Category: Other Subjects
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Notable Blogs 10/29/10
This week’s Notable blogs focus on cultural heritage. We begin in British Columbia where the life’s work of a much-loved elder will be remembered through the creation of a nature preserve. Dr. Mary Thomas had a vision; collaboration amongst people who would value and preserve the gifts of nature. Mary Thomas, a respected Neskonlith Elder,…
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Mid Way
Today is Jennie’s last day of teaching. Tonight we board a train for the relatively brief trip to Bangalore, where she will work for two days with a well established Playback Theatre company. Next week, I will join Dr. Eric Miller, my host for this trip, for a story swap, and other activities, at the…
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After My Talk
Its 4 a.m. I have been awake for a while, thinking. Both Jennie and I have acquired colds. Our throats are very sore. Sleep is evasive. Last evening I gave my long-awaited talk at the National Folklife Support Center. Dr. Eric Miller,the Director of the World Storytelling Institute, who has sponsored my activities here in…
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Notable Blogs: 10/4/2010
This week’s Notable Blogs focuses on Indigenous people in the arts.We begin with a contest that requested songs to and about the salmon. Salmon, that delicious trickster who travels the world, always to come home again to mate, spawn, and die, and be reborn: After over 4 days of listening to the 38 entries, scrutinizing…
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