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Norah Dooley
- Female
- Boston, MA
- United States
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- Events (4)
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Norah Dooley's Discussions
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Started Mar 28
BigMouthOff 2012 Press Kit
Started Mar 27
First Night • 2012 • Podcasts here
Started Feb 29
Norah Dooley's Events
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Break Out # 2 of 4 slams "In Song" Slam
June 10, 2012 from 6:30pm to 9pm – Doyle's Cafe, JP, Boston
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Season IV: Club Passim -- Slam #4
December 17, 2012 from 6:30pm to 9pm – Club Passim
Welcome! from Norah Dooley, storyteller
Latest Activity
Nina LaNegra commented on Norah Dooley's event motherloaded II
Profile Information
- What is your outside web or blog site URL ? Please post at your page - this helps connect you to the world looking for story!
- http://www.norahdooley.com
- What is your preferred email address for contact?
- doochild6@gmail.com • as cofounder of massmouth: norah@massmouth.com
- Are you a performer of story or listener, both, other? Tell us a bit about yourself...
- performer, listener, organizer, and gadfly • For preschool, elementary, middle, and high school and Adults • Personal narrrative, folktales, fairy tales, Italian and Irish folktales with music, world folk tales from many cultures, and wisdom tales.
Norah Dooley's Videos
LINKS & BIO FOR NORAH DOOLEY
http://www.norahdooley.com http://norahdooley.blogspot.com/
Biography Norah Dooley is a storyteller and children’ s author. Norah’s widely acclaimed picture books, Everybody Cooks Rice, Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Serves Soup and Everybody Brings Noodles, (Carolrhoda Books @ lernerbooks.com) are four titles in a series about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA Norah Dooley has published 5 storytelling CDs. Norah appears in schools, libraries and teacher’s conferences. She has performed as a featured storyteller in the Christmas and Spring Revels in Cambridge and Boston MA, the Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Albany NY River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA and at the Clearwater Festival. Norah has been presenting workshops and stories for people of all ages throughout New England and also in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Phoenix. In NOV 2011, she lectured and performed in Tokyo Japan at several universities and other venues.
Norah has published 6 spoken word CDs available at CDBaby including Music of Angels (1999), Stories Nobody Told Me “Italian” Folk tales (2002) and Stories from the Neighborhood, World Folk tales (2002), Rabbitales (2006) My Bad,Bad Dog and other Neighbors (2006) and Irish Folk Tales: Live @Passim (2008)
"Norah Dooley is an entrancing storyteller" - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe
Norah Dooley's Photos
Norah Dooley's Blog
Who do we think we are? Who do THEY think we are?
http://www.twentyonehours.com
"Oftentimes, others can pinpoint the theme of your work much easier than you can. This week, I suggest you interview others to begin to narrow your brand. What are you trying to say with your artwork? You may not know. So, this week, bite the bullet and ask 3-5 friends what they think the underlying theme is… Continue
Posted on November 29, 2009 at 11:51pm
from Tony Toledo "Here are ten books I love....What are ten books you love?"
by Tony Toledo.
1. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas Basbanes. HC 1995. 1st/3rd with the front end page ripped out. (How cruel some people can be.)… Continue
Posted on November 29, 2009 at 9:32pm
Brother Blue’s story lives on for many
Mourners honor famed storyteller
By Brian MacQuarrie Boston Globe November 9, 2009
CAMBRIDGE - On a beautiful, color-dappled afternoon, an upbeat stream of artists, dancers, puppeteers, and storytellers walked into a North Cambridge funeral home to pay their respects to the man who lay inside. The deceased wore a blue beret, sported a multicolored jacket, and rested in a coffin draped with a dazzling covering featuring a sparkling blue… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 10:21am
How to Get 100 People to a Show: Slashtipher Coleman's blog Twenty One Hours
Artists and Facebook: Send an Effective Invitation
".... I get tired of seeing lumpy artists lumping around at their poorly attended events because they didn't take the time to do the things I suggest. "But I sent out a press release," they say. "And I sent out facebook invites," they say. " click on link below to go to his blog directly - great read !…
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Posted on November 9, 2009 at 12:50am
More on Cooking up a Story...
JOURNALING: SHOPPING as
COOKING: WRITING
Andrea and I spend a lot of time helping students find rich details to add to their writing. Over and over we emphasize how the five sense can be used to draw the reader or listener into the world and experience of the writer or storyteller. Rarely does it happen that a young elementary student has too much detail. But it does occur in upper grades and in the story world too. In these cases an exercise… Continue
Posted on November 5, 2009 at 3:30am
Comment Wall (92 comments)
- At 12:44am on January 21, 2012,
Maryfaith Goessling said… Sure..You can quote me!
- At 9:12pm on January 3, 2012,
Jack Speranza said… Hi Norah -- thanks for connecting with me here on your site. Yes, it was good meeting you during First Night, too. I'm sorry I couldn't stick around longer to chat with you after the stories ended. I'm not really a storyteller myself... just one who enjoys hearing them and engaging in a littler banter around them ;-) If you ever want to spend a Friday evening in Hopkinton when I'm hosting a ZENMothra, you're always welcome as my guest!
- At 8:06pm on January 3, 2012,
Anuranjan Roy said… Norah, I am greatly flattered! :) But the only thing I share with the Booker Prize winner is my last name. She has a tendency to generate polarized opinion these days and is quite famous/infamous (depending on your opinion) in India. Here's something I wrote about an essay she wrote: WARNING: It's very loooooooong. Firstly her essay of 8 pages (if you haven't read it already) and then mine... http://virtual-inksanity.blogspot.com/2010/05/walking-off-plank-with-comrades.html.
- At 8:09pm on November 28, 2011,
beth kantrowitz said… Thanks for getting us involved!
Take care,
Beth
- At 7:32pm on October 2, 2011,
Lynette Ford said…
Hi, Norah! Thanks for saying hello.
- At 12:58pm on June 14, 2011,
Laura Packer said…
- Hey Norah, I thought this might be useful. http://wildwomanfundraising.com/
- At 10:33am on February 9, 2011,
Amberin Khan said… - Norah, I had so much fun and everyone was simply delightful. I'm so glad I found you guys!
- At 2:59pm on January 13, 2011,
Esther Piszczek said… - Cool! Thanks for the tip and for all of your help with Monday's slam. I truly appreciate it!! Esther
- At 10:10am on January 12, 2011,
MzAmar said… - HI, yes it's me! :> See you soon!
- At 12:57pm on December 28, 2010,
Ray Salemi said… - Thanks, Norah! I'm looking forward to it!
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Photos
Events
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FIfth Annual Summer Storytelling Institute Retreat!
April 30, 2012 at 9:30am to August 5, 2012 at 4pm – Angel's Rest Retreat and Conference Center
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The Art of Creativity Storytelling 3-Day Workshop
May 18, 2012 at 6pm to May 20, 2012 at 2pm – Alice's House, Humarock, Scituate, Massachusetts
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Richard Fries Featured at Story Space
May 22, 2012 from 7pm to 8:30pm – Out of the Blue Gallery
BMO 2012 Winners
Regi Carpenter, 1st prize, Jannelle Codianni, 2nd and Mary Hannon, 3rd Prize
StoriesLive® Winners - 2012
StoriesLive® 2012:
First place, and $1,000 prize
Junior Fernando Ortiz from Revere High School
Senior Amario Malcolm from Boston Latin Academy
Runners-up ($500 each)11th
Alan Estes from Newburyport,
AngelinaFerullo from Everett and
Runners-up ($500 each)12th Caylen Bryant (Andover)
Shavar Lazarus (Boston Latin Academy).
Audience Choice awards:
11th Justin Alexander
(South Community High)
12th Varvarra Valentin
(Lynn Classical High School)
massmouth choice awards:
Juniors
Jennifer MonJoie(Revere)
Bahiya Nasuuna (Chelsea)
Karen Hua (Andover)
Senior
Jason Hittinger (Revere)
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Last Year 2011: StoriesLive® first ever high school story slam. 1st place awarded a $2,000 scholarship Brianda Agramonte, Lynn Classical High School, senior
2 runners up received $1,000 scholarship each: junior Conor Miller Newburyport High School and Mathews DeSouza, Everett High School, Our "massmouth choice" was Sandy Fonseca, Boston Latin Academy, senior [below] She was awarded $500
Lexi Hernando Lynn Classical High School, senior was chosen by the attendees and awarded the Audience Choice prize of $500.
Congratulations all!
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