Sentences with phrase «oral storytelling»

His family has a rich history of oral storytelling, but no one had ever written down their stories.

The second uses oral storytelling techniques as a starting point to create written stories that build on the the hero's journey plot structure.

Fan fiction on the internet is the manifestation of a hybrid, more fluid and nuanced understanding of story and storytelling: drawing on oral storytelling traditions, and is both performative and written.

Beginning with oral storytelling, a Waldorf child listens to and summarizes oral language.

We explore humankind's development through the great stories, from fairy tales and fables to Nordic and Greek myths to medieval, Roman, Renaissance, and modern history, which the class teacher brings to life through oral storytelling.

The Scottish Storytelling Centre is the ideal place to discover live oral storytelling, develop your own storytelling skills, or find out more about storytelling in your area.

«So I started to contact them via e-mail, and they were crazy about the idea [of] a forum for oral storytelling,» he says.

is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable handouts for use with students of all ages.

Most of my students were not familiar with podcasts, so as a class we explored a few episodes from NPR's This American Life series — listening to them together and then discussing oral storytelling techniques.

After the interview, Mark reflects on the evolution of storytelling and how, in oral storytelling, the creator could receive immediate and instant audience feedback that might help them to adjust their story's tone, pacing and other elements on the fly.

Recently we are starting to see this oral tradition emerge across diverse disciplines and settings in multiple forms, including digital storytelling, photovoice, literature, poetry, traditional oral storytelling, theatre, and personal narrative, to name a few.

Drawing on their traditions of oral storytelling, it's lushly photographed and costumed, plus dreamily confusing, yet it vividly brings a past to life.

Examples include the sewn and woven images of artist and former professional skateboarder Tony Cox, Philippine artist Brenda Fajardo's works using indigenous materials that recall her country's visual and oral storytelling traditions, and Christina Forrer's tapestries blending elements from Swiss folklore and historical European tapestry with contemporary pop and street culture.

Through the work of six artists, Jumana Emil Abboud, Basma Alsharif, Samah Hijawi, Anas Al - Shaikh, Magdi Mostafa and Joe Namy, this group exhibition considers the role of sound in the recording and rewriting of history through oral storytelling, music and field recordings.

In nine chapters, called innings, of course, the stories flow with the cadence of the spoken word... and some of the bravado that often goes along with oral storytelling.

Two thoughts I hope you can comment on: the Maori culture in the past would preserve the ritual tattooing of their chieftains by preserving their heads after death — the idea of a permanent archive and the furtherance of an oral storytelling tradition that film represents for us in modernity.

It resembles John Sayles's brilliant The Secret of Roan Inish not only in subject, but also in the understanding that film has the potential to be the most cogent extrapolation of the oral storytelling tradition.

With the film dedicated to both of her grandmothers, Martel says that she comes from a tradition of oral storytelling and finds this a source of inspiration; for structure, more so than for plot.

What I want to explore is traditional, oral storytelling, which has been a part of human life since we first left Africa 200,000 or more years ago.

With the invention of the printing press less than 100 years earlier, his work also fell right into a point in history of great transition, as society moved from a culture of oral storytelling to a more visual, literary culture.

Through prior millennia of humanity assembling cultures that created ideas worth sharing, drawings and oral storytelling were two dominant forms of expression.

In terms of early literacy practices, this orally formulating characters (formulating characters through this oral storytelling that they were actually participating in through ventriloquism) is something that we can link to literacy practices, to these early literacy practices of: What is a character?

Four well known tales, chosen to illustrate archetypal story genres from the tradition of oral storytelling and early collections of written fairy tales.

In many ways, Ocean Meets Sky is a tribute to the tradition of oral storytelling, in particular to the stories told by the Fans» Taiwanese grandfather, who lived on the other side of the world and didn't frequently visit (both Eric and Terry were born in the U.S. but moved to Canada as children).

In many ways, it reminds me of the ancient communities and their oral storytelling, each community modifying their tales to tell the lessons most pertinent to them.

And we liked the interplay of the oral storytelling experience coupled with each employee having their own physical takeaway.»

By fusing this language with oral storytelling, Martin offers other identities and narratives for women of color.

Christy Chan is an interdisciplinary artist in Oakland working primarily in video, installation, performance and oral storytelling.

Oral storytelling is an important part of many First Nations and Aboriginal cultures and has been for thousands of years.