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
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
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10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Ongoing Registration
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Noon
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Lunch
(1st Conference Meal)
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1-5 p.m.
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Master Coaching Session
- Jim May
($100/hour added cost)
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1-5 p.m.
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‘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
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5-pm
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Free Time
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6 pm
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Opening Dinner
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7 pm
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Hawaiian Welcoming
Ceremony - Traditional Polynesian social ritual
adapted by protocol authority Dr. Emil
Wolfgramm to welcome Conference participants.
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8:30 p.m.
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Improvization
Storytelling– ‘learn by doing’
make up a tale- Ruth Halpern
Swap
Themes: Creation Tales, Sweet ‘n Sour Love
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July 17
Friday
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6-8:30 a.m.
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Breakfast
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8:30 a.m.
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Ancient Hawai'i: Gods, History &
Legends –Emil Wolfgramm, Lopaka Kapanui,
‘Tita’ Kathy Collins,. Tom Cummings,
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10 a.m.
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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.)
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Noon
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Lunch
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1 p.m.
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Hula is
Storytelling- hear, see & dance hula (Oh yes
you can!)
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2 p.m.
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Tongan Epic
Tales: Revealing Deep Waters- Emil
Wolfgramm
Content Area
Storytelling – Linda
Martin
Rocky Mountain
Tellers: Kate Lutz & Kathy
Hunter
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3:30 p.m.
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Mo’o
Legends (water lizard women) - Alohalani Brown
(Doctorate)
Technology
Tellings- Eric Wolf (Ohio)
www.storytellingwithchildren.com
String
Stories (Why Knot?)- Anne Glover
(Victoria)
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5pm
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Free Time
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6:30 p.m.
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Dinner
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7:30 p.m.
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Keynote: From Generation to
Generativity- Sherry Norfolk, NSN Board
Chair
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8:30 p.m.
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Nu Wa Tours
Ethnohtec powerpoint talk of tours to China, Singapore,
India
Swaps:
Gigs from Hell, Earth Tales , Historical Tales
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July 18 Saturday
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6-8:30 a.m.
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Breakfast
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8:30 a.m.
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Historic Hawai'i –
Lopaka
Kapanui,
Barbara Kawakami, Alton
Chung,
Daniel Martinez (National Park Service). Guest: Makia Malo- (Kalaupapa,
Molokai)
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10 a.m.
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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
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Noon
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Lunch
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1 p.m.
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Keynote: Stories of
Kindness - Margaret Read MacDonald,
author/teller
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2 p.m.
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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
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3:30 p.m.
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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)
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5:00pm
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Free
Time:
Waikiki History Walking
Tour (Lopaka
Kapanui)
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6:30 p.m.
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Dinner
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7:30 p.m.
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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
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9 pm
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Swaps:
Kindness, Spookies, Historical
Tales
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July 19 Sunday
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6-8:30 a.m.
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Breakfast
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8:30 a.m.
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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.
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10 a.m.
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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)
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Noon
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Lunch
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1 p.m.
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Keynote: The Storyteller’s
Journey- Lani Peterson,
psychologist/storyteller
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2p.m.
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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
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3:30pm
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Free Time
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4:30p.m.
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Public Concert of National
Tellers:
Diane Ferlatte, Jim May, Bobby Norfolk,
Anne Glover, Margaret Read MacDonald,
Eth-Noh-Tec
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6:30 p.m.
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Dinner
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7:30 p.m.
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Dancing to
“Doolin’ Rakes” &
James McCarthy- rockin’ Irish Storyt Band
with
James McCarthy, musical stories &
musical guests.
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9:30-11 p.m.
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Swaps Musical
Tells, Peace Tales, Edgy Late Night Tales
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July 20 Monday
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6-8:30 a.m.
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Breakfast
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8:30-9:30
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Thai Storytelling : Collecting, Presenting
& Cherishing A Heritage
Dr.Wajuppa
Tossa &
Prasong
Saihong run English Storytelling Camps &
folk tale reclamation projects in rural Thailand.
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9:30-10
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Traditional Thai Farewell
- a string is tied to the wrist with a
blessing.
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10-11
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Swap Meet
(bring used story CDs, T shirts, books, dolls, props to trade & sell)
final exchanges & product returns. &
Alohas.
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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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