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March 2006 Activity - Tales of the Moon - World Storytelling Day
March has been a very busy month. We revised our normal monthly meeting date to the 20 of March to coincide with World Storytelling Day.
On March 19, a Guild performance took place at Charlotte Villa. Guild Vice-President Dave Lewis was the emcee and the storytellers were Michael Rutledge and Barbara Sisson.
The event was held in honour of Miss Ruth Stedman, the Guild’s honorary patron. Miss Stedman told many stories during her long career as a children’s librarian. The audience of about 25 residents, friends and staff were delighted to listen to Miss Stedman tell the story of how a boy and his three dogs triumphed over his witch of a stepmother.
On March 20, the Guild's March meeting was held at the Brantford Public Library on the same date as the World Storytelling Day was being held around the world. We shared the worldwide theme of Moon stories.
Talla Henry told an ancient Chinese tale. The Tale indicates how the Chinese believed that the universe was divided into three worlds: the heaven, the earth and hell. The enchanting story she told was, "How Chang-Er Came to Live on the Moon".
Vyrt Sisson told the Native story about the "Sucker" fish and how it got it's month.
Barbara Sisson recounted a Polish story about the man in the moon, "The Devil and Mr. Twardowski" and story of shrewness, "The Reindeer Herder's Daughter and the Moon Man".
Maureen Henry spun a tale relating to the Chinese Moon Festival, "The Story of Wu-Kang". Wu Kang,was a man who sought immortality. He finally found someone who could teach him about immortality studies and methods, but Wu Kang got restless and seemingly could not be satisfied.
Michael Rutledge told an Inuit Folktale called "Sister and Brother" and a story an hilarious story of unknown origin call the "The Kingdom of Glunc".
Hugh Sutherland related a biblical story relating to the moon and a rousing story called, "The Three Sillies"
Peggy Brown a first time visitor to our Guild meeting told and interesting and descriptive story relating to the moon on the Hamilton bay.
We had refreshments including Chinese Moon Cakes, which combined with great moon stories made for an entertaining and lively evening.
On March 23rd, Barbara Sisson performed for two groups of pupils at W. Ross Macdonald School. The stories told were "The Great Big Turnip", "The Three Billy Goats Gruff", "Lazy Jack" and The Three Sillies.
The children at W. Ross Macdonald were enthusiastic listeners. They slapped their legs to imitate the sound of the billy goats crossing the bridge, voiced the choruses of Lazy Jack, mimed the attempt to pull the great big turnip out of the ground and laughed at the many funny parts of the stories.
Wrap-up
We have seen during this month's performances how stories, provide opportunities for listeners to perform actions or to repeated lines along with the storyteller.
Children have fun voicing the big bad wolf’s threat of ‘I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down.
Adults and children often participate when the storyteller invites the audience to mimic story actions or voice story choruses (Glunc).
Adults, are generally less inhibited in a group participation event as was displayed when we had some people, who attended as listeners, readily joined in the telling with their own stories.
Honorary
Patron:
(The Late)
Miss Ruth K. Stedman
Board of
Directors:
President:
Maureen Henry
Vice President:
David Lewis
Treasurer:
Michael Rutledge
Secretary:
Vyrt Sisson
Festival Co-ordinator:
Barbara Sisson
Sponsored by:
Last Updated: 14 January 2007 - David Lewis
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