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PORTLAND OR, METRO AREAPortland Storytellers Guild
www.portlandstorytellers.org/ Multnomah County Library's Tapestry of Tales
www.multcolib.org/events/tales/ Washington County Library's Hearing Voices
www.wccls.org/hearing_voices/ Northwest Women's Music Celebration
www.motherlodemusic.com/nwmc.html Tribal Storytelling Festival and Symposium
www.wisdomoftheelders.org/nisa.html Portland Story Theater
www.portlandstorytheater.com The Brody Theater
www.brodytheater.com Artichoke Music
www.artichokemusic.org Portland Folklore Society
www.portlandfolkmusic.org Portland Ukelele Association
home.teleport.com/~pua Jan DeWeese
www.jandeweese/ Aurora Chorus
www.aurorachorus.org/ National Speakers Association, Oregon Chapter
www.nsaoregon.net Young Audiences of Oregon and SW WA
www.ya-or.org/ Regional Arts and Culture Council
www.racc.org/ The Right Brain Initiative
www.therightbraininitiative.org/ ElderAudience
www.elderaudience.com/ |
OREGONBrownsville Welcomes You Home
www.historicbrownsville.com/ Tcha Tee Man Wi Storytelling Festival
www.tchateemanwistorytelling.com/ Draw your chair up to the edge of the precipice, and I'll tell you a good story... Multi-Cultural Storytelling Festival
www.robertrubinstein.net/ PACIFIC NORTHWESTSeattle Storytellers Guild
www.seattlestorytelling.org/ South Sound Story Guild
http://southsoundstory.org/ Forest Storytelling Festival
www.dancingleaves.com/storypeople/ Fanning the Embers Storytellers Retreat
www.fanningtheembers.com/ Northwest Folklife Festival
www.nwfolklife.org/festival If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life. ELSEWHERENational Storytelling Network
www.storynet.org/ International Storytelling Center
www.storytellingcenter.net/ The Moth
www.themoth.org/ There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before... CONTACT ANNEEmail: anne@annerutherford.com |
TEXT RESOURCES, IN PRINT AND ON-LINE |
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STORY STRUCTURE
Story Substance, structure, style Robert McKee
New York: ReganBooks, 1997
On Writing A memoir of the craft Stephen King
New York: Scribner, 2000
3 uses of the Knife On the Nature and Purpose of Drama David Mamet
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998
After the End Teaching and Learning Creative Revision Barry Lane
Portsmouth: Heineman Publishing, 1993 STORYTELLING
The Art of Storytelling
New York: Dover, 1993
The Way of the Storyteller
New York: Viking, 1972
Storytelling — It's Easy!
Pub Details
Improvisation for the Theater
Evanston: Northwest University Press, 1963
The Power of Personal Storyelling
New York: Penguin Putnam Press, 1998 |
OREGON FOLKLORE
Coyote Was Going There Indian Literature of the Oregon Country Jarold Ramsey
University of Washington Press, Seattle: 1972 A Sourcebook on the Indians of the Willamette Valley Harold Mackey
Salem: Mission Mill Museum Associates: 1974 An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature Suzi Jones and Jarold Ramsey, Eds.
University of Oregon Press, Corvallis: 1994 Lewis A. McArthur
Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland: 1982 A Collection of Oregon Folklife Tom Nash, Twilo Scofield,
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992 August House
www.augusthouse.com/ Storyteller.net
www.storyteller.net/ Selected Shorts
www.symphonyspace.org/shorts/ HorrorMasters Ghost Stories
www.horrormasters.com/Themes/ghosts.htm CONTACT ANNEEmail: anne@annerutherford.com |
VIDEOS FOR STORYTELLERS |
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The Usual Suspects Fast-paced heist movie featuring the greatest storyteller ever on film: Verbal Klint (Kevin Spacey.) His sly, hilarious narrative powers the film, with a "knock your socks off" ending twist. (1995)
Out of Africa "I had a farm in Africa..." begins this film about writer and storyteller Isak Dinesen (Meryl Streep.) Her storytelling captivates adventurer Denys Finch-Hatten (Robert Redford) when she seamlessly improvises a tale from his opening line. (1985)
Big Fish A father's (Albert Finney) storybook fantasy world confuses his son (Billy Crudup): what's real, what's fiction? Finally, grasping the truth beneath the tale, he brings meaning to the end of his father's life. (2003)
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Jaws Midway through movie, crusty sea-captain Quinn (Robert Shaw) tells the tale of surviving a shark attack on the WWII ship the U.S. Missouri. Shaw improvised the story (based on fact) for the camera; his storytelling power is breathtaking. (1975)
The Fog The storytelling moment in this decent grade-B horror film is the opening scen, when John Huston holds a campfire audience spellbound with a ghostly sea tale. Note the boyscout reaction. (1978)
Adaptation Hilarious tale of the perils of adapting prose (in this case, Susan Orleans The Orchid Thief into an audience-pleasing story. Cameo by Story author and screenwriting guru Robert McKee. (2002)
Incident at Loch Ness Ace storytelling in this wild ride of a script. I can't say anymore, except: YOU MUST SEE IT and then email me and tell me what you think. (2004) |