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The Charms and Challenges of Genre in Storytelling

 

 

Crafting the One-Person Show 

 

 

 

 

It’s All Relative – Finding Stories in Your Family History 

 

Enjoy a Roman myth told by Jim Luter who recently passed away. This piece is part of the Story Crossroads Academy. The last three videos are showing what you can look forward to with Milbre Burch's virtual workshop "The Charms and Challenges of Genre in Storytelling" on October 9, 2021 as well as teasers of our latest article by Alton Chung and e-workbook by Carol Esterreicher for Story Crossroads Memberships.

If you or someone you know has a story video that you want us to see, then let us know by emailing [email protected].

On September 6, 2021, Jeff Gere was dedicated enough to have sound check at 4:30am and start his virtual workshop at 5:00am due to being from Hawai'i. All of us were grateful to his commitment as well as the energy and attention he gave to expanding our minds on how to better engage our audiences through the screen. This was highly interactive and quite the workout. And worth every moment!

We had our 54th House Concert on September 17, 2021 with Elaine Brewster and the Express Mail Fiddlers. They did have to compete with some stadium cheers due to being Homecoming weekend...though Elaine wove that into the stories. Still, we learned so much more about the Pony Express and Elaine's family history connection. The musicians were delightful and was a type of reunion due to the pandemic. Thank you to the Young Family for hosting. 

Dr. Csenge Zalka always attracts the crowd of 40 registrants (and 10 more after-the-fact) as we celebrated her accomplishment of reading 200 collections of folktales from 200 countries. She shared insight on what was similar as well as the countries that were most difficult to even find one story let alone a collection. There was never a pause as people asked questions led by Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald.

We had our 55th House Concert on October 1, 2021 with Cherie Davis sharing ghostly legends of Salt Lake City. One of our neighbor kids kept talking about it the whole next day (as reported by the Mom). She sold a few copies of "Spooks and Saints" to delighted fans...and a couple people already had her book before attending. We will remember those ghost children, the one who thought he was all-powerful, and the cursed gravedigger. Thank you to the Hedman Family for hosting. 

We appreciate the permission from Steve Evans to use his world photojournalist pictures. He as well as other talented people are found on the Honored Artists page.

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