Articles About storytelling

• True stories told live at Yellow Springs Arts Council

  By Audrey HackettMay 19, 2016

  

  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

  

  “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

  

  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 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

  

  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.