connecting stories: 04/12/08

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Storytelling for Children ~ Keene, NH

Wow! What a time! I played music with John Porcino and got to hear Laura Simms' amazing keynote. The concert at 3PM included Motoko, John Porcino's 3rd grade student, ( who rocked the house with her rendition of "How to Change a Bad Habit") John Porcino his own self, KR Glickman and Tony Toledo all in one day. For those who took my workshop, you will find a pdf of materials here: http://web.mac.com/dubhhero. All best wishes to old and new friends.

"Art ...enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light."

"Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and unrepeatable experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies about ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to destroy the limitations caused by our ignorance and lack of courage; in short, to fill the emptiness in us: to fulfill ourselves. Art is neither a state of the soul (in the sense of some extraordinary, unpredictable moment of inspiration) nor a state of man (in the sense of a profession or social function). Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light." --Jerzy Grotowski