The National Storytelling Network Presents Hawaii's very first TALK STORY CONFERENCE

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The National Storytelling Network Presents Hawaii's very first TALK STORY CONFERENCE
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Type: Special Event
Date: 7/19/2009-7/20/2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m
Location:
Queen Kapiolani Hotel
150 Kapahulu Ave
Honolulu, HI 96815
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Cost: Free

The National Storytelling Network
Presents the ‘Pacific Region’
TALK STORY CONFERENCE
July 16-20, 2009
WAIKIKI, HONOLULU, HAWAI'I
Queen Kapi'olani Hotel

E KOMO MAI! Come to Hawai'i in July for the very first TALK STORY STORYTELLING CONFERENCE. The National Storytelling Network (NSN) presents Hawaii’s best tellers & the most compelling, exciting, & provocative workshops & shows from the Pacific Rim & ‘Mainland’ America!

“Aloha! At every NSN Conference I’ve attended, people ask me, ‘when’ll there be a Conference in Hawai'i?’ Well, THIS is IT! I’m SO EXCITED to share our unique storytellers with America and to have SO MANY GREAT talents coming to Oahu! WHAT a DYNAMIC LINE-UP ! This is gonna be BIG FUN! I do hope to ‘talk story’ with you too in Hawai’i this July. Come- e komo mai.”

Jeff Gere, Conference Director

YES, 3 Intensives (3 hours) (& Master Coaching) Thursday.
YES, 3 Workshops 3 times each day for 3 days!
YES, General Session Keynotes & Hawaii daily after meals.
YES, Story Swaps & Shows each night.
YES, Sunday Concert of National Tellers!
Eth-Noh-Tec, Jim May, Diane Ferlatte, Anne Glover,
Margaret Read MacDonald, Bobby Norfolk
YES, Sunday night Story Music & dancing.
YES, Time to ‘talk story’ (3 group meals a day).
YES, Product Store area (& Monday Swap Meet).
YES, Short Excursions during & Musem Excursions after.

Our 'home' will be the Queen Kapi'olani Hotel. Waikiki Beach is a short block away (an easy walk for spouses and kids less involved in storytelling). It is across the street from the Zoo and Kapiolani Park. Their Peacock Room (site for most meals and general sessions) features huge sliding floor-to-ceiling glass doors opening onto a large deck (great for swaps) overlooking trees to a spectacular view of Diamond Head! Most Workshops, the Sunday Concert, and some meals will occur in the more spacious Akala Room.

Costs: Airfare will be a major financial commitment. We've worked to keep Conference fees low while offering a DYNAMITE Conference:

Conference Fee ($143, higher after 5/1/09)

& Full Meal Plan ($180 Thurs lunch to Mon Bkfst)

= GRAND TOTAL of $333.00

Shared Room- $42/night on up

KAMA AINA RATES: $100 Full Conference
($35/day, $30 for students & librarians)
FULL MEALS (12 meals) $180, or order per meal
PayPal Registration on website
www.nsntalkstoryconference.com

Three more days of O'ahu Story Field Trips are planned and four days on Maui. Full Programs, Activity Descriptions & Registration Forms: www.nsntalkstoryconference.com
or on the NSN ‘Year of the Regions’ website: www.storynet.org/events/yearofregions.html
or email talkstoryhawaii@gmail.com for more information.
We want to include you!

3 workshop strands:

Mainland Storytelling performances & workshops from all America:

Maine, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio.
Pacific Rim Workshops & performances from Australia, Thailand,

Japan, Canada, and the West Coast
Hawai'i’s best Storytellers share in General Sessions & workshops.

Since they rarely travel, you won’t hear them anywhere else!

July 16 Thursday Intensives

10 a.m.-5 p.m.	Ongoing Registration
Noon	Lunch (1st Conference Meal)
1-5 p.m.	Master Coaching Session - Jim May ($100/hour added cost)
1-5 p.m.	‘Getting Bigger’ Media Pow-Wow!- Story Media (radio, TV, photo, recording, pod casts) aiming to create a story radio web channel. Eric Wolf & Jeff Gere Inside Story in Outside World: Creativity & Storymaking (fingerpainting, clay, poetry, & new tales) Dr. Nancy King & Dr. Claudia Reder (author/educator/tellers) Shifting Paradigms: Exploring the Capacity of Storytelling to Heal - Lani Peterson (Mass.) psychologist/storyteller, NSN Healing Alliance
5-pm	Free Time
6 pm	Opening Dinner
7 pm	Hawaiian Welcoming Ceremony - Traditional Polynesian social ritual adapted by protocol authority Dr. Emil Wolfgramm to welcome Conference participants.
8:30 p.m.	Improvization Storytelling– ‘learn by doing’ make up a tale- Ruth Halpern Swap Themes: Creation Tales, Sweet ‘n Sour Love

July 17 Friday

6-8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Ancient Hawai'i: Gods, History & Legends –Emil Wolfgramm, Lopaka Kapanui, ‘Tita’ Kathy Collins,. Tom Cummings,
10 a.m.	Marshall Islander Tales- Dan Kelin III taught drama & collected for 5 summers  Chinese Teahouse Storytelling & Me- Cathryn Fairlee (Calif. NSN Board) The Long & Short Of It: Story Adaptations- Ruth Stotter (Calif.)
Noon	Lunch
1 p.m.	Hula is Storytelling- hear, see & dance hula (Oh yes you can!)
2 p.m.	Tongan Epic Tales: Revealing Deep Waters- Emil Wolfgramm Content Area Storytelling – Linda Martin Rocky Mountain Tellers: Kate Lutz & Kathy Hunter
3:30 p.m.	Mo’o Legends (water lizard women) - Alohalani Brown (Doctorate) Technology Tellings- Eric Wolf (Ohio) www.storytellingwithchildren.com String Stories (Why Knot?)- Anne Glover (Victoria)
5pm	Free Time
6:30 p.m.	Dinner
7:30 p.m.	Keynote: From Generation to Generativity- Sherry Norfolk, NSN Board Chair
8:30 p.m.	Nu Wa Tours Ethnohtec powerpoint talk of tours to China, Singapore, India Swaps: Gigs from Hell, Earth Tales , Historical Tales

July 18 Saturday

6-8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Historic Hawai'i – Lopaka Kapanui, Barbara Kawakami, Alton Chung, Daniel Martinez (National Park Service). Guest: Makia Malo- (Kalaupapa, Molokai)
10 a.m.	Life Tales- Hawai’i’s Picture Brides- Barbara Kawakami In The Beginning: Starting to Tell Stories- Sandra MacLees (Big Island) Bridges: Zipes & Folktales In Hawai’i’s Classroom- Dan Kelin, Mauli Cook
Noon	Lunch
1 p.m.	Keynote: Stories of Kindness - Margaret Read MacDonald, author/teller
2 p.m.	Transformational Storytelling- Nancy Wang (Eth-Noh-Tec, California) WW II Japanese-American Soldiers: Oral history to Stage. Video- Alton Chung Fractured Thought & Folk Tales-make one up with Marliyn Kinsella
3:30 p.m.	Pearl Harbor Oral Histories- Daniel Martinez (National Park Servfice) I’m Good Now Hire Me (Marketing)- Linda Gorham (Illinois) Japanese Ghosts & Supernatural Tales- Masako Sueyoshi (Japan)
5:00pm	Free Time: Waikiki History Walking Tour (Lopaka Kapanui)
6:30 p.m.	Dinner
7:30 p.m.	Island Spookies! (with piano improvisations by Les Adam) ‘Tita’ Kathy Collins, Lopaka Kapanui, Jeff Gere- born on Halloween, he attracts supernatural tales Ed Chevy- deaf teller, performs Edgar Allan Poe classics
9 pm	Swaps: Kindness, Spookies, Historical Tales

July 19 Sunday

6-8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Hawaii Now: Nyla Fujii-Babb - deep family history & ‘pidgin’ (Hawai'i’s creole English). ‘Tita’ Kathy Collins, Hawai'i Slam Poets/ Youth Speaks- Oahu has USA’s largest monthly slam poetry event & the national high school champions.
10 a.m.	Slam Poetry Class- creative poetry workout with Kealoha, Brenda Kwon, Cee Hidden Memory: Family History to Performance- Anne Shimojima (Illinois) Personal Narrative, Culture & Myth- Jim May (Illinois)
Noon	Lunch
1 p.m.	Keynote: The Storyteller’s Journey- Lani Peterson, psychologist/storyteller
2p.m.	History Mystery: Murder from Many Angles- Annie Eyers (Australia) Pidgin: Telling In Hawai'i Creole- local dialect history/ stories Nyla Fujii-Babb In Your Face- Rubber Face s of Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, Bobby Norfolk, Jeff Gere
3:30pm	Free Time
4:30p.m.	Public Concert of National Tellers: Diane Ferlatte, Jim May, Bobby Norfolk, Anne Glover, Margaret Read MacDonald, Eth-Noh-Tec
6:30 p.m.	Dinner
7:30 p.m.	Dancing to “Doolin’ Rakes” & James McCarthy- rockin’ Irish Storyt Band with James McCarthy, musical stories & musical guests.
9:30-11 p.m.	Swaps Musical Tells, Peace Tales, Edgy Late Night Tales

July 20 Monday

6-8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30-9:30	Thai Storytelling : Collecting, Presenting & Cherishing A Heritage Dr.Wajuppa Tossa & Prasong Saihong run English Storytelling Camps & folk tale reclamation projects in rural Thailand.
9:30-10	Traditional Thai Farewell - a string is tied to the wrist with a blessing.
10-11	Swap Meet (bring used story CDs, T shirts, books, dolls, props to trade & sell) final exchanges & product returns. & Alohas.

After Conference Plans (optional):

7/20 Afternoon: Bishop Museum tour. 7/21 Mission Houses Museum, Iolani Palace, Hawaii State Art Museum Tours, Chinatown & Dinner (free), Haunted Honolulu Ghost Tour (Lopaka Kapanui). 7/22 Shangri-La (Doris Duke) Islamic Museum, Academy of Arts Museum. 7/23 Superferry to MAUI, tour in Central
Maui, settle into hotel/camp. 7/24 Upcountry Maui: Haleakala, Makawao, Paia. 7/25 Talk Story Maui (afternoon workshops and evening concert). 7/26 Lahaina Historical Walking Tour, Ulalena Theater Show. Details on Conference website: www.nsntalkstoryconference.com

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