Annual Harvest Festival The Ballarat Storytellers invite you to celebrate the Harvest.
Wood-Fired Pizzas
Harvest Produce
Trash & Treasure
Book Stall, Plants
Music and Storytelling
Information about gardens and gardening
Fun for Everyone!
When:
Where: Cnr: Dyte Parade & Queen Street
For further details call 0417 347 395
Or visit the website at www.ballaratcommunitygarden.org.au
Autumn is a wonderful time of year in Melbourne. The wind drops out and the heat fades. Festivals spring up in the regional towns and in the city.
Interstate and overseas storytellers frequently ask us for suggestions for storytelling venues and events where they can perform or participate. While we can’t do the legwork, we have come up with a list of links for storytellers to explore. This is an evolving and ever-changing list. As we receive feedback we’ll add or subtract suggestions. You’ll find asterisks by the links that we know have been receptive to storytelling.
If you know of any other possibilities or if you discover any of the links are no longer working please let us know: jackie@jackiekerin.com.au
* National Gallery Victoria NGV The Gallery has two campuses in the CBD: International and Australian (The Ian Potter Centre).
* Mornington Regional Art Gallery This small and dynamic gallery supports storytelling. It’s out of town and a little difficult to get to if you don’t have a car
MUSEUMS
Museum Victoria NB there are 3 campuses: Melbourne, Scienceworks, Immigration
LIBRARIES
FOLK CLUBS
* Newport Fiddle and Folk Club
FOLK FESTIVALS
Some of these are in Country towns. Hard to get to in some cases. Most spoken word seems to be poetry and Australiana. Trying to broaden tastes but some festivals are set in their ways. But have a look just for fun. Times are a changin’!
* Maldon
LITERARY, WRITER’S AND OTHER FESTIVALS
*Williamstown Literary Festival
White Hat list of Literary Festivals This is really worth trawling! White hat also list some of the most beautiful historic homes in Melbourne and surrounds. Many of these can be used as venues.
Australian Festivals (list of festivals around Australia)
VENUES FOR HIRE
Gemco Situated in the Hills accessble by public transport
Trades Hall Situated in the CBD
OTHER
Dromkeen The home of Australian Children's Book Illustration
**** Re-enchantment – a new transmedia documentary project exploring the hidden meanings of fairy tales
Explore the enchanted forest with its six different story spaces (Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel, Bluebeard, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White); the Gallery where you can scroll through artists' interpretations of fairy tales and, if you like, upload your own artwork; and the Forum where you can have discussions with people from all around the world.
The Pat Glover Memorial Storytelling Award has been part of the Port Fairy Folk Festival for many years. Named after a local storyteller, the aim of the award is to celebrate and preserve the art of oral storytelling. Over the years it has been won by both amateur and professional storytellers and reciters. 
Once upon a time there were two brothers who ruled Arabia and Persia. King Shahryar had his palace in Baghdad and his brother King Zaman had his palace in Samarkand. The two brothers ruled their kingdoms and lived contented lives until one day disillusionment and unhappiness entered both their lives.
Calamity first came to King Zaman when he set out on a journey to visit his brother. However, he had not gone far when he had to return to his palace for a precious gift he had forgotten to take with him. When he returned he discovered, to his horror, his wife asleep in the arms of a giant slave. Shortly after, King Shahryar discovered that, when he was away, his wife was in the habit of organising and enjoying erotic orgies with the handsome young slaves at the palace in Baghdad. Of course the faithless wives were executed and Zaman and Sharyar came to the conclusion that women were not to be trusted. Sharyar set about killing the beautiful young virgins of Baghdad and there might have been no limit to his madness had it not been for his chief minister’s daughter, the beautiful, wise and intelligent Sheherezade who became a legendary oral storyteller.
The story of Sheherezade is often in JB Rowley’s storytelling programs. High school students are enthralled by the story and, in 2009, JB told Sheherezade’s story to very receptive audiences as part of the dinner program while on a storytelling tour of the bushfire affected areas of Murrindindi shire. Out of that tour evolved the story of The Flowerdale Tattoo which won the Hope 2011 story competition at ABC POOL. Now, as a way of contributing to POOL, JB is working on a project to honour Sheherezade and her stories, starting with, of course, Sheherezade’s story.
Dr Lewis Mehl-Madrona, University of Vermont
Date | 22 March 2011
Time | 1.00 – 2.00 pm
Venue | Melbourne School of Population Health,
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton
ABSTRACT: A movement in psychology and medicine is arising that sees lives as stories and people as storytellers. This movement has allowed European-based psychology to connect to the world's indigenous cultures, since these cultures think in a similar vein - that lives are stories enacted in the world. In this talk, Dr. Mehl-Madrona will consider the relevance of this approach for mental health and discuss his use of this narrative paradigm with aboriginal people in Canada and the United States, comparing this approach to that of traditional elders in those cultures.
BIO: Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine (US). He completed both of his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont, where he currently resides in Brattleboro and serves as a core faculty to the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program at the Union Institute & University as well as practicing family medicine, geriatrics, and psychiatry. From his own Native American background, he has also studied extensively with traditional healers and combines knowledge from both worlds. He is the author of the Coyote trilogy (Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, Coyote Wisdom) about the wisdom that indigenous North American culture has to offer modern medicine, as well as Narrative Medicine and his most recent book, Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry.
All Welcome - NO RSVP REQUIRED
Contact Erminia Colucci for more information: ecolucci@unimelb.edu.au
So who was the first Gay in the Village?
A History of colourful Daylesford
Award winning local storyteller, social historian and writer Anne E Stewart has put her research skills into gear to uncover little known facts, legendary characters and the origins of the Chillout Festival. The show explores why and when our little village became so GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender) friendly.
Highlights include photos, documents and oral histories that tell the story of our town. Anne will also feature photos and discussion behind her last contribution to Chillout, the 2010 ‘St Dorothy of Daylesford’ float featuring the fabulous Miss Mille Minogue.
Where: The Convent Gallery Chapel
When: Saturday 12 March
Time: 3.30pm Altar Bar, Drinks available
Show: Starts 4pm
Tickets: $20
Contact: The Convent on 5348 321
pics: Dr Gwenyth Wiswould (Trentham Doctor)
Captain Moonlite (The Gay Bushranger)
Robert Lindsay (brother of Norman )