by storytree | Jan 27, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
How can a simple old folktale be useful for activists and changemakers in complex modern crises? In tabloid papers, Chicken Little has at times been used by cartoonists in extremely dismissive and sometimes savage ways to imply that environmentalists warning of...
by storytree | Dec 24, 2019 | Christmas story, environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Resources
A story is a gift that lasts a lifetime. The story your child will remember the most will probably be the one you tell them, which is why each year, I repost this sweet Solstice tale and encourage story lovers to have a go at telling it themselves in their own way. It...
by storytree | Dec 2, 2019 | Australian stories, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Storytelling
For me, it is the end of an era. My hard-copy story CD’s are nearly out of stock. So to celebrate, I am releasing one super short (roughly 2 mins) video a day starting TODAY, in which I explain seven of my recorded stories and how I think they may be helpful to...
by storytree | May 31, 2019 | Fairy Tales, Local stories, Public Performances, Storytelling
Leave behind your world-weariness and allow yourself to be enchanted at ‘Stories in the Club’, on Sunday, June 9, as members of Mullum Magic Toastmasters weave tales of life, transformation and wonder, from 4 pm at the Mullum Ex-Services Club. The tellers...
by storytree | Dec 24, 2018 | Christmas story, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Stories of the feminine, Storytelling
Each year I repost this sweet Christmas tale, which has no mention of Santa, but a focus on trees and forests, connection to earth. You can also listen to my retelling via Soundcloud. I hope you retell to the young ones in your life, perhaps under your Christmas tree...
by storytree | Sep 30, 2017 | Aboriginal stories, Australian stories, Byron Bay, environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Local stories, Public Performances, Storytelling
Last month Frank Mills in conversation with Malcolm Price, charmed 100 storylovers at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club with portraits of the changing roles of women in Byron from the 30’s to the 60’s. “When I looked at photo’s of past history,” began Frank, “ I could...
