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Topic: 1996 Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival
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Details the 1996 Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival including tellers appearing, Junior Storytellers, Committee members and comments from members of the audiences.
Festival held at St. Matthew's Collegiate, Pownall Street, Masterton 25 - 28 October 1996
"Three apples fell from heaven, one for the storyteller, one for the listener and one for the one who heard."
Storytellers:
USA John Braden Dashby
Jay O'Callahan
Doug Lipman
UK Mary Medlicott
Hawaii Makia Malo
Australia Gillian Di Stefano
New Zealand Nigel de Burca
Ralph Johnson
Maggie McLaurin
Barbara Rhodes
Derek Gordon
Young Storytellers:
Nine workshops were organised and run, with 210 students attending, in March by Maggie McLaurin at schools in Hastings, Napier, Waipukurau, Dannevirke, Masterton, Greytown, Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt and Wellington. Regional Competitions were held in June and all judges were impressed by the skill, preparation and presentation of the Young Storytellers. The Final was hosted by the Tararua Community Arts Council in Dannevirke on September 14th and was an outstanding success. Finalists were:
Bailey Symons Beer Clive School Hawkes Bay
Rawiri Hirini Stokes Valley School Lower Hutt
Jason Chasland Wainuioru School Wairarapa
Ora Vella Te Kura Maori o Tamaki nui a Rua Dannevirke
Brian Hotter Wainuiomata College Lower Hutt
Kingi Kiriona Dannevirke High School Tararua
Workshops and Master Class:
Workshops cover a wide range of topics associated with the art of storytelling. A Master Class was introduced this year. Presentations for 1996 were:
Workshops:
Mary Medlicott "Participative storytelling for children including the use of song and chants."
Derek Gordon (Bringwonder) "An exciting exploration of the epic." Together they enacted a Samoan/Tongan story of quest and sorrow and journeyed into the epics of Ireland.
Makia Malo "Using story in caring / counselling situations."
Makia's speciality is creating stories from his own life and experience with Hansens Disease.
Jay O'Callahan "The characters within - bringing your characters alive."
Jay explored how to bring characters alive using sound, detail, imagery, language and movement.
Gillian Di Stefano "The storyteller in you."
Focus on exploring the storyteller within ourselves and how to let that storyteller come out.
Doug Lipman "Tips for Beginning Storytellers."
For those with little or no experience as storytellers.
Liz Miller (Dreamweaver) "Every teacher, every child a storyteller."
Masterclass:
Doug Lipman For Experienced Tellers
Post-Festival Comments:
- The tellers and the stories are different from the last Festival yet they awaken the same hunger for them, which the first Glistening Waters began. Storytelling is food for the soul.
- From a Young Storyteller. "It was - like - wow! It blew me away. I didn't know there were so many Storytellers. I know now what I am going to be when I grow up. A Storyteller."
- Bernice and I have enjoyed attending such a well-organised world-class storytelling event. So many enjoyable fun learning opportunities - our souls are sated. From an Australian visitor.
- This festival is a slice of heaven. The quality and diversity of tellers; the organisational excellence of the machine behind the festival; the magnificent contribution of the volunteers; the communion of so many people from such a wide spectrum of society. Hats off - take a bow - Festival Organisers. Ole!
- Magical! Full of wonder, my roots and traditions re-discovered in a new land ... new friends, kindred spirits, building bridges - what a gift to share in the Glistening Waters Festival. USA visitor.
- Staff outstanding. Courtesy 10 out of 10. Fraternity ditto. Organisation 100% Special love to both Maureens. Will be back.
- What an opportunity to listen, to dream, to journey where you had never journeyed and to arrive at your chosen destination. Someone said "Be transformed" and I was. Kia ora. Thank you. Ko te manu e kai ana i te miro nona te ngahere Ko te manu e kai ana ite matauranga non te ao.
- Store your memories like jewels in your heart - then on a dismal day fetch them out and refresh yourself with their beauty.
Committee:
Convenor: Joy Tutty Masterton District Library
Secretary: Maureen Bull Masterton District Library
Treasurer: Peter McNeur Wairarapa REAP
Maureen McEwen Wairarapa Guild Member
Mary-Alice Arthur Wellington Guild Member
Moira Wairama Wellington Guild member
Maggie McLaurin Hawkes Bay Guild member
Wendy Woodhouse Wairarapa Guild Member
Mary Buckner Masterton District Library
Frances Reiri-Smith Takawaenga Masterton District Library
Jerry Melser
Kirsty Caro Wairarapa Guild Member
Anne Major Committee Secretary
Liz Miller Guild President (by correspondence)
