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Articles About storytelling

  • True stories told live at Yellow Springs Arts Council

    By Audrey HackettMay 19, 2016

    Story Slam, a live storytelling event that was a smash hit when it debuted in February, returns to the Yellow Springs Arts Council this Saturday, May 14, from 7–9 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Here, Dayton-area writer Jude Walsh Whelley warms up for her winning story. It was the first story she had ever told to an audience. (Submitted photo)

    Jude Walsh Whelley had never told a story to an audience before. But that didn’t stop her from entering, and then winning, February’s Story Slam.

  • Play tells inmates’ stories

    By Diane ChiddisterMarch 31, 2016

    This week Craig Powell, left, executive director of the Dayton nonprofit PowerNet, met with local playwright and director Tony Dallas to discuss Dallas’ current project, a play based on stories from female inmates in the Dayton Correctional Institution. PowerNet, which aims to help former prisoners transition back into communities, is sponsoring the project, which is funded by the Ohio Arts Council. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    “Theater needs to be about the large things,” Tony Dallas said in a recent interview. “I want that kind of theater.”

  • Wrights raise the haunts of Kyoto

    By Lauren HeatonOctober 23, 2014

    Harold and Jonatha Wright wrote and Sherraid Scott illustrated ‘Flesh Crawling Tales from Old Japan,’ published this month in time for Halloween. The authors will host a signing on Sunday, Oct. 19, 3–5 p.m. at the Arts Council Gallery on Corry Street, where Scott will also do a printmaking demonstration. (Photo by Lauren Heaton)

    Once a year, near the time of the autumn equinox, Harold and Jonatha Wright put on black clothes, and tell gruesome stories that drew people in, curdle their blood, and chill them to the bone.

  • Evie Ladin & Keith Terry to perform at Glen Helen Building

    By YS News StaffJune 18, 2014

    Antioch College hosts eclectic musicians/dancers Keith Terry and Evie Ladin Wednesday for an evening of song, dance, rhythm and storytelling.

    Antioch College will host an evening of body music, acoustic American songs and storytelling on Wednesday, June 18, at 7 p.m. at the Glen Helen Building.

  • Les Trois Ours come for your kids

    By Matt MindeMarch 18, 2013

    Les Trois Ours come for your kids in a program featuring popular stories, song and poetry for children in French, Spanish and Japanese, presented by Antioch College students.

    Antioch College foreign language students will perform a multilingual program, “Once Upon A Time…,” Wednesday, March 20, at 4:30 p.m. at the Glen Helen building.

  • Liar’s contest winners serve up a bunch of ‘bull’

    By Lauren ShowsJuly 7, 2010

    At the second annual Big Bull Shake Liar’s Contest on July 4, contestants competed to see who could spin the biggest yarn.

  • WYSO brings StoryCorps

    By Diane ChiddisterApril 22, 2010

    When Neenah Ellis was growing up in northern Indiana, she regularly listened to Studs Terkel interview guests on Chicago radio. The legendary oral historian became an inspiration and role model, according to Ellis, who is now general manager of WYSO Public Radio.

  • Telling stories to save the land

    By Diane ChiddisterApril 8, 2010

    Eric Wolf remembers the moment he made an emotional commitment to supporting farmland preservation. He had returned to Shelter Island outside New York City, the place where as a child he went to hunt scallops and wonder at the expanse of cornfields.

  • Traveling tales in the ‘Box’

    By Susan GartnerJanuary 22, 2009

    Children aren’t the only ones who appreciate a well-told story. Bedtime stories, love stories, scary stories told around a campfire, folk and fish and fairy tales have, since human life began, entertained and educated young and old alike.

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