READ BOSTON 2008 Storymobile Full Summer Schedule as a pdf. For more information, please visit www.readboston.org or call 617-918-5290. All performances are open to the public. Each performance is about 1/2 hour in length. Sometimes, a show be even shorter if there are volunteer readers. At the end, each child gets to pick out a book to read and keep.
Contact me a few days in advance @ doochild6@aol.com if you want to meet me. I travel by bicycle when the weather permits. Look at this blog for next week's schedule. And I recommend googlemaps for directions.
JULY 14th MONDAY
10AM
Dimock/ Smart Kids - 1880 Columbus Avenue, 2nd floor Roxbury 02119
11:15AM
Children's Services - 520 Dudley Street Roxbury 02119
1:15 AM
DotWell Atlas Adventures - 1353 Dorchester Ave. 02122
JULY 15th TUESDAY
10:00 AM
Sociedad Latina - 1530 Tremont Street, Roxbury 02119
11:15AM
Parker Hill Fenway Head Start - 716 Parker Hill Street, Roxbury 02120
1:15 PM
Mission Main Summer Program - 39 Smith Street, Roxbury 02120
JULY 16th TUESDAY
10:00AM
YMCA,Kids Stop 1208 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury, 02132
11:15AM
Willow Path Child Care - 5-7 VFW Parkway, Roslindale 02131
1:15PM
Agassiz Community Center - 20 Child Street Jamaica Plain 02130
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Tonight at Gulu Gulu Speak Up- thanks!
Thanks Tony T, Bob S and Don White and all the good folks at the spoken word open mic at Gulu Gulu Café , Lynn MA . Mad props to all who cooked, served, listened, read, ranted, raved, emceed and told. A great place and a great night of words, ideas and passion. Here is the link to the podcast I mentioned about Boys Wearing Pink Click on the link or cut and paste. http://storypodnewengland.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=309548
For more stories about people doing good in the world see: http://www.globalonenessproject.org
Sending you all peace love and courage. See you next time when Laura Packer is the feature!
Norah
Gimundo Canada: Students Wear Pink to Stop School Bullying
3/25/2008
School can be as traumatizing as any battlefield. There are the locker room wedgies, the Dodgeball attacks, the lunchroom shunnings. But even the most cringe-worthy moment from your high school days probably doesn't compare to the humiliation felt by one freshman male from Central Kings Rural High School in Nova Scotia, who dared to wear a pink shirt on the first day of school last year. The poor boy paid dearly for his fashion choice: A group of older students mocked him relentlessly, threatening to beat him up. The incident might have served as a warning for other males at the school to avoid anything in pastels. But instead, two senior boys, David Shepherd and Travis Price, took up the bullied boy's cause as a rallying cry.
"Kids don't need this in their lives, worrying about what to wear to school," Price told The Chronicle Herald. "That should be the last thing on their minds." The two seniors were sick of the abuse – so they came up with a plan to make the bullies see red. Or rather, pink.
The following day, the two boys came to school armed with a pile of 75 pink tank tops, which they handed out to all of the male students to wear – including the bullied freshman. As word of their mission spread through the school, more students showed up wearing something pink of their own. Shepherd and Price estimated that around half of the school's 830 students put on something pink in solidarity. "The bullies got angry," Chase said. "One guy was throwing chairs (in the cafeteria). We're glad we got the response we wanted." The stunt proved so popular, in fact, that it's led to an official Anti-Bullying Day in Nova Scotia on the second Thursday of every school year. British Columbia has recently adopted their own version, on February 27th of each year. For both holidays, students are encouraged to dress in pink to show acceptance of their fellow students, proving that there's nothing wrong with showing your true colors after all.
http://www.gimundo.com/Articles/Daily/906
For more stories about people doing good in the world see: http://www.globalonenessproject.org
Sending you all peace love and courage. See you next time when Laura Packer is the feature!
Norah
Gimundo Canada: Students Wear Pink to Stop School Bullying
3/25/2008
School can be as traumatizing as any battlefield. There are the locker room wedgies, the Dodgeball attacks, the lunchroom shunnings. But even the most cringe-worthy moment from your high school days probably doesn't compare to the humiliation felt by one freshman male from Central Kings Rural High School in Nova Scotia, who dared to wear a pink shirt on the first day of school last year. The poor boy paid dearly for his fashion choice: A group of older students mocked him relentlessly, threatening to beat him up. The incident might have served as a warning for other males at the school to avoid anything in pastels. But instead, two senior boys, David Shepherd and Travis Price, took up the bullied boy's cause as a rallying cry.
"Kids don't need this in their lives, worrying about what to wear to school," Price told The Chronicle Herald. "That should be the last thing on their minds." The two seniors were sick of the abuse – so they came up with a plan to make the bullies see red. Or rather, pink.
The following day, the two boys came to school armed with a pile of 75 pink tank tops, which they handed out to all of the male students to wear – including the bullied freshman. As word of their mission spread through the school, more students showed up wearing something pink of their own. Shepherd and Price estimated that around half of the school's 830 students put on something pink in solidarity. "The bullies got angry," Chase said. "One guy was throwing chairs (in the cafeteria). We're glad we got the response we wanted." The stunt proved so popular, in fact, that it's led to an official Anti-Bullying Day in Nova Scotia on the second Thursday of every school year. British Columbia has recently adopted their own version, on February 27th of each year. For both holidays, students are encouraged to dress in pink to show acceptance of their fellow students, proving that there's nothing wrong with showing your true colors after all.
http://www.gimundo.com/Articles/Daily/906
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Norah's performance Schedule for this week July 7- 11th
JULY 9th WEDNESDAY
Storytrain @ 10 take the commuter rail to Rockport MA from North Station. There will be public performance @ lunch time in Rockport, MA at Millbrook Meadow. For details contact: Sara Collins 978-526-7711: scollins@mvlc.org
JULY 10th THURSDAY
10:00AM
Roxbury YMCA, 285 MLK Blvd., Roxbury MA
11:15AM
HBCooper Community Center, 1891 Washington St., Roxbury
1:15PM
Vine Street Community Center, 339 Dudley Street, Roxbury
Theater of the mind -listener feedback
Today, at the end of a story session a teen aged girl came up to me and said, " That was great, I totally saw and heard everything you said." Music to my ears! I thanked and told her this was the highest praise. What we storytellers are doing is theater of the mind and it is sweet when the words and movements work well enough that a listener can tell you that they saw and heard everything - that they actively created the story as they listened.
Storytrain @ 10 take the commuter rail to Rockport MA from North Station. There will be public performance @ lunch time in Rockport, MA at Millbrook Meadow. For details contact: Sara Collins 978-526-7711: scollins@mvlc.org
JULY 10th THURSDAY
10:00AM
Roxbury YMCA, 285 MLK Blvd., Roxbury MA
11:15AM
HBCooper Community Center, 1891 Washington St., Roxbury
1:15PM
Vine Street Community Center, 339 Dudley Street, Roxbury
Theater of the mind -listener feedback
Today, at the end of a story session a teen aged girl came up to me and said, " That was great, I totally saw and heard everything you said." Music to my ears! I thanked and told her this was the highest praise. What we storytellers are doing is theater of the mind and it is sweet when the words and movements work well enough that a listener can tell you that they saw and heard everything - that they actively created the story as they listened.
Speech and learning
Thanks to Karen Chace [ http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html ]
for this interesting article:
Tuesday July 8, 2008
The Guardian
for this interesting article:
Rising number of primary pupils unable to speak in sentences
Polly Curtis, education editorTuesday July 8, 2008
The Guardian
The number of children who arrive at primary school unable to speak in full sentences is rising, according to a government review which today reveals that 7% of children now have a serious communication problem.
A rise in "home-related" speech problems, shown by children who are not encouraged by their parents to speak from an early age, is fuelling the increase, according to the Tory MP John Bercow, who has carried out a review for the government.
In some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country, up to 50% of children had speech problems, he said.
Bercow's review calls on schools to monitor speech development from the start. It will request more information for parents on what to do if their toddlers do not start talking.
Children's problems range from stuttering and a general "impoverishment" of language if not encouraged to speak to autism and speech difficulties among those with hearing loss. "The 7% are those who have big difficulties with speech or language - they are likely to need specialist or targeted intervention," Bercow told the Guardian. "For others, the home is a factor. If a child is exposed to a relentless diet of TV and computer games and deprived of interaction at home, that is very damaging."
He said schools had neglected the issue. "Instead of being an optional add-on, communication skills should be at the heart of the primary curriculum ... speech and listening have been elbowed out of schools for literacy and numeracy for too long."
The report describes speech difficulties as the "unrecognised" problem in the education system, much as dyslexia was 20 years ago. It calls for children to be monitored and for better training for teachers, nursery workers and childcare workers.
Ministers are expected to respond to the report tomorrow with a promise of funding for a school programme that will encourage better communication skills and help teachers identify problems.
Bercow, who has a son, aged four, with speech problems associated with autism, said he was told regularly that his child's issues would "sort themselves out" in time. "It doesn't get sorted out - people have fewer options through life if they cannot speak," he said.
Virginia Beardshaw, chief executive of I CAN, a speech charity, said: "Communication is the fundamental life skill for the 21st century."
Monday, July 7, 2008
Read Boston & Norah's Schedule for this week July 7- 11th
READ BOSTON 2008 Storymobile Full Summer Schedule as a pdf. For more information, please visit www.readboston.org or call 617-918-5290.
All performances are open to the public. Each performance is about 1/2 hour in length. Sometimes, a show be even shorter if there are volunteer readers. At the end, each child gets to pick out a book to read and keep.
Contact me a few days in advance @ doochild6@aol.com if you want to meet me. I travel by bicycle when the weather permits. Look at this blog for next week's schedule. And I recommend googlemaps for directions. The Story Train ( see July 9th) is the brainchild of NOBS - a consortium of North Shore Librarians. Try Sara Collins at Manchester by The Sea Library for info or any Children's Room Librarian on the Rockport T line.
JULY 7th MONDAY
11:15AM
Wang YMCA - 8 Oak Street, West. Boston
1:15 AM
Salvation Army - 1500 Washington St., Roxbury
JULY 8th TUESDAY
10:00 AM
Log Preschool 222 Bowdoin St., Dorchester
11:15AM
Codman Square Library, 690 Washington St, Dorchester
1:15 PM
Murphy Community Center, 1 Worrell Street, Dorchester
JULY 9th WEDNESDAY
Storytrain @ 10 take the commuter rail to Rockport MA from North Station. There will be public performance @ lunch time in Rockport, MA at Millbrook Meadow. For details contact: Sara Collins 978-526-7711: scollins@mvlc.org
JULY 10th THURSDAY
10:00AM
Roxbury YMCA, 285 MLK Blvd., Roxbury MA
11:15AM
HBCooper Community Center, 1891 Washington St., Roxbury
1:15PM
Vine Street Community Center, 339 Dudley Street, Roxbury
All performances are open to the public. Each performance is about 1/2 hour in length. Sometimes, a show be even shorter if there are volunteer readers. At the end, each child gets to pick out a book to read and keep.
Contact me a few days in advance @ doochild6@aol.com if you want to meet me. I travel by bicycle when the weather permits. Look at this blog for next week's schedule. And I recommend googlemaps for directions. The Story Train ( see July 9th) is the brainchild of NOBS - a consortium of North Shore Librarians. Try Sara Collins at Manchester by The Sea Library for info or any Children's Room Librarian on the Rockport T line.
JULY 7th MONDAY
11:15AM
Wang YMCA - 8 Oak Street, West. Boston
1:15 AM
Salvation Army - 1500 Washington St., Roxbury
JULY 8th TUESDAY
10:00 AM
Log Preschool 222 Bowdoin St., Dorchester
11:15AM
Codman Square Library, 690 Washington St, Dorchester
1:15 PM
Murphy Community Center, 1 Worrell Street, Dorchester
JULY 9th WEDNESDAY
Storytrain @ 10 take the commuter rail to Rockport MA from North Station. There will be public performance @ lunch time in Rockport, MA at Millbrook Meadow. For details contact: Sara Collins 978-526-7711: scollins@mvlc.org
JULY 10th THURSDAY
10:00AM
Roxbury YMCA, 285 MLK Blvd., Roxbury MA
11:15AM
HBCooper Community Center, 1891 Washington St., Roxbury
1:15PM
Vine Street Community Center, 339 Dudley Street, Roxbury
Friday, June 27, 2008
Shakespeare + Julius Caesar in Royalston - July 2nd
People think I know what I am doing BEFORE I do it, sadly I haven't a clue. Happily, I really enjoy finding out what we all need to be doing and somehow, it all works out. "It is a mystery!" as the director said in Shakespeare in Love. See the Royalston Shakespeare Company blog for more pics and blather about the project.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
J.K. Rowling Rocks Hahvad Yahd
A friend sent this to me. J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, June 2008 "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination," at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Full text attached.
"..... You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared....." JK Rowling for the full text as a word doc, email me at doochild6@gmail.com
"..... You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared....." JK Rowling for the full text as a word doc, email me at doochild6@gmail.com
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