Sharing The Fire State of Mind - Albany

Come to Albany New York

 join storytellers from all over the Northeast in getting into a New York State of Mind!

Sharing the Fire

Storytelling Conference

March 16,17,18, 2012

info:

www.lanes.org

Ride Share Info on the Lanes website www.lanes.org

League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling

and

YOU!

I'll be sharing a pre-conference workshop on Friday,
My Web Presence is Dead and Other Fear Factors
Registration opens January 3, 2012 www.lanes.org

performances, workshops, story swaps, story slam, keynote by Kevin Cordi
Public Invited

other blogs I've posted on  Sharing the Fire:
 a look at last years Sharing the Fire in Warwick RI at:
www.carolynstearnsstoryteller.blogspot.com/2011/03/stf-30-years-3-days-12-ways.html

This series for the Lanes Blog:
www.lanesrepct.blogspot.com/2011/08/albany-series-post-1-road-trip.html

www.lanesrepct.blogspot.com/2011/11/albany-series-post-2-side-trips.html

www.lanesrepct.blogspot.com/2011/11/albany-series-post-3-history.html

Once Upon a Time...Sharing the Fire

Once upon a time that was really 2011, storytellers converged at the Lanes Sharing the Fire Conference. They were so excited to share a weekend of learning, swapping, meals, stories,  music, dancing and more....

The committee from Lanes stayed up way past their bedtime working to make everything just right! Hotel Security stayed up really late trying to figure out how storytellers were having so much fun! ( Like howling at a full moon close to midnight and watching "Willey Phinedit" skeedaddle like his inner 10 year old when he saw security coming)

Some moments were captured and and will be savored in another 30 years, some moments are sweet memories a few were side splitting funny, some tearful, many full of Healing!

Some found ancient treasures. This one dating back  to 1915, but it's tales are much older.  I gave the token bid of $1.00 at the Silent Auction ( now one would think people who talk as much as storytellers wouldn't want anything "Silent" !) to see this treasure came home to CT. You see  the magic in this volume is it was printed in Boston by the R.Stearns Publishing Co. ,( just has to be family,  they got off the boat there in 1630.)



Sharing the Fire 2011
It's a doggone shame if you missed it!

Now if you are feeling all sad and dejected because it is over or you didn't come, DON'T!

The good story fairies can save you!
Just  follow these  magical, easy, directions.....

Get out all your calendars........







First circle or highlight or sprinkle fairy dust over April 29, 30 and May 1, 2011 for the CT. Storytelling Festival in
 New London, CT.  http://www.connstorycenter.org/
Word is there will be magic in the venue for anywhere storytellers gather magic is made!

Then sprinkle some of that fairy dust over the dates March 16-17-18, 2012
That is when Sharing the Fire moves to Albany, New York! Doesn't this look like a place you might want your
 glass slippers?
( I highly doubt there will be a Ball at the Capitol, but you wouldn't want to miss any of the late night swaps!)

THE END

STF 30 Years, 3 Days, 12 Ways

Here is a musical mashing of an old tune  to celebrate the 30 years of Sharing the Fire the 3 days of the  Northeast Storytelling Conference and the 12 different ways to enjoy a visit to Warwick RI.

Set to the tune Twelve Days of Christmas ( highlights are for singing it back 12  to 1) my apologies to the original  creator of 12 Days!

On the First day of Sharing the Fire your GPS quit enroute
you got  ( and) directions from the one police station

On  the second day of STF you learned  about Warwick,
TWO  Greene's are National Hero's

On the Third day of STF your mentor said to  thee
There are 3 museums in  the town  for you to see

on the fourth day post STF  you declared in glory
4 libraries

On the fifth day post STF your spouse announced to you I should have gone,
 5 Golf Courses!

On the 6 th day post STF you remembered that you heard
6 tellers in the Fri., night concert

On the seventh day post STF you talked about
7 Talented tellers in  Sat eve olio

On the  eighth day post STF you wished the weather permitted visits to
8 Beautiful Beaches

Nine days after Sharing the Fire still digesting
9 workshops in skills and creating story

Ten days post STF were you one of the lucky
10 participants in Loren's intensive

Eleven day after our conference and we're still emailing
11 Old friends visited

Twelve days after Sharing the Fire we pay honor to 30 years of STF & Warwick's
12 famous citizens

www.visitwarwickri.com/info_facts.php

LANES Crew 2010
http://www.lanes.org/

                                                                        

Sleighing to Sharing the Fire

The  weather seems to think we need to break the record for all time low temps in the Northeast! That just means we need to have more people SHARING THE FIRE!  March 18-20, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Warwick, Rhode Island storytellers from around the Northeast will gather and share in warm stories, warm hearts, healing, learning and  friendships. 

    You may have to hire the sleigh above to get there this year with old man winter dumping storm after storm on us.   Then you would surely have a story to share on the adventure of  coming to
Sharing the Fire Northeast Storytelling Conference.
 If you need to contact the sleigh please do contact my friends Terry and Elaine Joseph at their farm  http://www.cedarknoll.net/  860377-8110.  They do warm weather events too like my daughters wedding a few years ago! Now that was a fairy tale like day!

 Come in out of the cold and take a workshop with us!  How about catching
"The Hero's Journey as Healing Story"
with storyteller Lani Peterson.  Quoting the brochure on the conference: "From C.G. Jung to Joseph Campbell to Disney, the mythic structure of the hero's journey has been explored and utilized from every angle, but its power as a framework for clients, patients, parishioners,and storytellers to explore their own healing stories holds infinite possibilities. Bring your own life experiences and understand it by working with it from the inside out."  For more info on Lani check her website at: http://www.lanipeterson.com/

Friday night the Sharing the Fire Concert 7-9 p.m. is open to the public tickets are just$10.00 and it is open to the public grab a friend and come. You can hear tellers,Lee Ellen Marvin, Doug Lipman & Elisa Pearmain along with  3 winners from Story Slams. ( that could include a wild tale of police and animals and kids and how not to get to a community service event, told by yours truly!)

  Find out more about the conference at http://www.lanes.org/

These tellers are honing skills to wow! you with at the Friday night performance see what they are all about at:
  Lee-Ellen Marvin      http://www.http//26variations.com
      Doug Lipman           http://www.storydynamics.com/
      Elisa Pearmain          http://www.wisdomtales.com/