See Archived Events: 2003

April 2005

Epic Weekend of Stories of Strong Women

Camp Howdy, Belcarra, BC, Canada Friday evening, April 28-Sunday afternoon, May 1. Come one, come all, to listen or tell, walk the forests, sit by the sea. We have a wonderful line up of stories and tellers already. Come meet old friends and make new ones. The community of tellers is one of storytelling's richest rewards.
Allison Cox will tell the Limba tale of Old Woman, the first person to walk the earth!
See Photo Gallery from Epic Weekend

Storytelling and Making Sense of Your Life

A workshop with Ashley Ramsden, Gail Catlin and Joan Stockbridge Friday night concert will feature Allison Cox with stories of Following Your Heart's Desire, Come join us at 7:30 PM at Rudolph Steiner College in Sacramento, CA.

March 2005

Northwest Renal Network Conference

TLC - Teamwork, Leadership and Commitment March 10-11, 2005 at the SeaTac Marriott Featuring Allison Cox - "The Story of our Work"

January 2005

Dream a New World into Being

Storyteller Allison Cox of Vashon Island will share tales of dreams that shape reality.

• Will we move toward peace and dismantle prejudice?
• Will we be stewards of the wilderness and wild creatures?

Stories, poetry, and song offer an ancient path through troubled times. Touch the eternal in daily life and help heal our world. Offered in celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert will be held at The Port Townsend Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on January 15, 2005, at 7:30 PM. Stories will also be part of our service on Sunday morning. Please join us!

Remann Hall Storytelling

Allison Cox has been involved for four years now in ongoing monthly storytelling with the teens at Remann Hall, the Pierce County Juvenile Detention Center. This storytelling project is in conjunction with education efforts of the Communicable Disease Dept. of the Tacoma Pierce County Health Dept.

November 2004

Seattle Storytellers Guild celebrates Tellabration! with an Irish Ceilidh.

Featuring Sharon Creedon, Maggie Bennett, Pat Peterson, Allison Cox, Mary Dessein, Naomi Baltuck and Cheri Trebon Join in on Saturday, November 20, 7pm at the Seattle Waldorf School and hear some of the finest tellers in the region spin tales of love, laughter and magic. There will be ballads sweet and spicy. Harp music will fill the air. As a special treat, the Celtic band, Idle Road will provide heart lifting, toe tapping music for us.

October 2004

Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints

Tacoma, WA, October 30th Family Harvest Feast, Costume Parade and Shivery Stories for Halloween Starts at 6:30 PM

The Tenth Annual
International Forest Storytelling Festival

October 15 - 17, 2004
Featured Storytellers:
Brian Conroy
Allison Cox
Dayton Edmonds
Mary Hamilton
Robin Moore
Yvonne Young

September 2004

AzAADAC
Arizona Association of Addiction Counselors
Annual Conference in Tucson, AZ

featuring Allison Cox on Sept 18, as the Plenary speaker on "Using Story in Treatment of Substance Abuse", followed by her workshop "Stepping into Story."

August 2004

American Cancer Society's
Summer Youth Leadership Camp
At Camp Berachah, in Auburn, WA
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 @ the 9:15 PM Campfire
Allison Cox will share campfire tales with the wonderful youth in the leadership program on the subject of tobacco prevention that are interwoven with tales of ghosts and pirates - no kidding!

IERE
Soil Reclamation Project on Vashon Island

The Institute for Environmental Research and Education (IERE) is instigating a soil reclamation experiment on Vashon Island. Volunteers gathered to build raised beds and plant foxglove to test this local plant's ability to leach heavy metals out of the soil. Allison adapted an old Welsh tale to share at the celebration of opening this phase of the project.

July 2004

NSN Conference in Bellingham

The Healing Voice of Story: HSA Story Concert
Tuesday July 6, 7-9 pm
Come and be warmed by stories of challenge, transformation, reconciliation and laughter told from the hearts by Cynthia Changaris, Gay Ducey and HSA chair Gail Rosen. Allison Cox will be our evening's mc. This evening concert is open to all Preconference attendees as well as HSA members.

Transforming Lives and Communities:
HSA Preconference
Wednesday July 7, 8:30 am - 4:45 pm

On Wednesday morning, HSA chair Gail Rosen will conduct a short information session. Drawing from the strength of our storytelling community, Allison Cox, our Preconference opener, will bring us together in the spirit of mutual support for our day's journey. Participants will then choose between two intensives - Cynthia Changaris's "Power Stories: the Roots of Healing" and Gay Ducey's "Risks and Roses: Stories about Social Change".

In the afternoon, we will gather in Story Circles to exchange tales we have found useful in specific healing applications, and to share practical methods for working with them. At the end of the day, we will reconvene for a closing gathering with Allison Cox, as she shares hopes and possibilities for carrying our hearts' work back into our communities.

Regional Storytelling Concert
Thursday, July 8th from 7:30-9:00PM.
Join us for an evening of humorous, spooky, and inspiring stories from a variety of traditions, and told by some of the best storytellers that the Pacific Region and Western Canada has to offer.
Emcee: Allison Cox

May, 2004

NW Folklife Festival Ghost Stories Featuring Allison Cox, Antoinette Botsford, Melanie Ray, Don Patzman and Anne Louise Sterry.

April, 2004

Eatonville Elementary students
Friday, April 2, 2004
Three storytelling concerts were provided for the whole school on themes relating to Honesty, Friendship and Kindness.

March, 2004

Information, Silence, and Sanctuary
Professor David Levy of the Information School at the University of Washington organized a two-day, invitation-only conference. Speakers include Bill McKibben, John Seely Brown, and Geof Bowker.

Too much information and too little time to digest it. Attention pulled in a thousand directions, and by the very technologies - cell phones and handhelds, email and the Web, cable TV and satellite radio - that promise to inform and connect us. An accelerating pace of life leaving no time to relax or reflect. These are some of today's common complaints in our information-rich, technology-infused society. Increasingly, people express a longing for a more harmonious life, a life better balanced between work, family, and community; between fast-paced productivity and leisurely reflection; between compulsive consumption and just plain living.

Why we are being overloaded and overwhelmed. Is it a technological problem? social? economic? political? spiritual?
Allison Cox tells stories about "Why is this happening?"

March 2004

Kitsap Water Festival
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Allison will tell stories in the 45 foot Salmon Tent at Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington during the 2003.

February, 2004

Vancouver Society of Storytelling
Presents The Kalevala, a wondrous Finnish epic will be told by 30 storytellers from across Canada and the U.S. as they present a weekend of Kalevala tales, in conjunction with Finnish House at the Scandanavian Community Centre. The Kalevala is epic mythology containing stories some 5,000 years old. Stories of Creation, the birth of song, the origin of fire unfold in an ancient world rich in spirits of forest, sea and sky. Compared with the likes of Homer for its epic narrative and literary genius, The Kalevala has become a cornerstone of Finnish cultural identity.

February 2004

Allison Cox and Antoinette Botsford
Tell the tale of Antero Vipunen
Vainamoinen decides to build a boat to go back to the north country. It is completely done, but still lacking three words to be ready to sail. Vainamoinen goes in search of the three words. He searches many places and finds out he must go to the monster Antero Vipunen, wearing iron shoes and shirt. The monster swallows Vainamoinen who makes Antero Vipunen sick and threatens to eat his liver. The monster promises to give him words. And so Antero Vipunen sings and sings and sings until at last Vainamoinen hears the words he needs - from the time of the very earliest humans.

Beginning in 2004

Remann Hall Storytelling
Allison Cox has been involved for three years now in ongoing monthly storytelling with the teens at Remann Hall, the Pierce County Juvenile Detention Center. This storytelling project is in conjunction with the work being done by the Communicable Disease Dept. of the Tacoma Pierce County Health Dept.