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Conversations With Storytellers
By Simon Brooks
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January 29, 2024Shonaleigh Shonaleigh comes from an old Jewish tradition. Hailing from Britain, she is a Drut'syla (pronounced Dreet-zella). who was taught around 3,000 stories by her Bubbe, Eldith Marks. These stories are told traditionally in cycles. Some stories are short, but some are incredibly long. They make the Odyssey look like a Saturday morning cartoon. Shonaleigh was a delight to chat with, and I hope you enjoy this episode of "Conversations with Storytellers."You can find more of her work including videos and audio recordings at https://shonaleigh.uk/If you want to join Twilight Tales with Shonaleigh, you can join the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/twilighttales/And my work is, as always, at Diamondscree.comPeace, Simon...more October 20, 2023Diane Ferlatte, PartTwo There is no one like Diane Ferlatte. She is a highly respected storyteller and elder in the storytelling community, and a cancer survivor. This is Part 2 so if you missed Part 1, go back and have a listen, there's so much more to hear - including about her theme songs! Yes, she has theme songs! This was truly a wonderful time I was lucky enough to have. We had a lot of fun, and plenty of laughs.If you are a Patron of mine at https://www.patreon.com/simonbrooks, you will have heard Diane telling an Aesop tale there. If you become a Patron, you will help keep my podcasts going - this one and another at https://smilinsimon.podbean.com/I hope you enjoy the conversations as much as I did.http://www.dianeferlatte.com/And me: https://www.DiamondScree.com...more October 06, 2023Diane Ferlatte Part One There is no one like Diane Ferlatte. She is a highly respected storyteller and elder in the storytelling community and a cancer survivor. This is, as you may have noticed from the title, part 1 of a two part conversation. We had a lot of fun, and plenty of laughs and there's a lot to take in. Settle somewhere comfortable.I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.http://www.dianeferlatte.com/and you can help support this podcast and my other podcast at https://SmilinSimon/Podbean.com/ by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrooksMany thanks for listening, I know there are plenty of other places to be.Peace,Simon...more June 02, 2023Antonio Rocha and the Slave Ship Malaga Antonio Rocha has created a masterful piece of storytelling about a slave ship called Malaga. There is a connection between the ship and Antonio and this plays into his telling. I cannot wait to share this conversation with you.
Antonio began life as a mime, then became a storyteller. In 2020 he discovered a story about a slave ship which was built in Maine, where he now lives, and operated between the States and Brazil, where he grew up. His heritage is part African. This episode is about his research and the story and what it meant to him to be able to tell this story.
...more May 19, 2023Fran Stallings I have been seeing and bumping into Fran Stallings for a long while and have had one or two conversations with her and we have talked about doing this for a long time. On this episode, unfortunately there is a popping sound from, I think, Fran's microphone. It came over on the recording and I couldn’t always get rid of it. Apologies for staticky tech! Also, we talked about suffragettes and I mis-spoke causing Fran to misspeak. I mis-pronounced Emily, or Emmeline Pankhurst’s name, it is not Parkhurst! Emily Pankhurst never met Susan B Anthony, the former coming to the United States a few years after Susan B Anthony’s death.Fran Stallings started as a biologist hoping to dance. She is a well respected storyteller and tells stories she heard and collected in Japan from Hiroko Fujita, other folk tales, stories to help save the environment, and the occasional personal story. Fran started telling stories as a teacher, then to her kids, and earned money as a professional towards the beginning of the renaissance in the early 1980’s. She's still at it. She is a wonderfully warm person and great teller of traditional tales. Here, she shares her journey and connection to Japanese stories and Hiroko Fujita, and her environmental work. Fran shares her work process and why folk and fairy tales are important to her.I hope you enjoy this conversation with Fran Stallings....more December 23, 2022Joseph Bruchac Joseph Bruchac is one of the preeminent Native storytellers in the USA. He is part Slovak and part Abenaki. He is a keeper of Native traditional tales, marched with Martin Luther King Jr., told poetry with Robert Bly and is one of my favourite storytellers and writers. Did you know he drove (and maybe still drives) a Harley, and taught in Ghana? Now you do! Find out other fascinating things about Joseph in this wonderful interview. Not to be missed!
...more September 02, 2022Regi Carpenter Raised in Clayton, New York, Regi Carpenter came from the school of scrappy, studied music, but became a storyteller! Although steeped in folk and fairy tales, myths and legends, she also tells deep personal narrative. Digging deep in the well of truth she brings her love of language to all the tales she tells, and shares with us her two very different processes on learning stories, whether it’s a folk tale, or personal story. Regi also shares a folk tale.
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Regi’s website: https://regicarpenter.com/
...more August 05, 2022Doug Elliot I had been hearing about Doug for a while, and then heard his harmonica at a festival, then briefly met with him at said festival. I bought one of his CDs and loved what he did, and decided we should hear his voice here! Doug is a humble man with a deep knowledge of the woods, marshes, swamps, rainforests and a deep desire to show the human connection with the world about us through storytelling. There’s a fair bit about vultures, or peace eagles, and I get to show off how ignorant I am about nature!
One of Doug's motos: "Life is like playing a harmonica - you find a good note and wail on it!"
Doug's website: https://dougelliott.com/
Doug's books and CDs: https://dougelliott.com/shop/
...more June 03, 2022Michael D McCarty I first heard Michael D McCarty, laugh. It was in a far off room so I followed the sound and listened to him impart joy and happiness upon all around him. There was, and is, some sort of magical aura he gives off, and it is quite wonderful.Originally from Chicago, and now of Los Angeles, Michael first wanted to be a physicist, or an astronaut, and became a Black Panther, an acupuncturist, and storyteller. There are very few people even remotely like Michael, and we only touched on a small part of what he’s done.We talked comics, reading, giving away books, gangs, racism, and how importnat mothers are, and could have talked about a lot of other things too.Michael's website is: http://havemouthwillrunit.com/...more May 07, 2022Eldrena Douma - part 2 Eldrena Douma (pronounced Dow-MAH) is of the Tewa, Hopi and Laguna people of the South West. This, part two of another two part interview, covers Why Native American stories should not be told by those not within their community. Over the course of the two episodes we talk about story and what story means to the Pueblo people.Eldrena also talks about her (great?) grandmother who pretty much saved the art of Pueblo pottery, and how Eldrena now creates her own animal stories to share her culture and world. There's a lot of history in these conversations.I hope you enjoy them.Eldrena's website: https://www.eldrenadouma.com/...more
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