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I've been so busy. My apologies for not keeping up with your blogs. I plan to do a little catch-up over the weekend. The good news is that I have some public performance gigs scheduled for the next months. A few days ago, I received an email from two different library colleagues that Third Place Books needed a storyteller for some Friday preschool storytimes. I emailed the contact person on
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1) Get your 2008 ALA literary award announcements (Newbery, Caldecott, Prinz, King, Batchelder, and more) right here. I'm way behind on my books, but hey, I do read what the bloggers tell me to read. 2) I had fun at my two birthday party gigs yesterday. Unfortunately, Bede was too sick to take Lucia to her classmate's birthday party yesterday (on our 7th wedding anniversary), and she was a bit
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I just completed my Worlds of Storytelling gig today. Here are a few photos. The actual storytelling photos came out a bit blurry, but we've got lots of photos of children dancing to "There Ain't No Bugs On Me" and "Jenny Jenkins." Kibibi Monie, the storyteller before me, had a microphone attached to her shirt. While people have warned me against the potential feedback issues with those kinds
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I performed at my friend's son's one-year birthday party yesterday. This is the party where I told my friend beforehand that I would tell stories and sing songs in exchange for two pies. "Even though I've done plenty of young-toddler programs, I've never performed at a birthday party for a one-year-old," I told her. "So, you get a program for practically free, and I get to use your son as a
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I'm going to be telling stories at the Seattle Center's Center Stage on Wednesday, December 19, at 12:15 pm, as part of the Worlds of Storytelling festival. (The website linked under my blurb is my old one, which I hope they correct soon.) I'll be sharing the stage that day with Kibibi Monie of Nu Black Arts West and Marco Cortes, who will be telling Latin American stories in Spanish and English.
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A friend of mine just scheduled me for a storytelling gig at her one year old's birthday party. My price? Two pies. I told you I was open to barter and trade. Another friend of mine asked if I'd be willing to trade her photography services (I need some good professional shots without distracting backgrounds) for guitar lessons for her husband, but I didn't think that was a fair trade-- I've only
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You can find my write-up of yesterday's three-gig day at my Seattle Storyteller website. In that post, you will find out why I have a picture of nocturnal chickens.
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My Kidfest gig went well, considering that the day was so lovely and sunshiney that many people wisely chose to spend their Sunday outdoors. Some friends from church showed up for the first part of my gig, for which I was grateful. I've decided that I really do need to put on a free program in the future so that more of my friends can come. A house party maybe? We'll see. I had a good time at
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Remember: The storytelling component for Kidfest 2007 at the Seattle Children's Museum is on Sunday, October 14. I'm telling stories at 12 noon. They have me listed as telling stories for children "birth to three," but I'll also have stories that are appropriate for four and five year olds. Here is the complete lineup of storytellers: 10:30 am Eva Abram – African Folktales 12:00 pm
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I just found out that the Kidfest event where I'll present two storytimes is not going to be free after all. It's $7.50, which is the general fee for the Children's Museum. The Children's Museum is a non-profit organization, and I do know that they very much wanted the event to be free. The link for Kidfest '07 went up very recently, and the event is less than two weeks away. I'm lucky-- I only have to plan for my own hour for this event, whereas other people have to organize the entire three days.
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This is a cross-posting from my Seattle storyteller gig website:
On Sunday, October 14 at 12 noon, I will present two storytimes geared for preschoolers and toddlers at Kidfest, the three day arts festival of the Seattle Children's Museum. As I understand it, Friday, October 12 focuses on the visual arts, Saturday, October 13 focuses on music, and Sunday, October 14 is storytelling day. The event is free to the general public. Currently, the Children's Museum website is going through an overhaul and they don't have the Kidfest information posted yet.
My plan is to present two different storytimes with a short break in-between so that caregivers and children could stay for one show or both, depending upon everyone's moods. Since my storytimes are right around the lunch hour, I recommend late morning snacks for everyone involved.
Here is the address for the Children's Museum:
305 Harrison St
Seattle, WA 98109
Telephone: (206) 441-1768
The Children's Museum is located in the Seattle Center, underneath the main food court and a short walk from the Seattle Children's Theatre and the Pacific Science Center. If you take the bus to Seattle Center, keep in mind that you're dealing with a Sunday schedule. If you come by car, plan to pay to park in the garage but congratulate yourself if you find free street parking.
I'm looking forward to finding out who else will be performing that day and meeting my audience. This is my first Seattle storytelling festival, and I'm delighted that it will be easily accessible to everyone-- or at least, those of you who will be in the Seattle area in mid-October. The rest of you may have to wait until I can make a storytelling video for you.
That is a bit scary. I used to have similar dreams. I'd wake up in a sweat panicked I forgot to take a final for a college class.
Good luck with your barre chords!
HWM: These dreams seem to be pretty common. Is there a cure? I suppose they're not as disturbing as the ones where my teeth turn soft and start falling out. Ewwww.
Very cool F chord - had I had that at 16, I might have kept playing.
I generally do not take the LSB to birthday parties - only once in a great while for a very special child. If I don't mention it, any talk of invitations at school falls out of her head pretty fast. I have decided she will get family parties until Kindergarten and, well, this policy makes that a lot easier. They just keep going once you start..year after year after year....so anyway Lucia is lucky you care(:
Alkelda: I've been meaning to say, I greatly admire you for learning an instrument as an adult. I've played guitar since I was 11, but I reached that "high school plateau" where I have not made any improvement whatsoever over my 16-year-old self. In fact my 16-year-old self was much better than my 36-year-old self because she practiced.
I am also hampered by that scourge or wannabee guitarists everywhere: tiny fingers. Barre chords are pretty much a no-go area, and F is really the only one I could ever hit. If I ever ran across a song with B flats in it, I'd just get out the capo and transpose.
Goddess: Normally, I'd transpose, too, but those darn-tootin' Beatles are tricky, and some of my favorite songs have B and B flat chords that cannot be transposed except into trickier keys. If you want to take up guitar again, by the way, I will be supportive of you.:) Thanks for the note of encouragement, by the way. I do appreciate it.
LSM: I think you have a sensible policy. Thus far, we haven't gone to a great many birthday parties, and those parties are usually relatively low key. I've placed the kaibosh on pizza-video-amusement ride parties because of the overstimulation-- we are a family of three introverts, after all.
Oh, I am reminded of the one pizza-game parlour party I went to in 5th grade, I think. It was at a place called "Shakey's," and on the way out, there was a light-up fortunetelling slot machine. We each got a turn, and my "fortune" was that I was "passionate." I asked a grownup what "passionate" meant, and she said, "Um, uh, it means intelligent."
Crikey! She could have said, "It means you really love what you do." However, I suspect she was thrown off by the 11 year old birthday girl getting the "Sexy" fortune. Egad.