Welcome!
The Northstar Storytelling League is a nonprofit organization which promotes and supports the art of storytelling. We serve Minnesota storytellers and listeners, and sponsor evets in the Twin Cities, including an annual all-day Tellabration! festival at Open Book in Minneapolis. Events are open to the public, and Northstar membership is open to all. To learn more about our members, browse our member directory. You can listen to Northstar tellers as well.
Upcoming Northstar Events
Saturday, June 13, 2009 7.00 - 9.00 p.m.
Northstar presents A Synergy of Asian Storytelling
Featuring the Minnesota Asian Storytellers Alliance
Joyce United Methodist Church
1219 W. 31st. Street, Minneapolis, MN
Northstar’s first offering of the summer for the Minneapolis Mosaic festival is a summer evening of storytellers, writers, poets, and dance performers including Benjamin Aung, Eh Taw Dwe, Dyane Garvey, Mai and Tori Garvey, Parmananda Khatiwoda , Phuoc Tran, Julie Ha Truong, Bryan Thao Worra and Patch Xiong. Hosted by emcee David Zander from the MN Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. This is a free event and intended for all ages, seniors, adults, and children. The suggested donation of $5.00 per adult covers costs related to the art of promoting multicultural storytelling in the Twin Cities. A recent writeup in the Asian American Press on last month’s PJ Stories featured the Minnesota Asian Storytellers Alliance: check it out here. For more information about the many events in the Minneapolis Mosaic festival, go to http://www.minneapolismosaic.org. Questions/Contact David at 612/529-8964.
Other Events featuring Northstar Storytellers:
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 7:30pm - 9:45pm
Cheap Theatre: Simplicity
Black Forest Inn Festsaal Room
9 East 26th Street (just east of 26th and Nicollet), Minneapolis, MN
Featuring John Akre; poet Carol Connolly; writer John Coy and printmaker Richard Stephens presenting The Last Year; the Unknown Poet (who might be a Northstar member, and might be Valerie Plame); music by the Velveteens; and poet and Northstar member Tom Cassidy. Terse hosting by Erica Christ.
Tuesday June 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Two Chairs Telling@ Open Eye Figure Theatre
Hosted by Loren Niemi @ Open Eye Figure Theatre
506 East 24th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Featuring internationally known Israeli storyteller Noa Baum and Northstar storyteller Howard Lieberman. Hosted by the godfather of Minneapolis storytelling (and Northstar member) Loren Niemi.
To read more, click here.
Upcoming Northstar Workshops and Classes:
Monday, June 15, 2009
Northstar Presents Risking Peace: Storytelling to Open Dialogue: A Workshop with Noa Baum
Festsaal Room, Black Forest Inn
9 East 26th Street, Minneapolis, MN
Peace can be a risk - asking us to make compromises, go beyond comfort zones, and venture into the unknown. This workshop offers a storytelling model to help build bridges for peace and dialogue in our community. You can experience how listening to and telling the story of the Other can help us break through stereotypes and rhetoric to compassion and the possibility of change. Noa Baum was born and raised in Jerusalem, trained in theater & education at Tel-Aviv University and NYU. She has lived in the US since 1990. In her work she uses many facets of Storytelling: to entertain, bringing people of all ages together to listen and imagine, as well as building bridges of understanding and offering a path to dialogue and peace. Noa also uses stories with organizations of all sizes to harness the power of diversity in the workplace. Her critically acclaimed one-woman show “A Land Twice Promised” stems from a dialogue with Palestinian woman she met in the US and features stories crafted from their memories and those of their mothers to illuminate the complex and contradictory history and emotions that surround Jerusalem for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Cost is $30 for a Northstar member, and $60 for a nonmember. Moreover, we are able to offer the following group rates: $150 for any three participants from another nonprofit organization or congregation, a savings of $10 per nonmember.; or $120 if at least one participant from this organization / congregation is a Northstar member, a savings of $15 per nonmember. Spaces are limited, so reserve your place now! Send a check and your contact information - mailing address, phone number and email - to Northstar Storytelling League, P.O. Box 581154 * Minneapolis, MN 55458-1154 * Questions? Leave a voicemail at: 612.782.7121. You may download a flyer for this workshop here. Feel free to reproduce copies for your congregation or nonprofit.
Other Workshops and Classes taught by our talented members:
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 23-24, 2009
Teachers Matter!
Featuring Northstar storyteller Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux, plus Louise Griffith, Linda Knebel Pruden and Yvette Erasmus.
Friday, June 26- Sunday June 28, 2009
From You to Universal: Transforming Personal Experience into Powerful Story.
Led by Northstar storyteller and story coach Nancy Donoval.
Ongoing Monthly Storytelling Group
Led by Northstar storyteller and psychologist Elaine Wynne.
To read more about these and other workshops and classes of interest, click here.
Deadlines and Opportunities for Artists:
Monday, June 15, 2009
Deadline for Workshop Proposals, National Storytelling Conference: Many Stories One World
For more information, go to http://www.storynet.org/conference/workshops.html.
For more deadlines and opportunities, click here.