Episodes

  • Dave Tonge and interpreting history

    Dave Tonge and interpreting history
    Nov 14 2024
    Dave Tonge is a jobbing teller of tales. An itinerant journeyman who performs at festivals,museums, heritage sites and schools. From Lindisfarne Holy Island in the north, to ArundelCastle in the south, he works regularly for English Heritage and national museums like theAshmolean and British Museum. He has written three books, Tudor Folk Tales, NorfolkFolk tales for Children and Medieval Folk tales for Children, with a forth, Trickster TalesFrom Many Lands, due in 2025. Dave specialises in telling period rich and often irreverenttales shared by the poorer folk long ago, at heritage sites and is particularly interested inbringing storytelling to wider non storytelling audiences. But he can also be heard atstorytelling events including Taffy Thomas’s Tales in Trust, Festival at the Edge and SettleStorytelling Festival. That said, many of his performances still have an historical flavourwith sets like Tavern Yard Tales and Dame Fortunes Wheel.https://www.facebook.com/dave.tonge.3https://www.instagram.com/davetongestoryteller/Copies of my books can be brought via the History Press Website..
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/tudor-folk-tales/9780750991643/
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/norfolk-folk-tales-for-children/9780750984812/
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/medieval-folk-tales-for-children/9780750990943/
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    38 mins
  • Phil Greenwood and sacred landscapes

    Phil Greenwood and sacred landscapes
    Oct 31 2024
    Philip Greenwood is the founder and creative director of Sacred Earth Community Benefit Society, working through the mediums of deep nature connection, earth wisdom and ancient healing practices and processes. For the last 25 years i have been on a journey of restoration, healing myself while healing and working on restoring a disused industrial land site back into a nature sanctuary for people to connect to self, others and the natural world. Storytelling is part of my Craft as we discover what it means to be a whole hearted human being.www.sacredearthland.co.uk
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    35 mins
  • Liz Locksley and telling a new story

    Liz Locksley and telling a new story
    Oct 17 2024
    Liz is a storyteller and narrator of systems for life: food, water, energy, movement, community, hope, and spirit of the land.
    An engineer by training, and a storyteller by provenance, Liz grew up between worlds. Between Manchester's swagger of industrial ingenuity and a remote valley in the Yorkshire Dales where folk spoke in Norse dialect and roaring becks flowed with peat-brown water, coloured with tannins from ancient mosses.
    20 years ago, Liz was called by the far away land of Australia through memories of her Granny's tape-recorded tales of life in the Australian bush.

    Liz is an environmental consultant and sustainability project manager at City of Canada Bay Council.You can see her website here: Thrive Story
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    38 mins
  • Dee Palanisamy and trusting the stories

    Dee Palanisamy and trusting the stories
    Oct 3 2024
    Durgah Devi Palanisamy (Dee) is an international, multicultural storyteller and educator from Singapore, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Her boundless passion for the art of storytelling radiates through her captivating narratives, engaging and creating connections worldwide. She shares her love for Asian folktales and stories with audiences of all ages. With a background in speech and drama education, she skillfully weaves together tales that inspire, entertain, and educate. Her work includes personal and bilingual stories, tales for personal transformation, and more recently exploring rhythm in creative ways. Dee is also a coach/trainer and is grateful to connect with people and different communities through stories.
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    44 mins
  • Anna Jarrett and story inner work

    Anna Jarrett and story inner work
    Sep 19 2024
    Anna Jarrett is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, inspirational speaker,published author, recording artist, story consultant, teacher, trainer, writer andoutdoor guide, living on the south coast NSW, on Yuin country. With 35 years ofexperience in creative arts, performance, media production and education, Anna hasbeen a featured teller at storytelling events in USA, Singapore, New Zealand andaround Australia. Most recently Anna has focussed her projects close to home,developing a body of writing, community programs and photography work around thetheme of ‘Wild’, and exploring the essence of magic in natural landscapes andstoryscapes.As a Story Consultant, Anna designs and delivers custom programs for communityand organisational clients, specialising in storying content for communityengagement and education. Her work spans a wide range of story subjects andtakes many forms including films, books, guided tour scripts, museum audioinstallations, interpretive signs, live performances and photography exhibitions.Combining her passions for nature, indigenous perspectives, south coast ecology,education, community building and travel, Anna is creating new narratives andstorytelling that expresses multilayered and multi-media stories for our times. Herwork is respectfully inspired from traditional oral cultural stories, lived experiences,Australian landscapes and histories, memories, dreams, imagination andconversations with creatives and educators.More information:Watch Anna storytelling:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KflzDG9ICg8Research Anna's work with storytelling in education, as a contributing writer to'Storytelling Pedagogy in Australia and Asia', edited by Louise Gwenneth Phillips,Thao Thi Phuong Nguyen. Palgrave MacMilllan 2021https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-4009-4#tocWatch Anna's Artist Talk for her photography exhibition 'WIld! Patterns in Nature'https://vimeo.com/753725924Business Tags:Story Consultant, Storyteller, Trainer, Speaker, Author, Writer, Photographer,Recording Artist, Teacher, Communicator, Creative, Outdoor Guide,#storytelling #wildwalks #creativecommunications #caringforcountry #myth #imagination#culturalheritage #deepecology #education #nature #community #Yuincountry #artisttalks #narrative #fairytales #magic #conservation #community engagement #natureconnection #socialaction #changemaker #earth stories #naturalheritage #media #environment #shorebirds
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    59 mins
  • Jackie Kerin and crafting original stories

    Jackie Kerin and crafting original stories
    Sep 5 2024
    Jackie was born in Melbourne and set up home here in Newport almost 30 years ago after living in nearly every State and Territory in Australia, She’s been an actress and worked in theatre, film and television. A desire to choose which stories to tell led her to oral storytelling and later - to writing. To date, she’s written five non-fiction picture books for children. Jackie is passionate about the value of collaboration and building community through story sharing. She was president of Storytelling Australia Victoria for 4 years, currently enjoys a shared role (with Em Chandler and Adrian Newington) coordinating Newport Storytellers. Newport storytellers run a monthly open mike session and have produced podcasts & videos with local storytellers. In 2023 she represented the Newport team at a shared session on community & storytelling (with Kate Lawrence, founder of Story Wise Women) for the Federation of Asian Storytellers Conference - Jakarta. She attended my first fairy tale gathering in 2012 – The Monash Fairy Tale Salon, and two years later, was MC for the first Australian Fairy Tale Society Conference in NSW. In 2016, she delivered the keynote, Into the Bush: Its Beauty and Its Terror. As well as her books & storytelling, she creates stories in other forms like comic book making and Japanese Kamishibai.Find her website hereFor more information about Newport Storytellers, click here
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    52 mins
  • Rachel Hedman and building communities

    Rachel Hedman and building communities
    Aug 22 2024
    Rachel Hedman competed in storytelling as a sophomore high schooler in 1994. Everything went wrong with her first telling, and she considered quitting. By senior year, she received 5th in State (Wisconsin) for Storytelling. Rachel launched the BYU Storytelling Club as a freshman; it earned the Service Award. She became the first recipient of the J.J. Reneaux Mentorship grant from the National Storytelling Network, training with Don Doyle. For 15 years, Rachel mentored California high school tellers and received the Arne Nixon Storytelling Award from them. She has been Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance Co-Chair, National Youth Storytelling Showcase Board Member, and Utah Storytelling Guild President. Rachel received the national ORACLE Award for service and leadership in the Western Region and the Karen J. Ashton Award for storytelling service specifically in Utah. For eight years, she served the WSU Storytelling Festival, became Storyteller Chair, and started the Annual Youth Teller Reunion. Meanwhile, she completed her Storytelling Masters from East Tennessee State University. The adoption folktales thesis was defended two days before adopting two boys with her husband, Casey. They have since adopted a girl. She kickstarted Story Crossroads, a Salt Lake county storytelling festival in 2016 and continues to expand it with the dream of an Olympic-level six-day event called World Story Crossroads no later than 2030. Currently, Story Crossroads holds year-round events from live to virtual shared in the form of performances, workshops, camps, and trainings for youth to adults. Go to Story Crossroads at http://storycrossroads.org.
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    54 mins
  • Tim Sheppard and a profound tradition

    Tim Sheppard and a profound tradition
    Aug 8 2024
    From Tim: Long, long ago I was an acrobat in the New Circus revolution. Surprisingly that took me deeply into how to connect with people using narrative. That’s how I realised that story is at the heart of everything, and having the courage and technique to lead people through stories is deeply humanising.So I ran away from the circus to become a storyteller and later a coach. I founded and trained Wordweavers, blending traditional storytelling with improvised physical theatre. And for a decade I ran the first storytelling club in my region of the UK, drawing people into the new revival.Because my circus training was so transformational, turning me from being shy to a fearless authentic performer, I realised that intense fun equals deep learning. With the same approach I found I could teach people how to BE storytellers rather than simply how to tell stories.So for 35 years I have run workshops for beginners and professionals in the art of presence and connection, through experiential play, where people discover the psychology of being authentic, confident, spontaneous, and creating deep rapport, leading audiences through experiencing their stories.I love to unleash that authenticity, and help storytellers bring everyone closer together and create community. I train storytellers to take themselves and audiences deeper because I believe the storyteller’s superpowers of giving hope, inspiration, and even wisdom are much needed in the world.In 1995, as the Web was being born, those values led me to create the Storytelling FAQ, which became the largest collection of storyteller resources on the net, to spread storytelling and connect the world’s storytellers. Now I run the global celebration World Storytelling Day each March, for the same reasons, and I’ve advocated for storytellers through giving international conference keynotes and workshops.It pains me that many storytellers still can’t make a living from their art, especially when they already hold the secrets to a thriving business but instead keep their rare skills confined to the stage. So I’ve been developing a coaching system to help tellers put the heartfelt values of storytelling to work for their entrepreneurial success. I believe every storyteller deserves to recapture their traditional place at the heart of society. I love how storytellers’ warm, intimate, authentic communication creates community and meaning, inspires collaboration, and overcomes people's distance and differences.I've always been fascinated by how entrepreneurs turn nothing into something. What struck me most was how closely aligned their core secrets and principles are to how traditional oral storytellers learn to practise our art – we have the advantage!So although many storytellers find themselves being starving artists, I realized that with some little breakthrough shifts in perspective we can apply our heartfelt values and practices to create a thriving storytelling business out of nothing, using the most successful method taught to top businesses. So I'm now launching a coaching system to help tellers get paid what they’re really worth.For years I’ve been coaching purpose-driven entrepreneurs to connect more authentically with the world, get the spark that lights up their audience, and build a loyal tribe, for deep social impact through storytelling. In my work training changemakers and social entrepreneurs to engage and lead movements with authentic storytelling, I keep thinking ‘storytellers already have greater ability in this just waiting to be applied – let’s get paid to make the world more human!’My other current project is to offer a course in the Lost Language of Fairytale Symbolism, in how to unpick the surprisingly deep meaning, way beyond the modern psychological interpretations, that has kept people fascinated by the resonance of these tales through the millennia. Fairytales are what first drew me into a lifelong fascination and study of ancient symbolism. Now I’ve turned to tracing the transmission of that symbolism from its original mythology and philosophy into the format of traditional fairy tales. I’ve been astounded as I’ve unearthed the specific and profound message that the oral traditions have always consciously embedded in those tales, and want to share!Website: www.timsheppard.co.ukAlways happy to chat or help at facebook.com/timsheppard
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    56 mins