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Rocky Mountain Storytellers' Conference Spinning Tales - Weaving Stories Broomfield Auditorium & Library 3 Community Park Road Broomfield, Colorado Friday and Saturday, April 23-24, 2004 Conference Schedule |
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NOTE: Lunch is included with full day admissions and full conference admissions. Charge for others is $8. |
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| Friday 8:00-8:45 a.m. | Registration |
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Registration continues throughout the day. | |
| Friday 8:45-9:00 a.m. | Conference Opening |
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Welcome and Music
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RMSC President Carl Ruby; Roberta Depp, Directory of Library Services, Broomfield Library; and Br'n the Bagpiper |
| Friday 9:00-9:50 a.m. | Opening General
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Spinning Tales - Weaving Stories. The Spinning and Weaving WEB-sters
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Lev Ropes (Grandbear the Storyteller), Mike Heroy (Smokey Roundhouse), Brian Turner (Br'n the Bagpiper), and Ed Winograd (Shmuel the Storyteller). |
| Friday 10:10-10:55 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions I |
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Joy Madison Carter Makes Noise. This is a spun story about a little girl who likes to make noise! This program includes the story, rhythm instruction, and a song and dance. Interactive fun for all ages! | Sondra Singer |
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Workshop: Finding Your Storytelling Voice Through Puppetry. A storyteller must find a voice that works. My voice was found through 9-foot giant puppets. Watch a performance of "Queen Lion of Africa" and explore the process of using puppetry to find a comfortable storytelling voice. | Diane Gasch | |
| Concurrent Sessions I |
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From One Side of the World to the Other and Every Place In-Between. Flights of fancy and back again. Molly finds a story in every pocket. Fables, multicultural tales, autobiographical recollections, and stories to draw laughter as quickly as a tear. All in this fun and thought-provoking presentation. | Molly Harris | |
| Friday 11:15 a.m.-12 noon | Concurrent Sessions II |
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Storytelling: Child's Play. Carlson Elementary students (ages 6-12) will perform stories and songs, as well as activities used while learning stories. Teacher-coaches will explain how our group runs and answer questions related to storytelling in elementary school. | Clear Creek County (Idaho Springs) Public Schools Tellers (25 students from Carlson Elementary) |
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Workshop: Let's Spin and Weave Together: Adapting a Story to Expand Your Storytelling Skills for Even More Success! Come and explore using some adapting tools to add pizzazz to a story. Tools include creating dialogues and adding clarifying descriptions, movement, and cultural markers, thereby creating a winning story that you can use immediately. | Nora J. Heaton | |
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Mexican-Irish Connection: History of the San Patricios. Geraldina, a Latina storyteller from Laredo, will tell the stories of the Irishmen who fought on the side of Mexico during the Mexican-American War of 1846. | Geraldina Lawson | |
| Friday 12 noon - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
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Please do not take food into the Auditorium. | |
| Friday 1:00-1:50 p.m. | General
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"Is That True?" The Storyteller's most frequently asked question. Hear the inside story. The warp: folk and literary tales. The weft: personal experience that conforms to the warp in an uncanny way. Stories offer invaluable guidance to our psyches. Perhaps this program will trigger memories of your own guiding stories. | Featured Storyteller: Susan Marie Frontczak |
| Friday 2:15-3:00 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions III |
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Workshop: The Business of Storytelling. Find out the common and not-so-common facts about storytelling as a real job from a professional fulltime storyteller. Bob Gasch is internationally known and actually makes a living telling tales. | Bob Gasch |
| Concurrent Sessions III |
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Workshop: We are the Story: An Engaging Journey of Self and Story. How do our life stories impact our chosen tales? Come on a journey, immersed in deeper meaning that our paths have on our life-work as storytellers. We will delve into inter-relationships of story and life. | Cherie Karo Schwartz | |
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Travel Tales - Tall and True. Missed planes! Lost baggage! Rental car flat tires! We all have travel tales and suitcase sagas to tell. Come to laugh, sigh, maybe cry (tears of laughter?!), and certainly identify with Pam's hilarious travel misadventures. | Pam Faro | |
| Friday 3:15-4:00 p.m. | General
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Panel: Telling Stories From a Culture Other Than Your Own. This panel will address the ways to be respectful when we as storytellers tell a story from a culture other than our own. | Narrated by Kathy Totten, with Cassandra Sewell, Jessica Bourdeaux-Vigil, Geraldina Lawson, and Ed Winograd |
| Friday 4:15-5:15 p.m. | General
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Looking for Some Long Time Friends. Celebrating the Human Experience with Poetry, Story, and Song. | Angela Lloyd |
| Friday 5:00-7:30 p.m. | Dinner on your own | |||
| Friday 7:30-9:30 p.m. | Storytelling Showcase, FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Arrive early to be assured a seat! Children are welcome. |
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Between The Lines: Stories and Songs for the Journey. | Featured Storytellers: Susan Marie Frontczak and Angela Lloyd |
NOTE: Lunch is included with full day admissions and full conference admissions. Charge for others is $8. |
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| Saturday 8:00-8:45 a.m. | Annual Business Meeting and Board Election |
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RMSC Board members for 2004-2005 will be selected at this meeting. All RMSC members are welcome to vote, and to run, for these positions. | |
| Saturday 9:00-9:50 a.m. |
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Unraveling the Yarn. What designs are tied up in our memories? What stories shall I choose to unravel from the tangle? What can I weave with the thread that remains? | Featured Storyteller: Susan Marie Frontczak |
| Saturday 10:10-10:55 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions I |
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Tales of Peace. This session presents "Peace Tales" from many different cultures, with the focus on how our minds, our hearts, and the world we live in can be changed through story. | Leah Alexander |
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Workshop: A Tapestry of Family Stories. Discovering the family story to spin and weave into the final tapestry is the basis of this workshop. Finding stories, adding details to the stories, and a practical demonstration with handouts are included in this presentation. | John Beach | |
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My Son, Abe. Gather round the wood fire's blaze and warm your heart with the story of Abraham Lincoln, whose passion for literacy knew no bounds. Share with Sarah Lincoln the laughter and tears encountered along the road from log cabin to White House. | Virginia Fox | |
| Saturday 11:15 a.m.-12 noon | Concurrent Sessions II |
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Ganesha's Lesson: Stories from the Yogic Traditions. Yoga is more than physical exercise. It's also mental and spiritual. Sydney weaves Yoga philosophy into retellings of traditional Hindu and Buddhist stories, which guide the listener toward enlightenment and greater understanding of the self. | Sydney Solis |
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Say, "I CAN!" Paper or plastic? The answer may surprise you! Experience how adventure stories of women from the past and present can inspire an intergenerational audience to say, "I can!" Kathryn authored the popular audiobook, Ordinary Women with Extraordinary Spirit!® | Kathryn Beisner | |
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Let's Get Personal. Do your memories get stuck like chewing gum in your hair? Want to tell personal stories but - where to begin? We'll spark the creative fires, explore internal photograph albums, and mold memories into stories worth telling and hearing. | Kate Lutz | |
| Saturday 12 Noon-1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
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There will be two lunch shifts, 12:00-12:45, and 12:15-1:00. For each lunch shift, there will also be a 15-minute performance by the Rocky Mountain Dancers, a youth square dance group. Please do not take food into the Auditorium. |
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| Saturday 1:00-1:50 p.m. | General
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Making Our Way Home: Words and Music for the Road. | Featured Storyteller: Angela Lloyd |
| Saturday 2:15-3:00 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions III |
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Weaving the Story Strands of Many Cultures into the Fabric of our Community. Tales from Colorado's many cultures will be told by volunteer storytellers from Colorado's nine chapters. Spellbinder chapters are expanding throughout Colorado, serving schools, libraries, and other community facilities. Learn how to become a Spellbinder. | Spellbinders |
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Workshop: Biblical Storytelling. Teachers, parents, grandparents, and friends can learn techniques and get ideas on how to tell stories in a way that teaches while creating interest and excitement. While the emphasis is on Biblical storytelling, most techniques apply to all types of storytelling. | Eldon Halingstad | |
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Living Between Two Worlds: Weaving Different Parts of Ourselves Together Into One Story. Many of us live in two worlds. These worlds can be spiritual, cultural, racial, etc. Susan will bring alive the joys and challenges of weaving different worlds into our daily lives. Stories will reflect personal, biographical, and folk tale sources. | Susan Kaplan | |
| Saturday 3:15-4:00 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions IV |
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Best Quilting Story Blocks. Quilting, as I see it, in story. Memories from my scrap basket. Personal narratives pieced together with a palette of color and texture to enlarge the family and expand the view. | Sunny Marie Hackman |
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Cric Crac. An open storytelling session. Come to tell a story, or just to listen. | ||
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Weaving Environments and Stories for the Very Young (2-1/2 through preschool). Mary will share strategies that capture the eyes, ears, and minds of very young children for a successful storytelling experience. She'll also share stories that work well with young audiences. | Mary Hunter (The Story Weaver) | |
| Saturday 4:15-5:15 p.m. | Closing General
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Spider and the Web of the World. Stories and songs of Spider, patron of storytellers, spinners, and weavers, as the bringer of light, wisdom, and the love of beauty, as the trickster and adventurer, and as the problem solver from around the world. Yes, there are beautiful songs about spiders? Active participation with music, a "Spider Chant," and the actual spinning of a web out of ribbon.
Participants are encouraged to bring an instrument of music to enhance this session. As the story folks leave the Conference they will become a part of this actual storytelling web spun with their efforts. They will then go out and weave their stories. Spinning Tales - Weaving Stories! |
Featured Guest Teller Julie Davis, and All the People of the Conference |
Send e-mail to the Conference Committee
Or call Carl Ruby at 303-426-7592
Featured Storytellers - Academic Credit - How to Get There Print a Flyer |
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This page last modified on April 16, 2004 by Ed Winograd
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