StoryTelling/StoryActing Camp

February 15 – 19, 2010
1:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Gallery at Proctors
Ages:  9 - 13

How many ways can YOU tell a story? Create one from a prop? Act out a
story without any words? Tell a story back in your own style to a
partner who has told one to you? Maybe cast the characters of your
story and direct it as a play!
 
Bring a memory from your life or a favorite folktale or fable. We'll
use our imaginations to act out tales and have fun!
 
Make it a day with What a Character! from 9am - 12:30pm.
Tuition: $130 for the week / with VIE pass $125 
It is getting close to camp time! If you still would like to sign up, I can take orders over the phone. Feel free to call!
Jessica Gelarden: 518-382-3884 x 150.
Registration form and payment info click here.

Faculty: 
Marni Gillard
 "Through stories we see ourselves as if in a mirror," says Marni Gillard, who discovered storytelling while teaching middle school English in Niskayuna, New York.  Marni performs for all ages at schools and universities, libraries, museums, prison facilities, houses of worship, family gatherings, festivals, even at airport openings.  Marni's tales will inspire her listeners to find stories in themselves. She reminds us all that we have a storyteller alive within.  A frequent conference presenter, Marni is the author of Storyteller, Storyteacher: The Power of Storytelling for Teaching and Living (Stenhouse, 1996), winner of a 1998 Ann Izard Storyteller's Choice Award for storytelling resources.  Her newest book, in progress, is Storytell Your Life.

Marni has written many articles beginning in the mid 1980s, and she co-edited Give a Listen: Stories of Storytelling in School published by the National Council of Teachers of English, a collection of essays by teachers using storytelling in their work.  Without a Splash: Diving into Childhood Memories, is Marni's coming of age double CD of five interlocking stories about a girl's life from age "4 and 3/4" to age 13 in a small town in upstate New York in the early 1960's. Teachers find it full of great models for student writers and storytellers.  At The Story Studio in Schenectady, Marni offers individual and group coaching for beginning and experienced tellers as well as workshops in spontaneous storytelling. She also travels for coaching and works with tellers by phone. 

Mary Murphy
Mary is a writer and teller of stories. She has performed at the National Storytelling Festival, the Hawaii Storytelling Festival, the Clever Gretchen Folklore Conference, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Companions on the Sacred Journey, the Rockland County Storytelling Fesitval, the Dance Flurry in Saratoga Springs, the Riverway Storytelling Festival, the Clearwater Festival, and the Three Apples Storytelling Festival.
 
Her stories have been published in Give a Listen: Stories of Storytelling in School, edited by Ann M. Trousdale, Sue A. Woestehoff, and Marni Schwartz (NCTE, 1994), The Solstice Evergreen: The History, Folklore, and Origins of the Christmas Tree, 2nd ed., edited by Sheryl Ann Karas (Aslan, 1998), Women Celebrate: The Gift in Every Moment, compiled and edited by Elizabeth Welles (Peace Communications, 2004), The Artful Mind, and Sacred Journey. She has a CD entitled murphy stew.
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