Indy Theatre Habit

Last Saturday night, my friend David picked me up and we drove to downtown Indianapolis to the Indiana History Center to hear “Disquieting, Disturbing, & Dreadful Tales” told outside on the canal.  We shivered more from the cold than anything else – neither of us was fully prepared for the sudden dip in temperature that night [...]

Storytelling Arts of Indiana’s 1st annual (I hope!) Liars Contest at the Indiana State Fair was a huge success!  Six adults and three youths from various places around Indiana each shared some sort of tall tale to an audience of between 80-100 people from the stage of the Opera House building in the Fair’s Pioneer [...]

On Saturday night, April 4, 2009, I drove downtown to the Indiana State Museum to hear visiting storyteller Megan Wells share the epic story of “Helen’s Troy.”  This event was part of the Barnes & Thornburg Storytellers Theater series.  It was presented by Creative Street Media Group and sponsored by Lewis & Kappes through Storytelling [...]

This is the fourth of four posts in a series about the third annual “Going Deep: Long Traditional Stories Retreat” held in Bethlehem, Indiana, on March 19-22, 2009.

This is the third of four posts in a series about the third annual “Going Deep: Long Traditional Stories Retreat” held in Bethlehem, Indiana, on March 19-22, 2009.

  This is the second of four posts in a series about the third annual “Going Deep: Long Traditional Stories Retreat” held in Bethlehem, Indiana, on March 19-22, 2009.

This is the first in a series of four posts. From late Thursday afternoon, March 19, 2009, to early Sunday afternoon, March 22, 2009, I attended the third annual “Going Deep: Long Traditional Stories Retreat” in Bethlehem, Indiana.  I got to hear: ** “The Story of the Grail” as told by Liz Warren ** “The Paths of [...]

  On Saturday, January 10, 2009, I drove downtown to the Indiana History Center to hear storyteller Motoko share “Stories of Now and Zen.”  The program was presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana as part of the Barnes & Thornburg Storytellers Theater presenting the Creative Street Media Group Storytelling Series.  This particular event was sponsored [...]

Last Friday night I drove downtown to the Indiana History Center to hear the Indiana Historical Society and Storytelling Arts of Indiana present “Love, Work, Mistakes and Miracles: A Night of Song and Story” featuring Bill Harley and Carrie Newcomer.  Local storyteller Bob Sander was the MC.  Joyce Ellinger provided sign language interpretation. It was a [...]

On Thursday night I drove to the Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center to hear three professional storytellers present “More Alike Than Not: Stories of Three Americans – Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim.” This program was the result of a wonderful collaboration.  It was presented by the Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, the Jewish Community Center, the Muslim [...]