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Experiment #4: The Tone https://ift.tt/40PK7EY Please note: this audio contains material that might be disturbing for some audiences sensitive to loud noises and implied violence.  Listen now to "The Tone" for the upcoming modern folk tale LANDSLIDE, which will premiere later this week.  Sound and music sourced via a Creative Commons license at freesound.org.  See and share the moodboard across our social media. Find your hearth. Tomorrow begins the actual script writing! Want to join the next 9AM and 12PM EST livestream and creative co-working? Connect via our Discord server. This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We are trying to hit $100, or 50% of our goal today, and we're only $49 short! You can contribute now. 

Experiment #4: A Hook https://ift.tt/o2kRLVd There once lived a young warrior named Fletcher, who lived in a village protected by a grand, old, woven wall. When his village is destroyed by a freak landslide, Fletcher goes off on a quest to confront those who failed to protect them from such a disaster–the fates themselves. Landslide, a modern audio folk tale, will premiere….mmm, early next week. Welcome to Day 2, Experiment #4 of the Storyteller Project. You can find the moodboard inspired by yesterday’s collective tarot reading and created during today’s creative co-working by checking out our Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr pages.  We are already 26% of the way to our mini-fund goal of $200! Can we make it to 50% today? Every dollar over our goal goes to the next person who wishes to run this experiment. The fundraiser ends next week, after I finish post the upcoming folk tale! You can learn more at stormfireproductions.com/storyteller, or check out our links in the show notes.  We’ll be back tomorrow with sample audio and another creative co-working session at 12PM ET on our discord channel. Come join us!  See and share the moodboard across our social media. Find your hearth. Want to join the next 9AM and 12PM EST livestream? Connect via our Discord server. This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We have until next week to raise $200! We are already 26% of the way there. You can contribute now.   

Experiment #4: A Collective Tarot Reading https://ift.tt/j6zUKkP Welcome to the Storyteller's Workshop! For day one of the Storyteller Project, Lisette Alvarez conducted a collective tarot reading to inspire a new modern folk tale. By next week, there will be a mini episode in this feed. Between now and then, however, you will get a mix of podcast episodes which include unedited workshopping, sample audio, and a trailer. That's because each day, Lisette will work for a set amount of time based on a part-time workload in their area. So this unedited episode? Didn't want to waste an hour there that could be put towards editing the final product. So you'll hear all the phone notifications, bumping of tables, ums and ahs and stutters. That's the messy work of the story sausage, my friend! The decks used: Liminal Spirits Oracle by Laura Tempest Zakroff The Wildwood Tarot by Mark Ryan (Author), John Matthews (Author), Will Worthington (Illustrator) (Thanks again to Creative Energy in Melbourne, FL for the last-minute deck recommendations and acquisition!) The final spread: The nature of the main character(s): The Stag The nature of the conflict: Fiber The nature of the motivation: The Archer The antagonist: Clay The allies/skills needed: Knight of Bows/Fox What must be sacrificed: Honeybee The messages: Queen of Vessels + Environment A message from collective's shadow: The Wheel See and share the tarot spread across our social media. Find your hearth. Want to join this week's daily 12PM EST livestream? Connect via our Discord server. This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We have 5 days to raise $200! We are already 26% of the way there. You can contribute now.  Transcript (automated by Descript)

The Myth of the Storyteller https://ift.tt/LPaAOoc The myth of how we became storytelling animals. This special episode was made with the support of those who have already contributed to the 2023 Storytelling Crowdfund. All contributers receive a copy of "The Storyteller" paper, a prose research essay I wrote in 2016 on the global archetype of the Storyteller. All contributers for the Bardic Box and above get a special bound and signed copy. We have until Halloween to meet our stretch goal! We are already 75% of the way there. Check out our gift levels and contribute before the deadline! https://stormfireproductions.com/2023-storytelling-crowdfund/  Thank you for listening!  Transcript  

Interview with a Storyteller: Diana Helmuth https://ift.tt/fnWAtF8 With moonlit adventures and witchy revelations, this episode brings on Diana Helmuth, author of new nonfiction memoir "The Witching Year: A memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft" and award-winning "How to Suffer Outside: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and Backpacking".  Diana Helmuth is a nonfiction author. Before delving into writing, she studied anthropology and Arabic at UC Berkeley and went on to moonlight in Silicon Valley’s startup land as an operations manager for several seed-stage companies. Her first book, "How to Suffer Outside", won a National Outdoor Book Award, and her freelance work on travel, millennial cultural trends, and nature journalism can be found in various books and online magazines. When she’s not writing, she helps produce the occasional podcast. Helmuth was born and raised in Northern California. You can find "The Witching Year" (or both of Diana's books!) which is now available to purchase on the links at her website: https://www.dianahelmuth.com/ We are less than a month away from the end of our crowdfunding campaign and only have 4 limited gift slots left. If you'd like to support, please head over to https://stormfireproductions.com/2023-storytelling-crowdfund/ Find us across our social media. Find your hearth. Want to join the next creative co-working? Connect via our Discord server. Thank you for listening.  Transcript (auto-generated by Descript)

PROJECT:BORDERLESS | Teaser https://ift.tt/hX2iPp3 We're trying something new. Support the 2023 storytelling crowdfund and claim your gifts now. There are 2 limited higher-tier packages available, as well as our basic $7+ gift. We have until Halloween to reach $3200!  You can also see the video version (with captions) of this teaser on the crowdfund page, under "The Story" tab.

Ali and the Tower https://ift.tt/Z3UuyXl Ali is an overworked and underpaid scribe who dreams of being a voice of her generation. When her boss, a capricious and calculating god, asks Ali to take the fall for a seemingly innocuous mistake, she must decide if his promise of riches is worth burning out inside an ivory tower.  Listen now to "Ali and the Tower", a modern folk tale and audio short created, written, performed, and produced by Lisette Alvarez as a part of the Storyteller Project. Thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, and listened to the journey so far. We'll be back in November for Experiment #4. All sound and music was sourced with a Creative Commons license at FreeSound.org.  Find us across our social media. Find your hearth. Want to join the next creative co-working? Connect via our Discord server. This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. Help fund the next story. You can contribute now.  Thank you for listening.  Transcript

Experiment #3: The Tone https://ift.tt/evUKRBt Here we seek the audio teaser vibes for "Ali and the Tower", our upcoming mini audio folk tale about an overworked scribe whose strength of will is tested by gods and ivory towers.  Sound and music sourced via a Creative Commons license at freesound.org.  See and share the moodboard across our social media. Find your hearth. Tomorrow begins the actual script writing! Want to join the next 9AM and 12PM EST livestream and creative co-working? Connect via our Discord server. This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We are trying to hit $100, or 50% of our goal today, and we're only $17 short! You can contribute now. 

Experiment #3: A Hook https://ift.tt/wFhvMSs See and share the moodboard across our social media. Find your hearth. Want to join the next 9AM and 12PM EST livestream? Connect via our Discord server. This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We have until Monday to raise $200! We are already 42% of the way there. You can contribute now.  Transcript

Experiment #3: A Collective Tarot Reading https://ift.tt/airUPwg WARNING: Unedited 30+ minute podcast episode ahead. Also mention of blood from a paper cut. Because apparently this particular folk tale requires blood sacrifice.  Welcome to the Storyteller's Workshop! For day one of the Storyteller Project, Lisette Alvarez conducted a collective tarot reading to inspire a new modern folk tale. By Monday, there will be a mini episode in this feed. Between now and then, however, you will get a mix of podcast episodes which include unedited workshopping, sample audio, and a trailer. That's because each day, Lisette will work for a set amount of time based on a part-time workload in their area. So this unedited episode? Didn't want to waste an hour there that could be put towards editing the final product. So you'll hear all the phone notifications, bumping of tables, ums and ahs and stutters. That's the messy work of the story sausage, my friend! The decks used: Tarot of the Divine by Yoshi Yoshitani Next World Tarot by Christy C. Road The final spread: The nature of the main character(s): The Magician The nature of the conflict: The Tower The nature of the motivation: Strength The antagonist: Ace of Cups The allies/skills needed: The Chariot What must be sacrificed: Seven of Cups The message: Ten of Wands A message from collective's shadow: Temperence See and share the tarot spread across our social media. Find your hearth. Want to join this week's daily 12PM EST livestream? Connect via our Discord server. This is an experiment paid for by the Storyteller Project Fund. We have 5 days to raise $200! We are already 24% of the way there. You can contribute now.  Transcript (automated by Descript)

The Seamstress Who Wove The Moon: Part Three https://ift.tt/dPkUQ4z The seamstress must choose which dream she wants to live in...forever. The Seamstress Who Wove the Moon is a modern folk tale written, performed, and produced by Lisette Alvarez. Stay tuned for the next experiment and collective tarot reading, beginning Friday, August 4th. Transcript Stay tuned for more interviews and modern folk tales by signing up to our newsletter, or wherever you find your digital hearth!   If you want to support the work of the Storyteller Project, please consider donating what you can on the website. 

The Seamstress Who Wove the Moon: Part Two https://ift.tt/DNy4xJE Our determined seamstress dreams and weaves, and is nearing the end of both. What shall she do when the steward gives her the final spool of moonbeam? The Seamstress Who Wove the Moon is a modern folk tale written, performed, and produced by Lisette Alvarez. The third and final part will premiere...soon.  Transcript Stay tuned for more interviews and modern folk tales by signing up to our newsletter, or wherever you find your digital hearth!   If you want to support the work of the Storyteller Project, please consider donating what you can on the website.   

The Seamstress Who Wove The Moon: Part One https://ift.tt/ojt6wrZ A seamstress, unlucky in love and unrecognized in talent, is commissioned to create a cloak of moonbeams. This is the first of three parts of The Seamstress Who Wove the Moon, a new modern folk tale inspired by a collective tarot reading. You can visit the whole making of process by listening to the Experiment #2 episodes. Part Two will premiere...soon. You can read more about the change in direction, and--yes--lack of sound design, on the Stormfire Productions website here. The story was written, performed, and produced by Lisette Alvarez.  Transcript Stay tuned for more interviews and modern folk tales by signing up to our newsletter, or wherever you find your digital hearth!   If you want to support the work of the Storyteller Project, please consider donating what you can on the website. 

Interview with a Storyteller: Tracy Chipman https://ift.tt/Pzp75AO Oral storytelling is not a remnant of the past. It is gloriously alive. In this interview with a storyteller, Tracy Chipman shares an aspect of storytelling that is truly mythic. Tracy Chipman uses she/her/they pronouns and resides in Northern Wisconsin occupying land belonging to the Anishinaabe peoples. She stepped onto the path of storyteller 27 years ago sharing her great love of this ancient art with folks throughout America and beyond. She courts and tells deep myth, traditional tales and personal narratives through an emerging, intuitive and performative lens. Tracy also shares her passion for story as a mentor/coach with those curious about stepping deeper into their power as storytellers and those keen to become more mythically aware, aligning with stories as allies for transformation.  She believes storytelling is a co-creative act capable of deep alchemy and forging transforming connections between humans, ourselves and the more-than-humans worlds. Storytelling cultivates deep listening and opens our imaginations to imagine the unimaginable. She has just published her first book, Borealis Mundi - Resting in Place, Loss & Grace and is curious about the gifts orality can bring to the written word.   Links - www.tracychipman.net Borealis Mundi - https://www.tracychipman.net/seasonal   Transcript auto-generated via Descript.   Episode edited and sound designed by Sarah Buchynski.    Stay tuned for more interviews and modern folk tales by signing up to our newsletter, or wherever you find your digital hearth!

The Mouse's Wife https://ift.tt/zspid2r A modern folktale about a young woman's betrothal to an enchanted mouse, and her journey to break the curse placed upon her whiskered husband. THE MOUSE'S WIFE is an audio storytelling spin on various famous fairy tales and myths including Psyche, the Enchanted Pig, and Beauty and the Beast. This audio short story was created as a proof of concept of TALES FROM THE HEARTH for film and podcast festivals.  THE MOUSE'S WIFE was written, voiced, and produced by Lisette Alvarez. Transcript

Interview with a Storyteller: Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall https://ift.tt/Uk6sbBl A spider, a rabbit and a raven walk into a bar...and all hell breaks loose. Well, what else do you expect when dealing with tricksters? The latest interview with a storyteller is a little more like an interview about storytellers. Specifically, the tricksters (and their stories) who have the power to shape our world. Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall is a professor at Leeds Beckett University and has been a full-time Lecturer at the School of Cultural Studies there since 2007. Emily is an expert in the role of trickster figures in the literatures and cultures of Africa and its Diaspora and has published widely in this area, most recently "American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit"; and one that first brought me to her work -- "Anansi's Journey A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance." I highly recommend both.  In this interview, we also mention places where Anansi and Brer Rabbit show up in modern pop culture, including "American Gods" and the latest season of "Random Acts of Flyness", which I also highly recommend. If you know of other modern stories that feature these trickster figures, please reach out as Emily is currently researching this area!    Transcript auto-generated via Descript.   Episode edited and sound designed by Sarah Buchynski.    Stay tuned for more interviews and modern folk tales by signing up to our newsletter, or wherever you find your digital hearth!    

Interview with a Storyteller: M. Molder https://ift.tt/We3siwD One moon related story is still in the works, so here is an interview with a storyteller who also writes moon-related tales. In this episode, we talk about what kinds of stories feed us and making tales that explore the grey areas of life. M. Molder is the creator and all-the-hats wearing producer for the audio drama, "The Moon Crown." They've spent much of their life striving to make art, and have delved into many skills they've always wanted to try out through audio drama. You can find information about the show on https://themooncrown.com or follow along on most social media via @TheMoonCrownPod, with the occasional closer look at the sound design process on Twitter. Transcript auto-generated via Descript.   Stay tuned for more interviews and modern folk tales by signing up to our newsletter, or wherever you find your digital hearth!