First Summer Session: STOR 5830 Storytelling Institute. June 7-10. Guest Instructor: Diana Wolkstein. 1 Credit hour. Topic:
Sacred Storytelling STOR 5830- Storytelling Institute: Guest Instructor, Bill Harley. June 11-14. 1 Credit hour Topic:
Storytelling and the Art of Performance
STOR 4147/5147 Basic Storytelling. June 15-July 2. Guest Instructor, Elizabeth Ellis. 3 Credit hours STOR 5200, Storytelling Issues: Telling History Stories. June 15-July 2. 2 Credit hours. Guest Instructor, Elizabeth Ellis What the heart wants to know the mind will find a way to learn. Whether you are teaching science, math, social studies or language arts, telling stories is a powerful way of opening the doors to students’ hearts. Use storytelling to create teachable moments in your classroom. Match story to educational objectives. Learn skills of research, narrative and performance to support the transformation of your teaching experience. This class will examine all the elements needed for relevant and compelling fact-based storytelling, both for classroom use and public performance. Areas of focus will include
***** Second Summer Session: STOR 5230 Advanced Storytelling. July 13-31. Guest Instructor, David Novak. STOR 5190 Linguistics of Storytelling. July 13-31. Instructor TBA. STOR 5830 Storytelling Institute. Aug. 2-6. Guest Instructor, Judith Black. Topic:
Storytelling for Children. For
teachers,
librarians, ministers, rabbis, imams, storytellers, religious
educators, parents, grand parents, adoring aunts and uncles... have
you thought about putting the book down, looking your children in
the face, and creating a world of imagination, delight, challenge,
and learning in the space between you? This is the power of
storytelling, the world’s oldest yet still-greenest tool for
education and communication. And it's yours for the asking. In this
class we will:
STOR 5830 Storytelling Institute. 2008 ETSU/Umoja Storytelling
Festival-Institute. 1 credit hour
Aug.
7-10. Featuring Linda Goss,
others TBA.
Institute Leaders Bios
BILL HARLEY
A Grammy award winning
artist, Bill uses song and story paint a vibrant picture of American
life. Poignant and hilarious, his work spans the generation gap,
reminds us of our common humanity and challenges us to be our very
best selves. A prolific author and recording artist with twenty
eight recordings and eight books to his credit, Bill is also a
regular commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered and featured on
PBS. Harley joined the National Storytelling Network's Circle of
Excellence in 2001 and tours nationwide as an author and performing
artist. Bill lives in Seekonk, Massachusetts with his wife, two
large dogs and two bee hives.
Diane is more than a storyteller. She is an interpreter of
life.
Whether recounting epics, trickster
stories or sacred stories, Diane enters and speaks from the heart of
each story she tells. Throughout her more than 40 years as a
storyteller, Diane has been known for her meticulous research as
well as her great range as a performer. She tours giving worldwide
performances, keynote speeches and workshops on myth and
storytelling. She is the author of 23 award-winning books of
folklore including The
Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales
and Treasures of the
Heart: Holiday Stories that Reveal the Soul Of Judaism.
She has recorded numerous CD’s
and DVD; her latest is A Storyteller’s Story.
In 2007, Mayor Bloomberg of New York City named June 22nd, 2007
Diane Wolkstein Day in honor of Diane’s 40 years of storytelling for
the people of New York.
JUDITH BLACK
Judith Black's traditional and
original stories have rocked laughing audiences to their feet for
more than three decades. Her work is informed by a rich background
in theater, early childhood development, political activism, and the
wryly examined life. Judith graduated from Wheelock College with a
degree in Early Childhood Education. She has worked as an
artist-in-residence in hundreds of schools around the country, and
has taught as an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University for
more than twenty years. She has been featured eight times on the
stage of the National Storytelling Festival and is a member of the
National Storytelling Network Circle of Excellence, the most coveted
honor in contemporary storytelling. For more information about
Judith's work, visit her at:
www.storiesalive.com
and www.tellingstoriestochildren.com
.
A pioneer and one of the leading experts in
contemporary storytelling, Linda co-founded
"In the Tradition..." National Black Storytelling Festival and
Conference. She is also a
co-founder of The National Association
of Black Storytellers, Inc. (NABS), and
was the first president of NABS (1984-1991). She is a founding
members of Keepers of the Culture,
an affiliate of NABS.
Her
many books include the anthologies Talk
that Talk and
Jump Up and Say.
Talk that Talk
was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of
the best paperbacks of 1990. Linda has performed throughout
the United States, at such venues as the National Storytelling
Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, Lincoln Center, Wolftrap Farm
Park, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Discovery
Theater), Walt Whitman Cultural Art Center, Anacostia Museum,
National Archives, Baltimore Museum of Art and Newark Art Museum.
“Linda Goss Day" has been proclaimed by the Mayor of Washington D.C.
and the Mayor of Alcoa, TN. In 2005 she was Visiting Professor
of African-American Storytelling at ETSU, where she helped to
inaugurate the first annual ETSU/Umoja Storytelling
Festival-Institute.
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