Storytelling Sunday with Dee Palanisamy 2nd June

Me, Myself and My Story















Every Story is Us, Rumi.

Join me for Storytelling Sunday. Discover the stories that shape and design our lives. How do these stories craft our personalities? Do you enjoy the character stories?

Workshop your story with me this weekend.

Dee

Storytelling at the Newport Folk Festival 29 - 30 June

This is a small grass-roots festival hosted by the Newport Fiddle and Folk Club and managed by a small army of volunteers. It's a festival from the heart, that kicks above its weight and that opens its arms wide to embrace the broader community in a celebration of song, story and dance. The weekend offers workshops and performances with something for everyone.

The storytelling part of the program is rich and varied and largely supported by Storytelling Vic members and associates. 

SATURDAY 29th June The Newport Scout Hall

12.00 pm: The Amazing Case of Dr Ward and Other Stories

Musician Sarah Depasquale and storyteller Jackie Kerin ask the Question: when you bite into a pear and the juice dribbles down your chin, or spread a picnic rug under a shady elm or smell a rose, do you ever ask yourself: how did these plants come to be in Australia?

Passionate gardeners, Sarah and Jackie originally  developed this set of stories for the Williamstown Botanic Gardens but have gone on to share the tales at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, Stone the Crows in NSW and botanic gardens around Victoria.

4.00 pm Bush Poetry and Stories

 

Join Dave and Alan Davies on a journey back in time to the days of swaggies, shearers, stagecoaches, squatters and spielers. With Australian poems and stories from the nineteenth century, they'll take you back to the days when the bush was wild, the tracks were long and the tales were tall. 

7.00 pm Fabled Nights 

 

Come and enjoy a curated evening of spoken stories and story in song, served up with soup and chai around a crackling fire. Our wordsmiths promise to enchant with stories to suit all appetites.

Our storytellers and musicians are: Susan Hall, Matt McArthur, Ed Marshall, Dee Palanisamy, Kate Lawrence, Dharma, Sarah Depasquale, Jackie Kerin, Dave Davies and Alex Kharnam. And our MC guiding us through the evening is the wonderful Cameron Sharp.

Fabled Nights is a monthly gathering in Newport hosted by members of Storytelling Australia Victoria.

* For more information about the Newport Folk Festival, the location and how to buy tickets on line, visit their website HERE

FABLED NIGHTS May 17

The Newport Folk Festival has invited us to curate a night of story and *songs on the Saturday evening of the Festival - June 29 in the old Scout Hall. 

*Our singer is Dharma Picking from the Newport Fiddle and Folk Club.

In past years we've offered an open board but this year the Festival want the Fabled Nights crew to show their chops.

As part of the evening we will offer (as we have done in past years) soup and bread and chai.

While not set in cement - a plan might look like this:

• 4 stories and a song
• break (soup)
• 4 stories and a song
• chai  

So please if you wish to participate, come along to Fabled Nights on May 17 sign up and lets plan:

• the story you wish to tell - let us hear it
• strictly 10 minutes or less (we will ring a bell)
• think about the atmosphere of the festival: fun, inclusive, around the fire
• this is an all generations festival - so be aware children may be present
• think about the balance of the evening

We'll also need need help Mcing, setting up the room, serving, welcoming people and tidying up.

We have another Fabled Nights on June 21 so you will get two chances to practice and refine your story.

*If you are keen as beans to participate but can't make Fabled Nights, please contact me and let me know. Jackie 0412 210 098

WHAT IS FABLED NIGHTS

Fabled Nights in Newport is an open-hearted space for people who want to learn to craft true tales, traditional stories, tall tales and yarns; heart to heart and without notes. We welcome beginners and experienced folks. So come and strut your stuff, share what you know, try out a new story or tell a tale for the first time.

There's room for around 10 storytellers and we ask that stories be no longer than 10 minutes, give or take. We ask that stories be said not read.

We reserve 2 - 15 minute places for people who want to try out longer stories.

Let kind hearts and commonsense prevail: racist and homophobic stories hurt people so please don't bring them to Fabled Nights.

NEXT FABLED NIGHTS

WHEN: Friday 17th May 7.30pm - 10.00pm
WHERE: Newport Community HUB 13 Mason Street, Newport
COST: $5.00 or $3.00 (Storytelling Vic and Newport Fiddle and Folk Club members). No Booking required.

*WHEEL CHAIR ACCESS
* FABLED NIGHTS is an inter-generational event. Children welcome at parent/carers discretion.

Fabled Nights in Newport is a partnership event with Hobsons Bay Libraries and is supported by the Newport Fiddle and Folk Club.

PARKING: There is free parking at the rear of the building. Coming from Mason Street, turn left at Durkin Street then left into the car park. Entry to the HUB is from the park. 

Dee Palanisamy @ The Dock: Sunday 28th April

Take the kids along to the first of a series of Story Play Days at the The Dock Library 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade.

Easy to get to by public transport: any train to Southern Cross then hop on a tram 11, 35, 48, 70, 75

Jan 'Yarn' Wositzky

click on poster to enlarge

A Bundle of Sticks is the musical story that celebrates the birth of democracy in Australia.

Written and performed by Jan 'Yarn' Wositzky - Bushwackers Band co-founder, musician, and renowned storyteller - in collaboration with director and writer Sue Ingleton - APG, Australia You're Standing In It, Dimboola - it's a lively, heart-felt, fun and rebel-rousing show that tells of the hitherto unknown 15,000 strong 1851 Monster Meeting of Diggers on Forest Creek (Chewton, Castlemaine).

It was Australia's first mass political protest. They created a democratic movement that won the vote and led to the 1854 bloodshed at Eureka.


Dates and venue on the poster: click to enlarge.

World Storytelling Day 2019 - a glimpse

Dear Subscribers,

I'm re-posting our photos and videos from World Storytelling Day as I've received feedback that some of you could not access the videos. 

I experimented with embedding them from Facebook - clearly that does not work for everyone, so now I've uploaded them to Youtube. I hope you can all see them now.

World Storytelling Day is our most ambitious event in the calendar. It seems to grow every year. This year the subcommittee who pulled it together was Anna Manuel (WSD Kids) and Durgah Devi Palanisamy (Adults) with Daniela Bücheler-Scott and Jackie Kerin. The decision to run two events came about as a result of your feedback last year. We listen!

Hosted at The Dock, we kicked off at 11.00 am with World Storytelling Day for Kids. We had a full house of children with their adults in tow. The team of specialist early childhood storytellers entranced, enthralled and excited babies, toddlers and primary age children.

 This video will give you a glimpse of the fun.

I'm also going to share this video with you as is shows the entire Acknowledgement of Country led by Dani and Tamia. Several of you have contacted me asking to see this. You could have heard a pin drop.

At 2.00 pm the celebration for adults launched with a video story especially recorded for us by  Kamini Ramachandran from Singapore. One of the reasons we like The Dock is we can share stories from around the world in this way.

Kamini Ramachandran

Kamini is the creative director and founder of Storyfest, an International Storytelling Festival held annually in Singapore. The program will be launched any day. Keep and eye out and if you are travelling north, Storyfest is a terrific opportunity to connect with international tellers from afar.

Anthony snapped in action

Please visit our Facebook page and enjoy the photos taken of the storytellers. We are blessed to have the support of so many talented friends and supporters. Anthony Cheung, once again gifted the tellers with glorious images.
 

And finally, a thank you  Rex Smeal who joined us for the second year in a row. Rex is a digital artist who has gifted us an animation of the day. Rex also created the image for Fabled Nights 2019.

HUGE thanks to Anna, Dee, the committee, and the storytellers for a stupendous day of story.

Dani, Anna, Dave, Dee, Sarah, Alex, Kate, Jackie, Imogen (Missing from the line-up: Matteo, Roz Quin and Susan Hall)

Happy World Storytelling Day 2019

Jackie Kerin

REMINDERS: RAW and Fabled Nights

Anna Manuel is the special guest at the Garden on April 7. With her arrival in Australia 18 months ago,  Anna brought with her a fresh vision and energy. She has boosted enthusiasm and awareness for bilingual storytelling, become a key member of the Australian Kamishibai Association, taken on a committee role for Storytelling Australia Victoria and oragnised the recent World Storytelling Day for Kids.

Anna is heading to Bangkok for a while (she will return). This is your chance to meet Anna before she goes or say your farewell.

Bring a story to tell or ears to listen.
 This month Daniela Bücheler-Scott is our host.

WHEN: Sunday April 7

TIME: 12.00 pm - 3.00 pm

WHERE: 325 South Rd Brighton East

NO BOOKINGS required, pay at the gate.

COST: $15 (for the Garden and our special guest)

 *April 7 END OF DAYLIGHT SAVING

REMINDER FABLED NIGHTS

There will be no Fabled Nights in April as it falls during the Easter break.

We'll be back on May17th. So plenty of time to think about your stories!