Storytelling Events Featuring Allison Cox and the Healing Heart Books

Neighborhood House Child Development sponsors
Storytelling with Fathers and Their Families,
as part of their support for "strong families, strong communities."

Featuring storyteller Allison Cox with
tales from Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

In honor of the 12^th anniversary of
North Sacramento's Phantom Galleries
Storytelling Concert, Friday, February 7^th, 2003, at 7:30 PM ~

Stories From the Heart
A performance from our heart to yours. Allison Cox will present an evening of stories that nourish ourselves, our families and our communities.

The Sacramento Storytellers bring back Allison Cox
Workshop, Saturday, February 8th, 2003 9am - 3:30pm ~

Allison will describe the reasons storytelling is important in nourishing all aspects of our lives and our relationships.

The Women of Wisdom Foundation is an internationally recognized organization created to provide diverse and innovative programs that offer women opportunities for personal growth and transformation. By deepening spiritual awareness, Women of Wisdom serves to empower the lives of others. In prior years, the theme has focused on internal and personal transformation. Our theme for 2003 demonstrates an outward movement toward social action, to apply our personal work on behalf of all women, to empower others as we grow and become stronger within ourselves.

Allison M. Cox
Sing Loudly With a Strong Voice! Storytelling for Healing Violence

For more information on this conference - see the Women of Wisdom web site at: www.womenofwisdom.org

The Vancouver Society of Storytelling is sponsoring
the telling of the Welsh stories from the MABINOGION,

Saturday, and Sunday, March 15^th and 16^th, 2003
at the Klee Wyck Arts Centre
in West Vancouver,
200 East Keith Road.

Storytellers will be coming together for the weekend to share their favorites of these magnificent tales.

The Tacoma Art Museum presents a new exhibit ~
Indivisible: Stories of American Community

An exploration of community life in America by some of this country's most accomplished photographers, radio producers, and folklorists. Here are the stories of twelve communities where people are coming together to make their small piece of the world a better place to live.

To accompany this exhibit, there will be three storytelling events at the Tacoma Art Museum, for children, ages 15 and under with adult companions
on February 22, March 29 and April 26 of 2003.

On April 26, join Allison Cox for an hour of storytelling at the museum: 11am -12pm.
Stories of our Community
Allison will share stories that could even happen today!

For more information on the exhibition, check out this site!
www.indivisible.org

2003 Northwest Folklife Festival
May 23 - 26, 2003
Friday - Monday (Memorial Day weekend)
Founded in 1972, the Northwest Folklife Festival is one of the nation's largest free events and is truly a celebration of ethnic, folk, and traditional arts activities. The Folklife Festival is Seattle's unofficial leap into summer, with four days of jam-packed excitement. Artists from the Pacific Northwest along with special guests from throughout the world create an ethnic extravaganza embracing music and dance performances, visual arts and folklore exhibits, hands-on ethnic children's activities, symposia, dance and music workshops, crafts, food, imported goods, demonstrations of traditional arts, and more! Folklife brings together an estimated 220,000 visitors, 1,800 volunteers and more than 6,000 muscians, dancers, tradition bearers and visual artists.

This will be the third year for the invitational Ghost Story event
which includes stories of not only ghosts, but also hauntings, silkies, goblins, and a pot pourri of paranormal happenings, etc..

Camp SpeakOut, the American Cancer Society Camp
June 18 and 19, 2003 in Auburn WA, at Camp Berachah
This camp is for teens who educate others about the dangers of tobacco and advocate for policy changes in schools, parks, restaurants, etc. I tell stories addressing themes of leadership, teamwork, the importance of vision and goals, power struggles, speaking out, diversity/inclusion, making a lasting impression, and sustainability of efforts.

July, 2003

In Chicago, IL ~

The National Storytelling Network's Conference:
Storytelling At The Crossroads

Will feature:
Stories from the Field, Reaping the Wisdom:
A Healing Story Gathering
~ Pre-Conference concert on the evening of July 8. 2003
~ Workshops and discussion groups during the day on July 9, 2003.

The Healing Story Alliance's 2003 Pre-Conference is an innovative, three-part program designed to enlighten, challenge and empower. Tuesday evening showcases the stories of six tellers, focusing on different aspects of healing through story. On Wednesday, Pre-Conference participants may choose two workshops from the six offered by these tellers, reflecting their specific areas of healing story expertise. Through the afternoon, participants will choose and discuss topics in depth through afternoon learning groups. At the end of the day, the groups will reconvene to share their experiences and insights. This highly successful model is derived from the Popular Education Movement, developed by the late Brazilian educator/activist Paulo Freire.

Workshops will be offered on the following topics: wellness and community, embracing the 'other', healing our stories, mindfulness practices, challenging homophobia, and creating healing story programs.

The tellers/workshop presenters and their topics are:

Allison Cox, Survival Stories: Sharing Vital Tools for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Bob Kanegis and Liz Mangual: The Man Who Entertained the Bears: Encounters with the 'Other' Through Story

Christopher Maier: Healing Fictions: Re-Visioning Stories of Life Conflicts

Elisa Pearmain: Stories and Mindfulness Techniques in Therapeutic Settings

Rico Rodriguez: Dismantling Homophobia and Healing All, One Story at a Time

Joan Stockbridge: Beginnings, Middles and Ends: Designing a Healing Story Program

Extensive descriptions of the workshops and presenter bios will be in the HSA March Newsletter and on our website, www.healingstory.org

July, 2003

Early Head Start Conference
July 24th
Allison Cox shares stories with conference attendees on self-care and coping with the future. Allison will also offer a 3 hour workshop on Lap Rhymes, Lullabies and Story for babies or toddlers and their care-givers.

October, 2003

The Take Back Your Time Celebration
On Friday Oct. 24, 2003 at the University of Washington
is "part of a U.S./Canadian initiative initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, overscheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment..." Take back your time as storyteller, editor and author Allison Cox performs in Suzzallo Library's restored Smith Room. Combining her training and experiences as a therapist and social worker with her love of story, Cox connects across cultures and generations to add balance to busy lives. Come 1:30 p.m. in the Smith Room of the Suzzalo Library.
For info on Take Back Your Time Day, see: www.simpleliving.net/timeday

November, 2003

Vancouver Storytelling Conference
Stepping Into Story - Allison Cox
Drawn to telling stories but not sure how to begin? Wonder how to take the written story off the page and bring it to life? Join Allison Cox in exercises that build kinship with story. Learn to inhabit a tale, look through your character's eyes and walk in their shoes as your story comes to life with possibilities. This evolution of tales also includes developing story sense memories, changing description into dialogue; adding cultural markers, poetry and song; and much more! While this workshop is appropriate for beginning tellers, this process will yield surprising insights for all storytellers to add depth to a tale.