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Our Traditional Parts of the Newsletter
* Latest News
* Cap's Off to You! (people or organization profiles who use story)
* Story Videos (created or loved by us)
* Story
* Story Game
A different email list features Virtual Storytelling (adapted from Utah storytelling events temporarily) including, though not limited to, Story Crossroads. Click here for the archive.
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Big Announcement:
Memberships effective
Jan. 1, 2021...apply now
House Concert - outdoors winter
"Ode to Story Under the Full Moon" - Dec. 28
will also be filmed...if too cold or far for you
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We have this traditional storytelling experience outdoors at the Hurley Home backyard at 143 West 5900 South, Murray, UT 84107. Masks are required. Pre-Registration is required. Dress warm with blankets. Seating is with bonfire (but distancing) and sitting upon tree stumps.
More Details: Go to http://www.storycrossroads.org/HouseConcerts
Suggested Donation for All House Concerts: $15.00+/person, $25.00+/household, can come whether or not you donate but registration is required, best ages 10+
49th Story Crossroads Fundraising House Concert
Date/Time: Monday, December 28, 2020, 7:00pm-8:00pm MST
Featured Presenters and Story Artist: Katherine Hurley (youth teller), David Hurley (history of storytelling during winter time), Karl Behling (Story Artist)
Theme: "Ode to Story Under the Full Moon"
Dress warm and huddle in your blankets as you have a traditional storytelling experience around a fire…yet still proper-distanced and masked. Storytelling gave hope and light during a dark and long winter. Award-winning youth teller Katherine Hurley will share a piece followed by history and symbolism of story during the long nights presented by David Hurley. Finally, we explore winter and the role of the storyteller through performances
by long-time and engaging teller Karl Behling.
Click here to save your seat for the live Dec. 28 House Concert
Click here to rent recording afterwards now & up until Feb. 14, 2021
Go directly to the Story Crossroads House Concerts page
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Recordings available of Live House Concerts
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We are pleased to offer--for the first time--recordings of our live house concerts with closed captioning. Due to distance or your comfort level, video can be another way to experience high-quality art.
Recordings are only available for two weeks from the launch date. Thus, you can still rent the recordings on the last possible day knowing the video link will disappear by midnight Mountain Time.
These dates vary from story artist to story artist. Early ordering gives more time to view or to re-watch before the link “disappears.”
The following featured story artists, available to order now:
Bradley Mackay - “The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep”
Available to view through Unlisted YouTube link from November 1-14, 2020
Karl Behling with Katherine & David Hurley - "Ode to Story Under the Full Moon"
Available to view through Unlisted YouTube link from February 1-14, 2021
More Details: http://www.storycrossroads.org/recordings
Go directly to the Story Crossroads Recordings page
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Virtual Workshop - December 5, 2020
Coaching Performers & Storytellers
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Saturday, December 5, 2020 9-10:30am Mountain Time - held through Zoom
Convert to your time zone: https://tinyurl.com/timezone-NannetteWorkshop
Sliding Scale Tuition: $5 minimum, $25 suggested donation, on up to $50
Coaching performers and storytellers can feel intimidating. Am I doing this right? Is there more I could help them with? What should I be looking for? Gain confidence, whether you coach student storytellers, those in your community, or people who want to tell stories better. Learn tips, tricks, and ideas to gain skills, from one who has taught hundreds of youth storytellers and many adults as well.
Professional Development certificate shared afterwards
Go directly to registration page for Nannette's Workshop
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Virtual Workshop - January 9, 2021
Hidden Gems
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Saturday, January 9, 2021, 2020 9-10:30am Mountain Time - held through Zoom
Convert to your time zone: https://tinyurl.com/timezone-HeatherWorkshop
Sliding Scale Tuition: $5 minimum, $25 suggested donation, on up to $50
Hidden Gems Transitions—the moments in a story where we shift between one thought and the next—are hidden gems tucked away in a story well told. Whether you’re your family’s unofficial historian or a professional teller, learning to master these moments will give your stories extra polish and finesse. This workshop will teach you how to identify and develop the transitions within your stories by practicing techniques with voice and body language.
Registration to open soon, check here!
Professional Development certificate shared afterwards
Go directly to the All Things Story page
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5-hour Intensive Virtual Workshop
with
Dr. Csenge Zalka
as part of
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Starting December 1, 2020...
you can register for Dr. Csenge Zalka's Virtual Workshop
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE – THE HOW AND WHY OF RESEARCHING STORIES
Featured Presenter: Dr. Csenge Zalka, click on name for bio and/or read Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Csenge Zalka
Location:
Your Computer, Zoom, see our 5-minute Zoom Basics Video
Cost:
$100/person, deadline to apply for payment plan (pay $25 for 4 times once a month) is January 1, 2021. Registration itself opens December 1, 2021. Though breaks will be provided, prepare your lunch so you can relax more the day of the virtual workshop
Professional Development certificate shared afterwards
Feel free to email info@storycrossroads.org or call/text 801-870-5799 with any questions or comments directed to Rachel Hedman.
Go directly to the 5-hour Intensive Virtual Workshop webpage
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Story Crossroads on Twitch
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We changed our weekly live-streaming from Twitch on Tuesdays, 9:00am-9:30am Mountain Time. Hear a story at the end. Discover the behind-the-scenes of transforming and adapting during this historic time. Join us as much or as little as you like. You can view whether or not you have a free account. Yet, if you get a free
account, you will then be able to chat as Twitch tends to be informal and has an enormous performing arts scene.
Go directly to the Story Crossroads Twitch
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Celebrating House Concert
in September & October
Featuring Nannette Watts and Bradley Mackay
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We knew Nannette Watts would be engaging for all...but we did not expect the surprise of her showing family pictures afterwards that connected to the stories we barely heard. We appreciate that special touch. She proved her "English" side of her while recognizing more of her Irish on September 18, 2020.
Bradley Mackay was new to the house concert stage and relatively new to the storytelling stage, but he obviously used his drama and theatrics as he transformed to many different characters. He kept his promise of delving into the woods with these stories and starting with "lovely" and then going to the "dark and deep" on October 9, 2020.
Go directly to the House Concerts page on Story Crossroads
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Celebrating All Things Story
Virtual Workshop Series
October 6, 2020
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Julie Barnson gave us a frightful time of delight on October 6, 2020. We learned how to better watch our audience when things get "too scary," even for adults. See our happy faces and then our scary ones. We had six different states and two different countries represented in attendance.
Go directly to the All Things Story page
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Celebrating All Things Story
Virtual Workshop Series
November 7, 2020
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Antonio Rocha promised we'd have a "blast," and he was right. He had so many expressions and movements that had us re-think how to approach characters or moments within our stories. We had 38 people with 10+ time zones as well as people from India, Dubai, Sweden, and Brazil.
Go directly to the All Things Story page
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Latest Blog Series by Story Crossroads
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We are posting more often on the blog and here are the latest--
- What We Learned from Proper-Distanced Events
- 5-part series
- Distancing & Spacing; Sanitation & Other Safety Measures; Test Runs & Early Set-Ups; Relief to Potential Audience; Audience Isolation Behaviors
- Coming soon - "What We Learned from Timpanogos Storytelling & Virtual Offerings"
- 9-part series
- Pre-Recorded vs. Live; Inside the Program; ASL & its Presence/Absence; Emcees & "Making it Personal"; Use of the Screen by Story Artists; Art of Binge-Watching; Favorites from Featured Tellers; Featured vs. Guests; Use of Encore
We continue our "Cap's Off to You!" series, the annual "A to Z Blog Challenge" in April plus a few others surprises. You can even follow the blog so you get an email anytime a new posting is there.
Go directly to the Story Crossroads blog
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Celebrating your way of using story
Featuring: Anneliese Konkol
Storyteller, Actress, Friend
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Anneliese Konkol has been on my mind lately. When we shared different Story Artists who have passed on, she was one of the first names I honored. I was honored for her daughter to grant me with a whole bin of props and items that she used when telling stories on stage. The sister promised me that Anneliese herself wished me to have these things when she was fading
in the hospital. While she lay there, I was given the room alone. I sung the song "Barges" as my parting gift to her as she already had given so much to mean with her friendships, many one-on-one chats in Wendy's and a burger, and planning of the Weber State University Storytelling Festival.
The following interview is thanks to fellow Storyteller and Story Crossroads Board Member Laurie Allen that took place many years ago. Some of this has been on display during the Weber State University Storytelling Festival.
As Laurie Allen explained -
Anneliese Konkol was a premier storyteller in the Ogden and northern Utah area for many years. She learned the art of storytelling from her mother and an aunt in her native Germany. Story was used to help keep the children calm while spending time in the air raid shelters during World War II. Anneliese was also a professional actress on the stage in Berlin and taught at Weber State University.
Find out more the impact that Anneliese Konkol had and will continue to have for storytelling (click below or on picture).
Read the Complete Blog Post on Anneliese Konkol
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Story Videos of the Month
We recently learned that Philippa Kabali-Kagwa won 2nd place for the Ultimate Storyteller Contest through Hadithi Ya Africa. She had given many TEDx Talks including the one below. You can subscribe to her
YouTube.
The last is an invite and hint from Nannette Watts as to "Coaching Performers & Storytellers" through our All Things Story Virtual Workshop Series coming on December 5, 2020.
If you or someone you know has a story video that you want us to see, then let us know about it and email us a link to it. Who knows? Perhaps we will be inspired to invite you to one of our Story Crossroads event? Remember that the 6th Annual Story Crossroads Festival is May 10-13, 2021.
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Artwork by Rowan North, captofthebast@gmail.com,
The Giant Inchworm, from Cherokee tribe
Inchworms are normally small with barely-there legs. Yet, one time, there was a giant inchworm that had legs that stretched out like tree trunks. If the giant inchworm stood still, hardly anyone could tell if it was an inchworm or a tree. The giant inchworm hunted in this disguised way, hungry for humans. For those who survived, this giant inchworm became known as Ustahli.
Mainly, Ustahli ate the women when the men themselves were out hunting.
The people decided that they must come up with a plan to rid themselves of Ustahli. A fire was built. They placed rocks around the edges to appear as people huddled together. The men pretended to leave for a hunt. This alerted Ustahli high in the mountains.
Ustahli stretched for and snatched a rock, thinking it was one of the women. When chomping down, the giant inchworm jumped back in surprise as this was not human flesh. This shook his balance and he fell into the fire. All of his legs burned off. All of nature knew this was just as this was punishment for all the people--especially women--that he consumed. Thus, the giant inchworm was consumed.
If you look at an inchworm today, you can barely see the legs and only see them in the front and the back.
Artwork by Rowan North, captofthebast@gmail.com,
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"Rocks Around the Fire"
Inspired by story "The Giant Inchworm"
Geared for Ages 10+
Gather rocks or several items to represent rocks. Place them in a circle. You need the same number of slips of paper as the number of rocks. On slips of paper that can fit under them (can fold smaller or have the size of your thumb), write "H" for half of them and "R" for the other half. The "H" represents "Human" while the "R" represents "Rock." One person is the Giant Inchworm. That person closes their eyes. The other people--can be 1 other person
or as many as 20--hides either an "H" or "R" under each rock. The Giant Inchworm uncovers their eyes or returns to the room. That person chooses a rock. If that person sees an "H," then the Giant Inchworm gets stronger and chases the people until one can be tagged/caught and "eaten." The more dramatic the acting, the better. The Giant Inchworm can choose another rock. If that person sees an "R," then the Giant Inchworm shakes as if burning. The other people cheer and celebrate with someone
sharing a 30-second to 1-minute victory story so that this can be remembered always. The Giant Inchworm can choose who will do this improv story. Though...if all the people have been chase/caught/"eaten," then the Giant Inchworm can tell the 30-second to 1-minute victory story for his future Inchworm posterity. Adapt this game as necessary. You can then rotate or choose a different Giant Inchworm.
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Funders of Story Crossroads
We appreciate funding from National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Utah Division of Arts and Museums (UDAM), Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), Utah Humanities, South Jordan Arts Council, City of Murray-Cultural Arts, ZAP-Zoo, Arts, & Parks of Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City
Arts Council, Casey and Rachel Hedman and many generous individuals who have made things possible.
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