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Eth-Noh-Tec Limited Engagement: April 23-27, 2012 Only! Asia Fantasia
Performance Length: 45-60 minutes Kudos for Courage and Kindness!
Performance Length: 45-60 minutes Post-Performance Workshop – Spoken Word Alive!
Workshop Length: 45-60 minutes Michael Tougias is an interactive storyteller and award-winning author of 18 non-fiction books. From Inspiration to Publication — In all of Michael Tougias' programs, through engaging, informative, and interactive storytelling, students learn how to take the seed of an idea, through the research and writing process, to final publication. Adventures in Colonial New England
Quabbin Reservoir: Past and Present
There’s A Porcupine in My Outhouse! Misadventures of a Mountain Man Wannabe
Discover Massachusetts
Exploring the Hidden Charles: Unfolding secrets of the 80-mile journey from Hopkinton to Boston make students want to head for the river. A Taunton River Journey: From its headwaters to the Mount Hope Bay, this important waterway played a vital role in the evolution of the region over the course of four centuries. 400 Miles Down the Connecticut River: This program includes discussion of log drives, steamboats, the reintroduction of salmon, the latest environmental threats, and wildlife living along the river, from bald eagles to moose. Survival Lessons: Triumph Over Adversity!
Ten Hours Until Dawn (National Bestseller)
For All Michael Tougias presentations: Everyone Has a Story
Stories from the Neighbors
Storytelling: Your Program
For Everyone Has a Story, Stories From the Neighbors, and Storytelling: Your Program: Post-Performance Workshop
Workshop Length: 45-60 minutes Robin Pease New Artist! Native American Storytelling
Performance Length: 45-60 minutes Recuerdo Ser Simpatico (Remember to be Nice)
Performance Length: 45-60 minutes The Right to...Liberty
Performance Length: 45-60 minutes Tales from African Traditions
Performance Length: 45-60 minutes
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Master storyteller Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo of Eth-Noh-Tec delights students with folk tales and myths from Asia: Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Afghanistan, and other Asian cultures. His engaging performances take you on an adventure of the imagination, weaving a variety of traditional tales with music, movement, and wild facial gestures to bring the characters and places to life. A few examples from his repetoire include “Firedog” (Korea), “Rainbow Mudbabies” (Philippines), “Mr. Pepper Peel and the Parrot” (China), and “The Bird of Happiness” (Tibet).
Students are guided on a historic journey (1620–1676) from the Pilgrims’ first landing at Plymouth Rock to the war between the colonists and the Native Americans, known as King Philip’s War. A demonstration of arrowhead making, artifacts, and a prehistoric throwing stick gives students a hands-on approach to understanding the era.
Michael Tougias shares the lessons learned about goal attainment and decision-making under pressure realized while researching his two national best-sellers, Ten Hours Until Dawn and Fatal Forecast, as well as from interviewing dozens of people who have overcome tremendous obstacles or those who have survived disasters despite incredible odds. Students learn that the techniques used by survivors offer guidance to achieve dreams, manage change, operate at peak performance, and to lead more fulfilling, productive lives.
Michael Tougias tells the story of the dramatic and heroic sea rescue and tragedy off the Massachusetts coast during the Blizzard of 1978. With 40-foot waves and winds at 100 miles per hour, the pilot boat Can Do set out from Gloucester to assist a lost Coast Guard boat and an oil tanker in a mayday situation. Michael takes students through this incredible night where many lives hung in the balance.
In Everyone Has a Story students are led on an enthusiastic journey about the bookmaking process and, most importantly, an eagerness to tell and write their own stories. Norah Dooley is a critically acclaimed storyteller and children’s author whose books, Everybody Cooks Rice, Everybody Bakes Bread, and Everybody Serves Soup teach about the commonalities that bring us together – lessons worth repeating again and again!
In this multicultural storytelling program, folk tales and fables include stories centered around social justice, immigration, tolerance, and diversity. Stories from the Neighbors embraces the cultural diversity that is found within our communities and shows students how much they can learn from people in their own neighborhoods. Students compose sounds to the stories shared, and the assembly culminates with a storytelling game in which the students find and tell their own stories, discovering how their voice is part of the greater communal voice!
Students are led in theater and storytelling games to practice finding the story in their everyday lives and use oral exercises to capture images that are used to develop plot, characters, and rich detail about life experiences that are important to them.
Do your students forget to be nice to each other? In this Central American tale, a mean turtle learns the value of friendship and remembers to be nice. During the program, students participate in Spanish language, song, and learn about animals and places in Costa Rica.
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