Julie Perrin: Restoring the world, re-storying the world

Celebrating Story Conference: Bringing People and Work to Life

“Restoring the world, re-storying the world”

Eco-philosopher David Abrams says “in order to re-store the world we need to re-story the world”. In this participatory workshop people will be encouraged practice telling a story from memory. Julie offers ways into waking up the underused muscle of memory and a place to practice listening and telling.

See and hear examples of bi-lingual storytelling offering students traditional stories in their first language. Observe a short video of student storytellers confidently taking the lead.

Julie has been telling stories for 20 years. She says “I tell hardy folktales, holy fool tales and tales of human folly... mostly my own!” Julie offers storytelling performances and workshops for adults as well as residencies in schools. She helps establish a community of listening and teaches people to select and tell stories from their own experience as well as to re-tell traditional tales. Recently Julie has been working with Bi-lingual storytellers from the City of Hume in projects with student storytellers. Julie began her working life as a teacher of drama and English, her M.Ed thesis the Tale of One Teller was nominated for the Freda Cohen prize at Melbourne University. Julie now directs Tellingwords and her mission is to re-awaken people to the joy of telling stories from memory. www.tellingwords.com.au

This conference is for you if you are:

A story or narrative practitioner in any guise.

Interested in learning more about the many and diverse ways of working with story and narrative across business, community and government

Seeking new (or old) ways to help bring meaningful connection, relationship and work to fruition within the workplace and beyond.

7-8 October 2010 Abbotsford Convent.

http://www.babelfishgroup.com/files/CelebratingStoryConference.pdf

JJ Retailer of Tales: Telling stories for Channel 31

John Sheills... later celebrated as JJ, was first captivated by puppetry’s magic and the thrall of stories well told, as a boy in Orbost. JJ has been variously involved in education and the performing arts for over 25 years.

JJ welcomes opportunities to dispel the popular notion that storytelling is just for kids. He offers stories for community events anniversaries, senior citizen functions, restaurants, exhibition openings, book launches …wherever.

JJ’s mission is to bestir the collective sense of wonder in keeping the stuff of story alive by sharing his stories with all who love to hear a story well told.

Here he is in action telling stories to children as part of Channel 31’s new Storytime program. JJ is part of the team of Vic Guild tellers who participated in supporting Bret Dalgleish’s vision of a program for preschool age children.

Storytime is scheduled to air sometime in November (dates to be revealed) and then, and in JJ’s words … ‘Stories will blow across borders …settle quietly …take root…and flower.’

Bookings: (03) 5968 2492

Rocket Clock: Time to Tell. October 6 Trades Hall

Rocket Clock Story Slam: Wednesday October 6, 2010

Bella Union Bar
Level 1, Trades Hall
Corner of Victoria & Lygon Streets
Carlton South

Free entry. Doors open 7.30pm; slam kicks off 8pm.

YOU'RE ALL INVITED!

Inaugural theme: “Firsts”

Ten people each have five minutes to tell a story around a particular theme. Judges in the audience rate each story on both content and performance. Everyone has a great time.

1. Check out the Rocket Clock theme of the month. Plan your story. Write it down. Read it to your cat. Think about your first line and your last line. Don’t neglect the bits in the middle. Try it out on your cat again.

2. Pre-register your intent to tell by emailing rocketclockss@gmail.com, or register on the night. Gather a support crew. Arrange a babysitter for your cat.

3. Make yourself known to the Rocket Clock crew on the night. Await your turn patiently. Dazzle the generous crowd. Win great prizes.

Judge

Come along and let us know you’re keen to judge. Score the tellers out of ten. Be open to liquid bribes.

Applaud

Listen, laugh, drink, cheer & weep. No interrupting. No heckling

The fine print

Rocket Clock is a place for stories. True stories. Personal narratives. Stuff that really happened to you. Sure, we won’t be fact checking every detail, and some poetic licence is welcome, but that one about the time you had to defeat your new girlfriend’s seven evil exes is not your story. It’s Scott Pilgrim’s.

Rocket Clock is not a place for preaching, venting, ranting or selling. It’s a place for sharing, and for celebrating the art and craft of storytelling. Humour is encouraged, but don’t see this as an opportunity to hone your new stand-up routine. It’s not.

Rocket Clock is about telling not reading. No notes allowed. It’s a good idea to write your story down and then practice reading it aloud. Multiple times. In the car, in the shower, at Sunday lunch. Practice makes perfect. Your mum always said so. She was right.

Each teller will have five minutes to share their story. Five minutes only. There will be a warning bell with one minute to go. You may be forcibly removed from the stage by the MC if you attempt to exceed the five minute limit. You have been warned.

http://rocketclock.com.au/

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Under the Banyan tree: Victorian tellers head north to Darwin Festival

Lily Pang travelled from NSW to Darwin

Storytellers from around Australia travelled to the Darwin Festival.

Coordinated by Anne E Stewart from Victoria, shows included Under the Banyan Tree, Spirits of the Night and the Wisdom of the Elders.

One of the days in Darwin was dedicated to continuing the discussion, that began In NSW, on ways to further the development of Storytelling in Australia. Topics included the building of a National Website, the complexity of managing both volunteer and professional storytellers and unifying the names of the various storytelling groups around Australia.

For more information On the Darwin Festival and the meeting and of course to view the pics please visit underthebanyantreestorytelling.blogspot.com/.

Anne E Stewart mcing The Wisdom of the Elders: Honouring our Senior Citizens

Children's Book Council of Australia: Wordplay@Artplay

Guild Storytellers are busy during the Melbourne Writers' Festival.

This year the CBCA Book Week celebrations are part of the international gathering of wordsmiths.

While big folk gather at

Federation Square to hear author talks and assemble for literary tours of Melbourne, smaller people congregate at ArtPlay for a program of brilliant workshops and story related activities.

Book Week is the longest running children's festival in Australia, celebrating its 65th birthday in 2010.

Each year, many schools and public libraries from all over Australia spend a week celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators.

http://cbca.org.au/index.htm

Wordplay@Artplay

Location:

ArtPlay: behind Fed. Square to the east of the playground area at Birrarung Marr. ArtPlay is where learning, imagination and play come together to expand the minds and lives of our youngest generation.

The storytellers:

Dates

August:

Saturday 28: Jackie Kerin

Sunday 29: JJ Sheills

September:

Saturday 4: Cora Zon

Sunday 5: Matteo

Times:11.15am and 2.00pm

pics Jackie and Matteo in action

Harpers School of Storytelling October 9

Program for Saturday 9th October 2010

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8.45 a.m. Arrival and registration, tea, coffee and chat.

9 a.m. Workshop: Stimulating Storytelling with Cindy-Lee Hunter Harper in Room 1

Storytelling fun to light your story fire.

11 a.m. Morning tea (provided)

11.30 a.m. Workshop: Adventures in Rhyme, Song and Story with Cindy-Lee Hunter Harper and Imelda Evans in Room 1

Storytelling skill development for those working in early

childhood education or with little ones to tell tales to.

1.30 p.m. Lunch (visit Emerald’s cafés or BYO)

3 p.m. Story Café in the Theatre Bar. Featured Teller: Imelda Evans plus chalk board to try out your story. Snacks available to purchase.

5 p.m. Dinner at local café or restaurant

7.30 p.m. Storytelling Theatre: pre-show drinks available from bar.

7.45 p.m. Show: The Colours of Hope

Cindy-Lee Hunter Harper specializes in early childhood education and teaching storytelling. Stimulating Storytelling will fire up your imagination, stir up existing skills and develop new ones through storytelling games. Adventures in Rhyme, Song and Story is a program for those living or working in early childhood education. Working with Cindy-Lee, Imelda Evans has spent years teaching Adventures which is perfect for playgroup leaders, child care workers, kindergarten teachers, parents, grand-parents, librarians and anyone who wishes to share the joy of story with the young.

Workshops: $100 per wkshp Story Café: $5 per person The Colours of Story: $10 per adult Whole Day: 2 workshops, Story Café and Theatre performance: $180 per adult

Places limited. Please book asap. www.cindyleeharper.com.au

0488 48 00 45 harperstoryschool@bigpond.com

The Gem Arts and Community Theatre, 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald, Victoria, Australia 378

The Colours of Hope

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Gael Cresp and Tall Ted at Channel 31

Gael Cresp, another wonderful Vic storyteller, visited the set of Tall Ted's Storytime.

This is Brett Dalgleish's first adventure into children's television and progress has been amazingly smooth.

TT already has quite a presence on the internet you can check out his website http://www.tallted.com/. If you google him you can enjoy some of his youtube antics.

Storytime will go to air sometime in November.