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Welcome to the Story Tree
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Written on March 7, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Categories: Learning to tell stories, Public Performances, Storytelling
Tags: audiobooks, award-winning, CDBaby, children, digital downloads, environment, folk tales, international, Jenni Cargill-Strong, mp3's, National Library of Australia, recordings, Salty Pete the Pirate, stories for children, storytelling, tales2go, The Story Tree, US, workshops, World Storytelling Awards
Why I am dancing against violence on V-Day …and what V-Day has to do with storytelling…
The ‘One Billion Rising’ movement was initiated by Eve Ensler, author of the ‘Vagina Monologues’.The scale of the movement is breathtaking and exciting: currently 187 countries have signed up to join in. Authors, politicians, filmmakers and celebrities have recorded You Tubes about why they will ‘strike, dance, rise’ on Feb 14. The one billion rising orgContinue Reading
Written on February 5, 2013 at 1:21 pm
Categories: Stories of the feminine, Storytelling, Women's rights
Tags: 50 million missing, Baba Yaga, Baba Yaga and Vasalissa, break the chain, femicide, inanna, initiation, intuition, male feminists, myth, one billion rising, stories of the feminine, story, storytelling, uprising of Arab woman, V-Day, Vasalissa, violence against women
Storytelling with your own kids
Mostly when parents tell stories to their children, the children are enchanted, enthusiatic and appreciative! But not always! This blogpost is dedicated to any parents who are telling stories to their offspring and being met with disapproval. If this is you, here is a warm pat for your back and a sympathetic nod. Yes I haveContinue Reading
Written on January 18, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Categories: Learning to tell stories, Public Performances, Storytelling, Uncategorized, Water stories
Tags: Art Gallery Tweed, folk tales, overcoming nerves, presentations, stories, storytelling, telling to kids, telling to your own kids
The Perfect Heart
XMAS GIVEAWAY: WIN A FREE STORYTREE CD by writing your ending to the folktale below! Ends 17 December. Please read the following tale and write your own ending in the comments section. Write a short or long ending. I will choose my favourite on December 17 and the winner can choose their favourite Story Tree CD!Continue Reading
Written on December 7, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Categories: Resources, Storytelling
Tags: Clarissa Pinkola Estes, folk tales, healing stories, melaina faranda, repurposed books, repurposing books, the perfect heart, therapeutic stories
Woodford Folk Festival for families – why go there?
To tell the truth, I have a love-hate relationship with Woodford Folk Festival. That is because it is usually either stinky hot and dusty or very, very muddy. It’s a bit like after a woman gives birth, you say “Never again”. Then the baby is so cute, you forget how it hurt and off youContinue Reading
Written on January 22, 2012 at 9:57 pm
Categories: Public Performances, Storytelling
Tags: Woodford Folk Festival; 2011-12
Recent Comments by storytree
- January 11, 2013 on The Troo Adventures of Salty Pete the Pirate (5-85 yrs)
- December 10, 2012 on The Perfect Heart
- December 23, 2011 on The Mermaid’s Shoes 3-8 years
- February 12, 2011 on The well of creativity and that devilish inner critic
- December 19, 2010 on Brave Vasalissa and her wise doll