Story Crossroads: The Newsletter Volume 9, Issue 42
Welcome to a short, more direct weekly newsletter * Week 1: Story of the Month - links with membership * Week 2: Upcoming
Events * Week 3: Cap's Off to You! - people/organization profiles * Week 4: Past & Future News
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Japanese-American, Greek & Peruvian Storytelling
We feature three community members each year as part of the State of the Art addresses with the upcoming Summit & Festival. They each have
roughly 15 minutes to talk about the past, present, and future of storytelling for their cultures. For the 2024 Summit & Festival, we have the following: Floyd Mori (Japanese-American); Mike Korologos (Greek); David Yauney (Peruvian). We started this annual tradition in 2021 and have enjoyed presentations from these cultures: Blind; Black; Navajo; Jewish; Muslim; and Deaf.
Separate Youth & Adult Virtual Premieres
We are pleased to expand the space of Story Crossroads to celebrate a range of life experiences as well as great stories that are not always great for elementary ages. Some content warnings will apply, though still appropriate for middle school ages and older. You'll want to get your Summit & Festival
ticket! We used to combine the youth and adult community tellers for what we dub as the "Virtual Field Trip" day of the Summit & Festival. "Field Trip" to us can be students to adults to a combination. Any group can technically be a field trip. We've had school groups to senior center groups join us. Picture above: Laurie Allen mentored
older adults at Summit Vista senior living. See a hint of who will be sharing as part of our premiere as well as adults from the Murray Storytelling Showcase.
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Bay Area Storytelling Festival (North)
Story Crossroads invites you to celebrate the Bay Area Storytelling Festival (North) that has in-person and virtual options. This also spotlights the Storytelling Association of California as a valued organizational member of Story Crossroads. The 33rd Bay Area Storytelling Festival will be held in 2024 at the beautiful Sonoma Academy in Santa Rosa, California. With sweeping views of the surrounding hills and a new, state-of-the-art 390-seat theater, it’s the perfect location to gather as a storytelling community. Featured tellers are Kealoha, Gene Tagaban, Karin Amano, Diane Ferlatte
and Brandon Spars. In addition to the new location, we’ve expanded the Festival to include Friday evening for our in-person audience. Saturday will be live-streamed and recorded, and will feature olios with all the tellers at the beginning and end of the day, along with concerts, youth tellers and workshops morning and afternoon, and will be available until the end of July.
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The Story Beast e-pub next deadline...May 15, 2024
Have you explored the two new sections of The Story Beast e-publication on "Surviving My Art" and "That's Amazing!" yet? Find out what these sections (and all of them) offer. Each issue of The Story Beast e-publication has a theme that
people can connect to...or not. All past issues can be found on The Story Beast website. We would love your submissions for our 2024 quarterly issues. We have upcoming themes for 2024 such as "Chaotic Creations" ( due May 15, 2024); "Flavored Fright" ( due August 15, 2024); and "Whirling Winds" ( due November 15, 2024). While this is a different entity than Story Crossroads, we are pleased to see this e-publication that is available for free for anyone and all over the world. All details can be found at storybeast.org. And...the Story Crossroads Executive Director happens to be the one that launched
the idea and worked along amazing people to have it come to pass.
On April 13, 2024, Lyn Ford taught "High School Storytelling, Classroom Community." She shared tried-and-true activities and approaches to working with teens. We practiced together and shared our questions to improve our connections with these fascinating students. You can order this workshop as well as
past recordings at http://storycrossroads.org/AllThingsStory (scroll to bottom). We needed to pause our 81st House Concert originally scheduled for April 19, 2024. We plan on rescheduling the "Eclipsed: A Journey of Totality" in Fall 2024. Statistically speaking,
we are amazed that we've never had to reschedule for 80 House Concerts! We knew it would happen at some point. So no worries...we will feature Nannette Watts soon. Meanwhile, our next House Concert (the new 81st House Concert) will spotlight the talents of Samantha Fox on June 28, 2024 as in-person in Riverton, Utah or live-streamed.
As for future events, we have at least two every month. We have our biggest event of the year, Summit & Festival (May 13-16 and viewing to June 15). Kathleen Santopietro will teach a
virtual workshop (June 1). Samantha Fox will be performing for our 81st House Concert (June 28).
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Enjoy a hint of what to expect with Lyn Ford's workshop "High School Storytelling, Classroom Community." See more videos at our YouTube Channel.
If you or someone you know has a story video that you want us to see, then let us know by emailing info@storycrossroads.org.
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