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CricketBeautiful
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Registration Date: 04-04-2004
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Buffy, thank you again for suggesting I join. The people are great and the evenings a delight!
The Storytellers had their annual By Word of Mouth event at the museum last night, in honour of World Storytelling Day.
http://guelpharts.ca/storytellers/docume..._07_evening.pdf
Thirty in the audience, a good many of whom were new.
We heard about people on roads, and feet with (and without) boots, and feet with fast shoes, a mid-life crisis on a skateboard, books and bunnies, cats who walk by themselves (mine!), vaudeville ties (neck-ties, that is), crickets in the city, and Gypsies who search. We heard quiet folk songs by a local artist, and about nightingales who sang.
The afternoon was geared towards schoolkids. Puppets Elora and Fule Badwao presented Anansi stories and African drumming. Even the cool senior kids were clapping along and arguing over whether Anansi or his wife should get the credit for bringing stories back to Earth.
Storytellers are great people. They enjoy. They encourage. They share.
It's sociable. The tellers mingle with the audience (who often enough are tellers themselves). We say "When I first heard that story, it was set in Russia." "Kevin tells the same story." "I like that story, may I tell it too?" (to which the answer is usually "yes") "Yes, it's a bit of work to learn the story; the trick is to start with a story you love."
An evening at a movie costs $20 for one story, which you may not like. An evening of stories costs maybe $10, for six or more, of which you're sure to enjoy most. No backbeat (although if the teller's African you're likely to leave humming). You leave, not enervated and unable to sleep for adrenaline, but contented and enlightened.
Only problem is ... you might get hooked.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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12-04-2007 16:05
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