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Thursday, December 5, 2019

Fabulaphobia - The Fear of Hiring a Storyteller

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I have been a storyteller for thirty-two years. This is the only job I've had as a grown-up person. I get to travel the world and share ...
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Thursday, October 17, 2019

What To Do With a Squirrelly Audience? Some Techniques For Young Audiences

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Squirrelly Audience?  (source) E very now and then you get a young audience that has no interest in sitting still. They squirm, giggle, ...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

At Jonesboro!

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I'll be back to posting next week after the National Festival in Jonesboro, TN. ...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Cultural Misappropriation is a Continuous, Evolving Battlefield: Being An Ally

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source There are no easy answers here. That should be obvious. There isn't any easy way to talk about this subject. Over the l...
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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Cultural Misappropriation Through Ignorance: How Do You Know If You Don't Know Enough? Part 4

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This is the classic version of the Ants and the Grasshopper. The grasshopper mocks the ants and plays and has a good time while they work...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

Cultural Misappropriation Is Easy To Do: The Accidental Appropriator Part 3

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Helen Bannerman In  1899, a Scottish woman named Helen Bannerman published a little book for her children. Her husband was a physician...
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Friday, September 6, 2019

The Cost of Cultural Misappropriation: Invisibility - Part 2

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In 1946, Walt Disney released Song of The South . Apparently, Disney paid Joel Chandler Harris' family ten thousand dollars for th...
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