This month I’ve been working with the third graders at Paul Cuffee School in Providence on storytelling. Every student has had to find a story to tell, and is now in the process of learning it, with an eye towards telling it to a wider audience. It’s a process I’ve done a number of times, [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Getting the story off the page – an exercise
Posted in Artists, Children, Schools, solo theater, Story, storytelling, Teachers and teaching, tagged arts in schools, Bill Harley, Bill Harley blog, education, kids, performance, performing, Story, storytelling, storytelling exercises, teaching artists, workshop on November 30, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Thanksgiving poem
Posted in Children, poetry, tagged Bill Harley, Bill Harley blog, childhood, families, kids, poetry, storytelling, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving poem on November 24, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Thanksgiving prayer Now in thanks we bow our heads With grateful words before we’re fed Turkey for all, except Aunt Marian Since she’s become a vegetarian. My brother drools here right beside me My stomach rumbling deep inside me Aunts and uncles , gramps and grans With settled hearts and folded hands My dog is [...]
Taking Over a Space – Flashmob at Providence Place Mall
Posted in Art and community, Children, Life lessons, Uncategorized, tagged Bill Harley, Bill Harley blog, community, families, flashmobs, Hakim Bey, kids, malls, street theater, TAZ on November 22, 2010 | 10 Comments »
On Saturday, Debbie and I organized the second action for the Good Juju Team. Assembling over a hundred people at the Trinity Brew Pub in downtown Providence for a rehearsal, we rehearsed and then proceeded to the Providence Place Mall, where we handed out clown noses, shopped (well, some of us), and led a parade [...]
The storyteller – from Frank Delaney
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bill Harley, Bill Harley blog, oral narrative, performance, Story, storytelling on November 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been spending a good amount of time in the car this fall, and listening to Ireland by Frank Delaney. It’s one of those big sprawling novels that gives you history (guess about what?) and makes you think. The overarching story is about a boy turning towards manhood who hears a traveling storyteller – the [...]
