t quite the description that fits the beginnings of her career. It was more like leaping off the edge of a cliff, with all the materials to build a...
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Interview #122 Odds Bodkin – Storytelling in the Bardic Tradition. from 2011-10-27T11:00
The New York Times dubbed him "a consummate storyteller" while TIMEOUT New York writes, "Master Storyteller Odds Bodkin is the talk of the town with his remarkable one-man Art of the Tale."
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Interview #120 Diane Wolkstein – Connecting with Audiences, Other Cultures and Ourselves from 2011-05-17T12:00
iane Wolkstein is also the award–winning author of 23 books, including The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales and Inanna, Queen of Heaven, and numerous CDs and DVDs.
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Interview #118 Diane Edgecomb – Place Based Nature Storytelling. from 2011-04-01T12:00
In this interview with Eric, I speak about how the various elements of nature mythology can be an enlivening force both for those who hear you tell and for your own journey into this ancient form o...
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Interview #117 Tim Errenta - Bringing Storytelling to the Fringe. from 2011-02-28T16:00
Tim Errenta has performed in Fringe Festivals around the United States using his storytelling who Top Ten Hits from 1349.
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Interview #116 Antonio Rocha Using the Language of the Body in Storytelling. from 2011-02-01T16:00
How does the body without the use of te voice commuicate to an audience?
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Interview #114 Angela Llyod - The Gentle Power of Patience. from 2010-12-21T16:00
Angela Llyod is a California based storyteller who has told at the National Storytelling Festival and at Festivals all over the ountry.
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Interview #113 Octavia Sexton - The Jack Story a Traditional Tale for Everyone. from 2010-12-02T16:00
Octavia Sexton is a traditional storyteller from Kentucky who grewup hearing and telling Jack Stories for as long as she can remember.
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Interview #111 Kathy Collins – Comedian as Storyteller - Storytelling as Comedy. from 2010-10-29T12:00
A discussion on Kathy Collins work as a Comedienne and Storyteller using her persona of Tita to tell stories about the Volcano Goddess of Hawaii.
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Interview #110 Rafe Martin - Zen and the Art of Spiritual Storytelling from 2010-10-20T12:00
Rafe Martin is both a storyteller and a Zen practitioner - a writer of stories and a teacher of the zen tradition.
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Interview #108 Ruth Stotter – Working with Props in Storytelling Performances. from 2010-08-25T12:00
Ruth Stotter has spent years developing hte art of using props and strong in her storytelling performances.
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Interview #107 Laird Schaub - The Application of Story to Group Facilitation and Community Living. from 2010-08-05T15:00
Laird Schaub - excutve director of the Federatin of Intentioanl Communities speaks on how to engage people with in the emotional stories that trap them.
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Interview #106 Michael Reno Harrell on American Folk Music and the Storytelling Community. from 2010-07-07T15:00
Michael Reno Harrell speaks on how the history of Storytelling Revival is connected to the folk music revival.
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Interview #105 Tejumola Ologboni - Walking the Talk with Street Storytelling. from 2010-06-22T15:00
Master storyteller Tejumola Ologboni speaks on Street Storytelling.
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Interview #104 Limor Shiponi - Striding towards Storytelling Mastery from 2010-06-06T12:00
Mastery is an ambiguous word raising the impulse of ownership and recognition, resonating something standing apart while representing a form of wholeness.
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Interview #103 David Ambrose - The International Storytelling Festival of Wales from 2010-05-26T09:00
Brother Wolf speaks with David Ambrose on the foundation and running of the International Storytelling Festival of Wales.
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Interview #099 Emil Wolfgang - Carrying the Pacific Island Storytelling Culture Forward. from 2010-02-24T12:00
Using stories as both a way of sharing knowledge of environment and cultural identity.
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Interview #098 Ben Nind – Storytelling is Essential to Community Health. from 2010-02-10T12:00
We discuss the value of art and storytelling in maintaining and representing community health.
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Interview #097 Lloyd Arneach – A Perspective on Native American Storytelling. from 2010-01-27T12:00
A discussion on the value of oral traditions and native american storytelling in the modern era.
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Interview #093 Gail Herman - Building a Student Storytelling Festival. from 2009-12-02T12:00
Gail Herman speaks about building a student storytelling Festival on the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf.
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Interview #057 Michael Cotter - Farming the Heartland of American Storytelling. from 2009-10-14T12:00
Michel Cotter is the first national storyteller to perform personal stories on the main stage at Jonesborough, TN. He is a semi-retired farmer and winner of the 2009 oracle award for excellence in...
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Interview #048 Esylltn Harker – Stories out of Welsh History and land of Wales. from 2009-09-30T12:00
Esyllt Harker is a Welsh storyteller who is exploring the connection between landscapes and language in historical welsh stories.
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Interview #090 Doug Elliot - Using Storytelling to support a nature based education.. from 2009-09-02T12:00
Doug Elliot talks about the history of natural world and how you can use storytelling to inspire passion in the natural world. He also talks about his herbal walk with a wild badger.
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Interview #089 Anne Glover - Finding your Authentic Storytelling Voice and Performance. from 2009-08-19T12:00
Anne Glover speaks about how she created the character Monkey and how anyone can find their true voice and oh she also talks about string and teaching french using storytelling.
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Interview #087 Kevin Strauss - Applying Storytelling to Environmental Science. from 2009-07-22T12:00
Kevin Strauss is an award winning educator and storyteller who has published five books related to environmental education and storytelling.
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Interview #085 Baba Jamal Koram - Storytelling as Responsibility. from 2009-06-24T12:00
Baba Jamal Koram is a force of nature in the African American Storytelling world - winner of the 2007 NSN circle of excellence award.
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Interview #083 Ben Sota and the Zany Umbrella Circus A Conversation on Showmanship. from 2009-05-27T12:00
Ben Sota and the Zany Umbrella Circus have been traveling around the country for over fifteen years to such places as the white house...
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Interview #081 Tim Tingle - A Historical Perspective of Native American Storytelling. from 2009-04-29T12:00
Tingle is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a sought-after speaker and storyteller, and an award-winning author of Native American fiction and folklore.
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Interview #080 Jay O’Callahan - Discovering Storytelling With My Children. from 2009-04-15T12:00
Jay O’Callahan is one of the worlds most famous and recognized storytellers. His works are available online for sale. He has performed world-wide.
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Interview #078 Elaine Wynne, clinical psychologist - Healing Children with Stories. from 2009-03-18T12:00
Elaine speaks at length of how to use and how she has used storytelling in traditional medical situations to heal the sick and effect the disturbed.
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Interview #075 Loren Niemi - Honoring Elders and Apprentices. from 2009-02-04T12:00
At this point in time, I understand clearly and fondly what a gift I received when I came to storytelling. The gift of generous mentors who encouraged me to find and develop my own voice rather th...
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Interview #074 David Novak - Storyteller’s Compass - Narrative as Guide. from 2009-01-21T12:00
Adult listeners at storytelling events are often surprised by the recognition that storytelling evokes. Listeners tell us,Gee, I haven't thought about that in ages... I'd forgotten what it was li...
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Interview #061 National Storytelling Network Panel. from 2008-09-24T12:00
A very lively discussion on storytelling in the 20th century - How to use podcasting, blogging, website assistance, mp3 sales and email to support your storytelling practice.
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Interview #060 Jack Zipes - Fairy Tales are still relevant to the children of today. from 2008-09-17T12:00
Jack Zipes writes... At their best, the storytelling of fairy tales constitute the most profound articulation of the human struggle to form and maintain a civilizing process.
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Interview #054 Joshua Safford - Telling to the street – magic for eye. from 2008-04-30T12:00
This is a traditional way of performing storytelling back when storytellers worked in the marketplace in the street or would travel from home to home singing for their supper. Largely I do this in ...
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Interview #041 Alex Feldman, Connecting Quickly (and Managing Behavior) through Physicality. from 2008-01-30T12:00
When telling for young audiences, even the most brilliant story is vulnerable to young audiences if the situation is compromised, or your delivery is not ideal for the setting. In this discussion, ...
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Interview #039 Steve Denning, The knowledge-based organization: Using stories to embody and transfer knowledge from 2008-01-16T12:00
Steve Denning you used storytelling to reform the world bank. Good business cases are developed through the use of numbers, but they are typically approved on the basis of stories. A story can tra...
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Interview #031 Mark Wagler - Reshaping classrooms with narrative pedagogy. from 2007-11-07T12:00
Mark Wagler built up a theory of narrative pedagogy, and a set of teaching practices that helped students experience their lives and the world around them as a story. In this podcast we talk about...
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Interview #020 Steve Otto - Bringing Storytelling to New Communities. from 2007-08-22T12:00
Steve Otto describes how the "Chicken festival" started a traveling storytelling festival designed to help spread the art of storytelling. Traveling to different areas of the state every two years.
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Interview #018 Rev Victoria Burdick - Storytelling in Ceremony. from 2007-08-08T12:00
In this interview with the Reverend Victoria Burdick, M. Div Hospice Chaplain ~ Celebrant we discuss how storytelling can be used in wedding ceremonies to create the ceremony. We also discuss how ...
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Interview #018 Rev Victoria Burdick - Storytelling in Ceremony. from 2007-08-08T12:00
In this interview with the Reverend Victoria Burdick, M. Div Hospice Chaplain ~ Celebrant we discuss how storytelling can be used in wedding ceremonies to create the ceremony. We also discuss how ...
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Interview #018 Rev Victoria Burdick - Storytelling in Ceremony. from 2007-08-08T12:00
In this interview with the Reverend Victoria Burdick, M. Div Hospice Chaplain ~ Celebrant we discuss how storytelling can be used in wedding ceremonies to create the ceremony. We also discuss how ...
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Interview #010 Kevin Cordi Children Telling Stories and giving Children a voice. from 2007-06-13T12:00
Kevin Cordi is the co-author, with Judy Sima, of Raising Voices: Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes and according to the National Storytelling Network, “the first full time high school storytell...
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Interview #008 Stephen Hollen - Improvisational storytelling with children. from 2007-05-30T12:00
Improvisational storytelling is a teaching tool that is a cross between storytelling that I have been doing for years and improv techniques I learned in my college days. A conversation-with Stephen...
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Interview #007 Jim Flanagan - Writing and storytelling with children. from 2007-05-23T12:00
Jim Flanagan says that to tell a story, you must write it down. Before you tell it, you must have a point of reference, an outline, and then scratching a script. This is the beginning of using wri...
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Interview #006 Judith Black - Child Based Storytelling. from 2007-05-16T12:00
Judith Black says that adults edit and censor the stories they share with children. Making them solely out of our wants and objectives instead of based in our children’s needs, might result in robb...
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Interview #003 Medicine Story - Power of Myth and Children with Storyteller. from 2007-04-25T12:00
What we need to investigate and learn together is healing. In a time of great sickness nothing else should concern us. Healing the earth, healing society, healing our communities, healing ourselves.
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Interview #002 Jonatha Wright - Cross Cultural Storytelling. from 2007-04-18T12:00
Probably we are all aware of the cultural confusions and misconceptions that become evident daily in this world of instant updates. These errors in sensitivity can hurt feelings, and cause outright...
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