FOLK STORYTELLING TUTORIALS Tim has recently begun to conduct tutorials for people interested in exploring the pleasures and challenges of resurrecting folk storytelling as a living art. This is primarily a practical course-- you will learn to tell a few folktales in a compelling manner. You can come with nothing, or, if you have a tale you're working on, we can help develop it into something that grabs and holds the auience, bringing it to life, and helping it once again work its ancient mind-meld magic. We also pay some attention to the nature of the traditioanl tale, the history of its study as an academic discipline, and the revival of folk storytelling as a performing art. Some of the work is individual, some group. Tim Jennings has taught folk storytelling at all levels for over thirty years: in schools, teacher residencies, undergraduate and graduate schools, primarily in Vermont but all around New England. This tutorial business, though, is new.

Available online, at local stores, and directly from us.

FOLK-TELLER STUFF for performers, teachers and enthusiasts.

• Folktales 4U
  • tales with coaching for student tellers
• "Storytelling to teach reading."
  • Tim's Learning magazine article about tough adolescents in a group home
• Health on tour
  • keeping your voice
• Quotes
  • from related disciplines
• Folktale Openings
  • alternatives to "Once Upon a Time."
• Folktale Closings
  • alternatives to "Happily Ever After."
• Resources
  • on the web
• Links & Stuff
• Folktale Category History Rant