Country Dance and Song Society Storytellers Course at Pinewoods July 24 - 31, 1999 as of 6-9-99: there is a wait list for this program.

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Storytellers Week at Pinewoods July 24 - 31, 1999 Program Director: Donald Davis
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9:00 - 10:00
Meet Jack	Donald Davis
10:15 - 11:30
All Camp Gathering of Song, Dance and Storytelling
2:00 - 3:00
The Copper Family: Singers and Collectors	Bob Copper
Ballads	John Roberts and Sara Grey
Singing Yiddish Style	Michael Alpert
Gospel Singalong	Kathy Bullock, Peter & Mary Alice Amidon
Contra and Square Dancing	Lisa Greenleaf/Popcorn Behavior
Guitar	Keith Murphy
3:15 - 4:15
We All Have Stories	Donald Davis
4:30 - 5:30
English Songs and Stories	Bob Copper, John Roberts and Tony Barrand
Singing Potpourri	Sara Grey
Harmony Singing	Mary Alice Amidon
Shape Note Singing	Peter Amidon
Arrangements for Contra Band	Keith Murphy
8:00 - 9:00
Concert	Staff
9:15 - 11:00
Evening Dance Party	Lisa Greenleaf/Popcorn Behavior and Keith Murphy

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Join a group of people who want to find the stories in themselves. This workshop is designed for storytellers and for singers, teachers, librarians and parents who want to better use stories in their lives and work. There will be a concentration on understanding the stories' place in society and on finding one's own stories.

The program, held concurrently with Folk Music Week at Pinewoods, is designed and led by Donald Davis, one of the premier storytellers in the country. Donald has been on staff at our Family Weeks for many years telling the Jack stories of his youth and his own life stories.

Donald will lead the students for two periods every day.

Morning Class:
Meet Jack and His Friends: The Anglo-Appalachian Folk Tale and its Relationship to World Folklore and Written Literature.
Each class session will center around the telling of particular folktales heard in the Appalachian mountains by Donald during his childhood and youth. Using those stories as a beginning place, we will look at the story traditions of the British Isles, oral connections around the world, the role and function of the traditional tale in preservation and transmission of cultural lifestyles and mores, humor and the tall tale, fool stories and the oral tale as source-point for written literature. There will be plenty of time for questions, interaction and discussion.

This class is open to the Folk Music Week campers as well.

Afternoon Class:
We All Have Stories: Finding the Stories Hiding Inside Our Own Lives and Experiences
If you have memories of people who you love and who are no longer around, if you have lived in or visited places that have meaning for you, you have stories, whether the plot is obvious to you or not. In this class we will learn to use place and person as keys to memory recovery and shaping stories from our own lives, families and communities. This will be an experiential class in which all participants will be trying out these processes. No storytelling experience is required, just a desire to explore our own lives and memories.

Students will then draw on the talent and experience of the staff at Folk Music Week for more stories, singing, dancing and vocal work. Please check the description of Folk Music Week for details on that program and staff.

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Storytellers Course registration is limited to 12 participants to ensure ample opportunity for active participation. Scholarships are available; please check the appropriate box on the Registration Form.

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