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- Have you told stories to children before?
- multple times
- About Me:
- Norah Dooley is a storyteller and children’ s author. Norah’s widely acclaimed picture books, Everybody Cooks Rice, Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Serves Soup and Everybody Brings Noodles, (Carolrhoda Books @ lernerbooks.com) are four titles in a series about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA Norah Dooley has published 5 storytelling CDs. She appears in schools, libraries and teacher’s conferences.
She has performed as a featured storyteller in the Christmas and Spring Revels in Cambridge and Boston MA, the Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Albany NY River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA and at the Clearwater Festival.
"Norah Dooley is an entrancing storyteller" - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe
Norah has been presenting workshops and stories for people of all ages throughout New England and also in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Phoenix . She has published 6 spoken word CDs including: Music of Angels (1), Stories Nobody Told Me “Italian” Folk tales (2002) and Stories from the Neighborhood, World Folk tales (2002), Rabbitales (2006) My Bad,Bad Dog and other Neighbors (2006) and Irish Folk Tales: Live @Passim (2008) www.norahdooley.com
Norah Dooley has performed as a featured storyteller in the Christmas and Spring Revels in Cambridge and Boston, MA, the Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, and the Clearwater Festival She has published 6 spoken word CDs including; Music of Angels, Stories Nobody Told Me "Italian" Folk Tales, Stories from the Neighborhood, World Folk Tales, Rabbitales, My Bad, Bad, Dog and other Neighbors, and Irish Folktales: live @ Passim. She appears often in schools, libraries, and teacher's conferences from Greater Boston to Dallas, to Atlanta and all over New England. Norah Dooley is also a children's author whose widely acclaimed picture books include Everybody Cooks Rice, Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Serves Soup and Everybody Brings Noodles., a series about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA. Norah has been presenting workshops and stories for people of all ages throughout New England and also in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Phoenix for 16 years.
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hokay, gloves off here, shall we dust it up?
;-) Do you know what people will DO for a theater program? It is off the hook.
http://royalstonshakespearecompany.blogspot.com/
seriously tho' -
Are you saying that if I sell Bill Cosby ( first and fave storyteller of my youth ) instead of storytelling I can get community support and interest like I get for theater? Well, I got no beef with that - just -- If that were so HOW would one do that? I think there is more going on here. Some venues and people (MOTH) get it and get peeps to sit up and take notice.
So what do we need to do ?
Norah
That's the most outrageous and totally true statement I have said all day! I wish Sean was here I would love to see what he thinks of that!
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Welcome aboard. Can't wait to see you next week. Choooo Choooo :)
Karen
My introduction was my Japanese painting teacher and my man - R.H. Blyth :
"Wry, ironic, commonsensical, pessimistic, and rigorously nonmetaphysical, Blyth eschews all pieties, including those that tend to elevate one's esteem for Zen itself. Blyth writes that:
Zen is the essence of Christianity, of Buddhism, of culture, of all that is good in the daily life of ordinary people.... " more here - http://home.att.net/~paul.dowling/archive/zen/blyth.htm
... I checked out your site and noticed you do a poetry & haiku workshop. Have you ever read the book Seeds from a Birch? Reading this book was the first experience of 'getting' haiku.