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Storytelling Notes

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Notes on the storytelling life of Priscilla Howe, with miscellaneous notes on puppetry and the eternal search for the best restaurant pie on earth (fruit, not cream).

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  • Altars, ofrendas

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 11:34 in Mexico, altars, day of the dead, ofrendas

    I've got a few more pictures to put up from the Mexico tour. I'm at the post-tour stage where I'm wondering if it was just a lovely dream. The pictures remind me that I was truly there. I keep finding small themes in my pictures. Here's one. Here's a...

  • Mexico building entrances and facades

    Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 14:37 in Mexico, doors, facades

    Here are a few of the pictures of building entrances and facades from the Mexico tour.This horsehead was up at the roofline on a building near our hotel in Mexico City. Quite a contrast with the noisy electronics stores at street level.Colonial style...

  • Back to Mexico City

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 13:48 in storytelling, puppets, mexico city

    On Tuesday night, we flew from Monterrey back to Mexico City, arriving at the hotel at about 11:15 p.m. The next morning we met Pedro, our cab driver, at 6:15 a.m. I am a morning person, but manoman, that was hard. We arrived near the school early en...

  • Family Literacy Nights in Mexico

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 12:24 in Mexico, Libraries, storytelling, family night, robert munsch

    I often perform at Family Literacy Nights in the US--I've got one coming up this Thursday in Wamego, KS. I had three in Mexico last week, at two branches of the same school in Monterrey. The first show was difficult, in large part because of the sett...

  • Monterrey writing workshops

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 16:28 in monterrey, Mexico, writing, natalie goldberg, young authors workshop, colegio ingles

    Through the years, I've offered a workshop for kids called Storytelling, Storywriting. We start with the difference between written and told stories, discuss structure and backstory, and play with a story or two. Then we write, using a modified versi...

  • Mexico Tour, scrambling to catch up

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 11:23 in monterrey, Mexico, storytelling, liceo de monterrey

    I had good intentions to write more often! Last week I was in Mexico City and Monterrey doing fifteen shows and two tw0-hour workshops, so I have an excuse.On Tuesday, I went to the Comunidad Educativo Tomas Moro for three performances with older kid...

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