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Press Play to hear Brother Wolf speak with Tejumola Ologboni on Walking the Talk with Street Storytelling.

A little more on the Artist…

Teju of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a master storyteller and folklorist of international renown. He draws listeners into stories with gestures and movements, and sometimes with music made on traditional Africa instruments. Some of his stories are filled with magic and mystical characters, like “the Possum and the Hare;” others are fact like the story of Joshua, a runaway captive who escaped to Wisconsin, and whose case went all the way to the Supreme Court, when a bounty hunter tried to capture and return him to being enslaved. Serious or humorous, political or festive, Teju’s stories reflect on longstanding and contemporary cultural perspectives to capture and return him to being enslaved. Serious or humorous, political of festive, Teju’s stories reflect on longstanding and contemporary cultural perspectives to give listeners greater understanding of the profound influence of African heritage on our traditions and identities. Come listen to this culture keeper and be enlightened and inspired.

He is also an author, teacher, consultant, poet, writer, actor, dancer, percussionist, and “verbal illusionist.”

“Storytelling is the most ancient of ancient arts.” -Tejumola Ologboni

Whether in your schools, concerts, festivals, libraries or community centers, bring Teju the Storyteller to your stage for a memorial cultural experience.

Tejumola F. Ologboni
P.O. Box 16706
Milwaukee, WI 53216
(414) 344-6656

You can learn more about Teju at http://www.yourfavoritestorytellers.org/teju.html

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Press Play to hear Kevin Strauss speak about applying storytelling to environmental science on the Art of Storytelling. Written by Kevin Strauss... Introduction: “Environmental Storytelling” has become a popular subset of the storytelling world, but until recently, there was little agreement about what it was or how to do it. In this Blog follow-up to my interview on [...]

Book Review by Brother Wolf.

What an amazing resource! This book is an excellent effective resource for anyone who works with schools, camps, libraries, and just wants to share it on from family book shelves. It is a must for storytellers who intend to tell scary stories to children under fourteen. This anthology of scary stories clearly demonstrates the rich selection of plots and stories that are common in America today. Many of the more traditional stories are provided with slightly different twists. This produces fun to read (or hear) collections for the new storyteller while still holding the interest of those readers (or listeners) who have heard these tales. There are several original stories that are found nowhere else – plus a large selection of the old standbys. Altogether there are twenty stories placed in five categories with four stories per group: Just Deserts, Ghostly Guardians, Dark Humor, Urban Legends and Fearless Females. You are bound to fit a tale to fit any need!

The stories included are not horror or suspense. Blood and gore are not privileged any place in this collection of tales. Instead, the concentration is good scary storytelling. The short length of the book and each story make it an easy take-along for sleepovers and camping trips.

Here you will find Margaret Read Macdonald’s version of the Dauntless Girl; in addition to a fresh twist of the graveyard dare story from Great Briton. The Gingerbread Boy, a tale collected by Mary Hamilton, and a Cinderella story told with a visit to a friendly neighborhood witch who is right out of Hansel and Gretel. Kevin Cordi’s “Aaron Kelly’s Bones,” serves as a great reminder of what to do when the dead come back to haunt the living. What better demonstration of the fact that the bones of old relationships get in the way of the current ones than a skeleton sitting in a rocking chair in your living room? Each story comes with notes and additional resources that could be use in developing a storyteller’s own version of the tale. Included with the collection are hints of
books, websites, and festivals to check out. I found the book very readable.

The stories were so fresh that I could not put the book down; I had to read it in one evening. At 144 pages this book will become one of the old standbys of any classroom for middle school, especially 5th and 6th grade. This is an important oral narrative resource for any teacher wanting to include storytelling in the curriculum this fall. Without reservation, buy it, you and the kids you work with deserve a good fright!

The August House of Scary Stories
ISBN 978-0-87483-915-9
Price : $15.95

To Purchase this book try Amazon -
The August House Book of Scary Stories: Spooky Tales for Telling Out Loud

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Press Play to hear Elisa Pearmain speak about a Teaching Forgiveness through storytelling on the Art of Storytelling. Written by Elisa Pearmain... Forgiveness is central to the success of relationships, and is an integral part of the emotional, spiritual and even physical healing process, and yet it is poorly understood. Forgiveness offers an opportunity to look at [...]

Over the Next month I will be releasing the video version of this email course available now on the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf I promise that I send you the seven emails about storytelling over the next ten days or so and that in addition I will send you Announcement about storytelling workshops [...]

Press Play to hear Anne Glover speak about Finding Your Authentic Voice in Storytelling on the Art of Storytelling. Anne Glover writes.... Here are two things I feel passionately about in storytelling: authentic voice, and connection to the audience. They are closely intertwined. Some people think "authentic voice" means "no character voices." If you've [...]

I am happy to share the latest number from the show. For the last 3 months we have been running over six thousands downloads a month Currently listeners are in over 104 countries world wide. The average released episodes has 1000 listeners with 26,000 downloads since June 1st.

Thank-you for all of those who have been so supportive. I have changed the name of the show.

As of two days ago the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf is the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf. The name has been changed to help with audience identity and growth.

Finally – the many of the episode CD’s of the show will be for sale in the National Storytelling Festival Marketplace tent. Make sure that you stop by the tent at the Market Place and buy and pick up a CD!

Press Play to hear Doug Elliot talk about using storytelling to support nature based education on the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf. Doug Elliot Writes... How do you find a story in nature (or anywhere else for that matter)? I often start with an incident, an encounter, a problem or a question-something happens to you, you [...]

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The Art of Storytelling with Children podcast successfully fuels the rebirth of the storytelling community in a new technological format. The podcast has created a format where anyone can learn the ancient art of storytelling.

“Storytellers can reach children in ways that other forms of education fail,” says storyteller Eric Wolf. Mr. Wolf has told stories professionally since 1993. “I have seen it again and again. The art of storytelling is essential to the development of moral and ethical behavior in children. Ethics and storytelling walk hand and hand into our children’s lives. You cannot have one with out the other.”

The Art of Storytelling with Children is not just for children. This program is for anyone who wants to learn how to use storytelling with children. Want to know how to be an amazing storyteller? How to use storytelling to hold audiences of all ages in rapt attention? How to get an audience to give you a standing ovation? Why thirty second stories are so useful? How storytellers are able to tell such great stories? All these questions on the art of storytelling are answered in considerable detail at www.storytellingwithchildren.com.

The Art of Storytelling with Children podcast has had a total of over 41,000 downloads from 140 different countries worldwide with 12,000 unique listeners and several hundred regular fans. This is a feat made more amazing because each show is over an hour long. More than 80 storytellers from all over the world have been interviewed. While long believed dead by many, the ancient art of storytelling is alive and well at www.storytellingwithchildren.com.

For More information contact:

Eric Wolf
(937) 767-8696
http://www.ericwolf.org

Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on May 13th at 8PM ET with Humorist and storyteller Buck P. Creacy about what makes storytelling funny. on the Art of Storytelling with Children.

Who Is Buck P. Creacy?

Buck P. Creacy is a homegrown Humorist and a Storyteller. But that is hardly an adequate description of this very funny man. Buck P. has always used humor to make life better for those around him. In the process you can tell he has gained a passion for life and people himself.

He started his humor apprenticeship in Slim’s Barber Shop, Farmington New Mexico, at the tender age of 14. There he realized he could shine more shoes and get bigger tips, if he made his customers laugh. He is still putting a shine in peoples eyes and making them laugh.

Buck P. is also a real live “honest to God” Toolmaker, with nearly 30 years in the tool room, working, consulting and teaching for the benefit of companies all over America. Sharing his wit and wisdom with some of the best known international companies in the world such as Toyota, Dresser Corp., Osram Sylvania and the list goes on and on for more than 98 companies. Groups both large and small love him.

Today his focus on humor is as razor sharp as ever, but never malicious. He has chosen early in life to make his humor “safe” for any audience. Whether his audience is a group of first year students or industry team members or a family reunions, he manages to bridge the gaps with easy grace.

Buck P. sees the whole wide world just a little bit different. And that difference is enough just enough to make you laugh out loud.

MArch 9- April 2, 2008 BRIEFLY: I had a BLAST in an exhausting collage of faces and places starting with Atlanta, Kennesaw (curriculum mixes drama and storytelling) with Irish teller Eddie Lenihan. Then up through the Smokey Mountains: Cleveland, Knoxville, and Jonesborough (SUCH A LITTLE TOWN!) Connie Gil hosted me. Met with NSN (Bobbie) and [...]

Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on Tuesday May 20th at 8 p.m. Karen Chace talks about building a school storytelling club on the Art of Storytelling with Children. Karen has a great resource of storytelling links and other storytelling goodies that are worth your time [...]

Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on Tuesday June 3rd at 8 p.m. SWC #057 with storyteller, Dovie Thomason - Building Young Adult Audiences. Dovie Thomason writes… I enjoy listening… I enjoy dialogue…I hope to learn something from every group of listeners or every chance conversation. SO….join me/us [...]

Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on Tuesday June 10th at 8 p.m. Mary Jo Huff speaks about early literacy begins with rhythm rhyme & story time on the Art of Storytelling with Children. Mary Jo writes… Language is critical for literacy development and storytelling creates an interactive bridge. [...]

This Tuesday Evening at 8 pm ET on June 24th - 2008 Jim May will be appearing on the Art of Storytelling with Children Podcast. Jim May Writes… I tell stories to children because I learned many years ago that nothing in my ten years of experience as a classroom teacher held my elementary students’ attention like [...]

This Tuesday,July 1st at 8pm ET - Jack Zipes the preeminent writer about and translator of fairy tales will be appearing on the Art of Storytelling with Children. 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. They depict metaphorically [...]

This Thursday evening on the 31st of July - Pass it On Kids, children’s consignment shop located at 136 Dayton Street in Yellow Springs, Ohio will host four hours of the Fairytales Forever Saga as told by Brother Wolf in four acts at 6, 7, 8, and 9 in the evening. Story lovers are welcome to bring their children and themselves to any one-hour or all four. Suggested ticket donation are $7 an hour for adults and $5 an hour for children.

Seating is limited to ten people an hour so reserve your seats early by calling Pass it On Kids at 767-9100. Be sure to leave the acts you will be attending, your name and phone number and the # of seats you wish to reserve per hour. There will be a short intermission after each act. Drop-in’s are welcome on the hour - 6,7,8 or 9pm.

Told in the tradition of 1001 Ariabian Nights, Fairytales Forever is an on-going story made up of multiple shorter fairytales woven together into a seamless web. As the night wears on the stories, will become darker and more scary.

All ages 5 and up - 6pm – Peter and the Magic Yo-yo & Myia and the Sword of Light.
All ages 7 and up - 7pm – Treachery of the Goblin King & The Fairy War.
All ages 10 and up - 8pm - A Gift for Alex, The Fishermen’s Heart & Truth from Lies.
All ages 12 and up - 9pm - 100 Princes & The Ice Queen

Brother Wolf, a.k.a. Eric James Wolf, is a local Yellow Springs resident and an internationally known storyteller and host of the Art of Storyteling with Children Podcast.
Pass it On Kids is a Yellow Springs children’s consignment shop located at 136 Dayton Street, specializing in gently used children’s clothes, shoes, furniture, games and toys.

For more information go to:
http://www.ericwolf.org
http://www.fairytalesforever.com
http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/about

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This Tusday at 8pm September 16 ET Dale Gilbert Jarvis will be speaking
on How to collect true scary stories for Halloween. You are welcome to join the call - just sign up for the event alert list on the top of this page before September 13th, 2008.

Near to where I live is a small lake with the delightfully ghoulish name of Deadman’s Pond. According to local legend, the pond is bottomless, and I’m sure many people know of similar stories for lakes near where they live. These lakes and ponds offer us tantalizing doorways to another realm. Peering into the reflective surface of a still body of water and wondering what lies beneath provides us with a link to the unexplained. Perhaps this is why they fascinate us. It is not so much that we think they actually are bottomless, but that part of us wishes that they might be.

So too with ghost stories. I’ve told ghost stories to literally thousands of people over the past 13 years, and they continue to be the stories most often requested when I do work with school kids. Most of the stories I tell are true, or at least were thought to be true by the people I learned them from. I love collecting stories that are tied to specific places, and sharing them with people who love that delicious shiver that runs up one’s spine when they are well told.

“A teller of spine tingling tales that are so convincing, that even if you don’t believe in ghosts… you soon will!”
‑Wayne Rostad, On the Road Again

Bio of storyteller Dale Gilbert Jarvis:
Dale Gilbert Jarvis is a storyteller, professional folklorist, and writer living and working in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Dale tells ghost stories, faerie stories, legends and traditional tales from Newfoundland, Ireland, the United Kingdom and beyond. Dale is the founder of the St. John’s Storytelling Circle, president of the annual St. John’s Storytelling Festival, and a member of the board of Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada.

As a storyteller, Dale has performed locally and at international festivals, but is perhaps less well known than his alter ego, the distinguished Reverend Thomas Wyckham Jarvis, Esquire. Since 1997, The Reverend has been the host and guide of the St. John’s Haunted Hike, a walking ghost tour through the haunted streets of St. John’s. Under his supervision, locals and tourists have been introduced to the vengeful lovers, murdered soldiers, and mysterious fires which await those brave enough to explore the secrets that lie in wait in St. John’s darkest corners. Mixing history, humour, and traditional storytelling, Dale has been winning over audiences and throwing in the odd scare here and there, and has been covered by a wide variety of local, national and international media. Over the past years, the Hike has grown from a small idea to a fixture in the St. John’s tourism industry.

Dale is the author of two books of local ghost stories, “Haunted Shores: True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador” and “Wonderful Strange: Ghosts, Fairies and Fabulous Beasts of Newfoundland and Labrador” both published by Flanker Press, and a collection of world ghost stories for young adult readers, “The Golden Leg and Other Ghostly Campfire Tales” also published by Flanker.

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Mmmm! That plum jam on home-made bread looks most tasty!

Hi Gretel!

I sure hope you're keeping all of these gorgeous pictures for the book I keep nagging you about writing.

Guess what? I saw your beautiful illustrations in the "Pinwheels" book at the conference in LA. I was looking at the books on display and stopped at your distinctive and expressive style- AND I met the author- very sweet woman. A big congrats on that beautiful book!

XO

Heavenly plums!
Your beautifully lined up jam jars make me want to try to make more jam once more (I am as proud as a peacock to report that I made 8 glasses of apricot jam, with my very own recipe - me, the no-jam-girl *smile*).

Man o' Man do I want to live where you do!

I am coming out of my hiding. I am almost done with my 3 deadlines and I am exhausted.

I just love the vision of where you live. It is heavenly!

I am wondering if it is my English hertiage that makes me just love the way your home and area looks!

Oh dear...now you've put me in the mood for some delicious plum jam!

oh my, I can almost tast a sweet juicy plum....sigh.

Plum is one of my most favourite fruits ! YUM

Oh my goodness, the jam looks GORGEOUS!! I can taste it from here... Love the labels on your jars :)

Yummy looking jam.

Toby loved the pickle you gave us, and as you made it he named it 'Grickle' !!

Please have a look on our blog and see if you can help identify, I know you are good at this kind of detective work!
Penny.
x

Found my first blackberry in the hedgerow yesterday - it was gorgeous.

I want to come and live at your place!!

We've got no plums on our plum trees this year !!!

Mmmm, plums are dee-lish. When I was a wee girl we had a HUGE plum tree in the backyard, which produced copious quantities of shiny, almost-black friar plums. Mom made plum jam, plum jelly, plum fruit leather and plum juice for the winter. We complained about it then, but how I crave some of that plummy goodness now.

I haven't made any jam this year, we're still wending our way through last year's glut. I do have a freezerful of redcurrants, blackcurrants and gooseberries though! Must do something with them. I was thinking something along the line of a herby redcurrant jelly. Enjoy your plums!

Hi Gretel!

Nice plums! I have the urge to make jam. I need to indulge in the pure gloppyness of it all.

Erica
xxx

I so love the idea of plums, if not the actual plums themselves. Maybe I've never yet had a nice ripe one -- your photos are all so scrumptious... I'll keep trying. Or I'll simply buy jam...

Jenny

you're right, sob, not allowed on to the elephant site. So insulting!! But it proves it works. And now you've made me feel weak with hunger, too, with all that jam!

*gets out her epi-pen before she goes into anaphylactic shock*

Never eaten a plum for that reason. Always look lovely, if deadly.

Hello Pg...as I write this with tear filled eyes...so please excuse the odd spelling mistake!
I can only be honest and tell you I have been blown away this morning with your blog...
in fact i am speechless...well almost....
What can i say but,whooof,what a talent,I am in awe of your work and your background,determination, must be the first or at most the second word in your dictionary,the first being,Gifted.
You have inspired me today and I am so greatful for reading your blog,how nice to see a gifted individual display their work with such a passion ,most of the art blogs I have read have been so inwardly selfrightous...wrong spelling?...
so Purplecoo can have a day off from my lap top ,i will be spending my day looking through your pages....
I'm sorry for being so ...out there...with this comment but feel the need to let you know just what you have done for me today...I needed a kick up the old backside....well,have I just been given an almighty whopper of a kicking ,after looking at this page.
I thank you for that..

Mmmm plum jam - best kind there is! I bet yours tastes divine and it definitely looks like it should win 1st place in a Women's Institute jam competition - beautiful packaging.

How lovely your packaged up preserves look - and I am so impressed that your labels vary with the girth of the jars! I have just refound a plum butter recipe which I have put up on Tart's Tales and mean to try this year but our plum tree is v sick so I'll be doing swaps for apples with someone, I think.
xx L and Ash

Gretel! I am just catching up on long overdue visits... so much has happened in the past months.
Guess what! I am coming to the Uk to visit Cornwall, in 2009..
I have loved catching up on your blog - the plums look & sound wonderful. The photo of the plums and thermos reminds me of picnics by the roadside when I was a little gal..
I have my little box from Devon beside my bed :)

mmm... that desire to eat those candies... seem very rich... Greetings from Buenos Aires...

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