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Details of the 1994 Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival including the tellers, workshops, committee members and comments from audiences.
Festival held at St. Matthew’s Collegiate, Pownall Street, Masterton 21-24 October, 1994
I tell the tale that I heard told.” A.E. Housman
Storytellers
Canada Wendy Berner
USA Margaret Read MacDonald
Syd Lieberman
Ireland Eamonn O'Conghaile
Fiji Pio Manoa
Australia Meg Philip-Paterson
James Miller
New Caledonia Leonard Sam
New Zealand Rangimoana Taylor
Kaitrin McMullan
Mona Williams
Nigel De Burca
Barbara Rhodes
Apirana Taylor
Moira Wairama
Junior Storytellers:
Natarsha McElwain of St Patrick School, Masterton
Ora Vella of Kura Kaupapa Maori, Dannevirke
Julie Greaves of Mangamutu School
These three tellers were selected for top honours and told their stories at the “Junior Storytelling Winners” programme on the Sunday afternoon. Their prize for winning their section was a free visit by a guest teller at their school and dinner with the guest tellers on the Sunday of the Festival.
Workshops:
Workshops cover a wide range of topics associated with the art of storytelling. Presenters for 1994 were:
Margaret Read MacDonald
Meg Philp-Paterson
Mona Williams
Kaitrin McMullan
Syd Lieberman
Wendy Berner
Post-Festival Comments:
- Intellectual and emotional overload.
- Fabulous, not just for children’s librarians. Need schools, hospitals, teachers (and underworld) to become involved.
- Wisdom will go with me. Thanks to women.
- Had to fight to get here. Sharing of knowledge. Thanks for everything.
- Would like to honour you all. You are a rainbow of all the colours of the earth. Dreamweaver - crystal. Rangimoana - teacher. Cry from the heart.
From the tellers themselves:
- Thanks for support. “Naval of the earth used to be at Delphi – now it has shifted to Aotearoa.”
- Storytellers come together and communicate as one. Strong connections, travel bringing joy and love. Making peace.
- Would like to honour you all. Thanks for asking me back. Thanks to the audience. In the beginning was the word and it’s a story. May this go on.
- Thanks for the support for the new kid on the block in storytelling.
- Strength and unity. Wisdom and diversity of storytellers. See you in two years time.
- Life is a journey. “May the road rise with you.”
Committee:
Organiser: Maureen McEwen
Secretary: Maureen Bull
Treasurer: Maureen McEwen
Joy Tutty Masterton District Library
Merrilyn Bartram Wairarapa Guild Member
Rod Garden Wairarapa REAP
Peter McNeur Wairarapa REAP
Frances Reiri-Smith Takawaenga Masterton District Library
Mary Buckner Masterton District Library
Kathy Stuart Wairarapa Guild Member
Elizabeth Miller Corresponding Input President, New Zealand Guild of Storytellers
(Photo to come)
Maureen McEwen (left) and Maureen Bull (right) with the trophy they received from the New Zealand Events Marketing and Management Conference, held in Christchurch, in July 1995. The trophy was for ‘The Most Unique Event in the North Island’. The award recognises the Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival held in 1994.
