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Brings
May Flowers
The first day of the
month of May is known as May Day. It is the time of year when warmer
weather begins and flowers and trees start to blossom. It is said to be
a time of love and romance. It is when people celebrate the coming of
summer with lots of different customs that are expressions of joy and
hope after a long winter.
Editor: As per my modus
operand, I did not take notes during the meeting nor during the stories.
All that I do remember is a delicious meal by the Bobmeister. Riverwind
was so grateful for Bob's work keeping us happy at the workshop and making
his delicious meals for our meetings that he was made an honorary
Riverwind Storyteller and given a vintage RW sweatshirt.
I also remember Warren
telling some of his poetry. I gave a shortened version of my introduction
to the 1904 World's Fair that I developed for programs I did for the
Kansas Humanities Council in February. Please forgive me if you told and I
did not write about it. My memory box has so many holes lately it looks
more like a sieve.
And, speaking of the meeting:
Riverwind meeting is
Wednesday, May 9th, at
Bob's Rendezvous Room.
Click on the name for directions. Please call Ron, if you are a regular
and will not be coming. Also call, if you are bringing an added guest.
There was once a
tradition in England of 'lifting' where a gang of young men would lift a
pretty girl in a flower bedecked chair on May day. Then the girl would
choose a boy on May 2nd.
StL
Storytelling Festival Under the Arch
May 2-5, 2007
Read about
this year's featured storytellers:
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Andy Offutt Irwin
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Antonio Rocha
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Tim Tingle
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Diane Williams
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Kuniko Yamamoto
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Karen Young
Many of the Riverwinders will be
telling at the Arch this year. For a line-up of the regional tellers, click
HERE
There is a new webpage on the Festival's
Website for teachers:
St. Louis Storytelling Festival Study Guide It includes helpful hints with pre and post
activities to prepare the classroom for hearing a storyteller, the academic
benefits of storytelling, state standards, generic activities, and specific
study guides. Any storyteller/teacher who has a study guide based on a story
told at the Arch can have it published (or linked) to this page.
Contributors to the webpage are Sherry Norfolk, Annette Harrison, and
Marilyn Kinsella.
From Mary Garrett:
Two
Storytelling classes: UMSL June 31 through June 29, 2007,
J. C. Penney Building, 9 Am - 3:30; and Webster University, July 23
through July 27 - 9 AM through 4 PM in Conference Room, Emerson Library,
Webster U.
UMSL course for EVERYONE at very reasonable cost. Runs Thursday, June
21, and Friday June 22 (Lynn Rubright teaching Family Folklore and
Telling One's Own Story); Annette Harrison teaching Monday and
Tuesday, June 25, 26; Perrin Stifel and Sue Hinkel teaching
alternately Wednesday and Thursday, June 27, 28., culminating with
"mini storytelling festival final project" on Friday, June 29.
More detailed info on Festival web site or call –314-516-5948 or e-mail
Bette Ramirez bette_ramirez@umsl.edu
Lynn Rubright’s course at Webster -- annual Storytelling Institute in
Emerson Library Conference Room, Webster U Campus - Monday, July 23
through Friday, July 27. School of Education. Info on Webster
U. web site. course number COMM 5750.01 (or 02) Most
students are MAT students.
From Kathy Schottel:
The show is "Oh, Coward" a
revue of music and lyrics by Noel Coward. I have a wonderful cast of
three. They are ready to kill me for all the lyrics they have
learned. Please come if you can. It opens May 11 and runs 2 weekends
at St. John the Baptist School Complex on delor. If you need further
info let me know.
Girls would make a special point of washing
their faces in the dew of the early morning. They believed this made them
very beautiful for the following year.
In the North of
England, the first of May was a kind of late 'April
Fooling' when all sorts of pranks would take place and 'May Gosling'
was the shout if you managed to trick someone. The response would be:
'May Goslings past and
gone. You're the fool for making me one!'
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Accolades
Thanks to everyone who brought something for
the Riverwind basket to be auctioned at the StL Storytelling Festival.
Thanks to the Riverwinders who came to
the trivia night and bid outrageously in the silent auction. Special thanks
to Lucy Grondahl for those wonderfully fun trivia questions,
Mary Garrett and Lynn Beetner for helping to judge and Sharon
Thompson for all her work with the silent auction.
There's not a budding boy, or girl, this
day,
But is got up, and gone to bring in May.
NSN Conference
in St. Louis
"Storytelling:
Reflecting Our Past,
Creating Your Future”
St. Louis, MO July 12- 15, 2007
Mary Lu Bretsch is a
co-chairman for this event.
Riverwind is certainly represented with
Phyllis Hostmeyer telling at the Regional Concert and
Lucy Grondahl presenting a workshop
Imagination Stretching: Dragons and Taverns and Bears (Oh My!)
Many other Riverwinders are volunteering in a variety of ways.
We need to support this once in a
lifetime opportunity by volunteering in some way and, of course,
monetarily. See Mary Lu about how you can be a part of this conference.
The tallest maypole is
said to have been erected in London on the Strand in 1661; it stood over
143 feet high. It was felled in 1717, when it was used by Isaac Newton to
support Huygen's new reflecting telescope
2007 Northlands Conference:
Phyllis Hostmeyer, Stephanie Rhein, Mary Garrett, and
Marilyn Kinsella ponied up together for the 25th anniversary of
the Northlands Conference. Phyllis told her "No Diapers on the
Harley" story. The audience giggle and guffawed...I heard so many good
compliments about it. She done us proud! Mary Garrett presented her
workshop on stealth storytelling for middle school. Word had it that
everyone had a good time and learned a lot. Good job, Riverwinders!
By all accounts this was one of the best conferences on
record. Everything from the concerts to the workshops were top-notch. They
had so many walk-ins on Saturday that the restaurant ran out of certain
foods...now there is a problem to have at a conference!
At the general meeting we found out that next year the
conference will be held at the Green Lake Resort and Retreat Center. It will
be much more affordable -albeit a tad bit further up the road.
To learn more about Northlands and to become a
member go to
Membership.
In some parts of Britain,
May 1st is called Garland Day.
The first of May is Garland Day
So please remember the garland.
We don't come here but once a year,
So please remember the garland.
For the latest I'll. Tell E-newsletter,
just click
HERE. If you'd like to be on the list to receive this free
newsletter, let me know. There is news about storytelling from all over
Illinois - individuals, conferences, workshops, concerts, festivals and
guilds.
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