I'm wrapping up a long, lazy Sunday afternoon with my weekly blog about the Kansas City Road Trip. Having just finished whip-stitching three of the reversible blue vests we'll wear during concerts, it seemed appropriate to share with you about what we've been up to this week. We had two old-fashioned sewing bees to cut, assemble and sew the vests under the direction of storyteller Judy Butterfly Farlow, and then divided them up for the final stitching.
While some of us sewed, two of the guild's most loquacious storytellers, Jeff Stratton and Linda Poland,worked on a video to post on YouTube. They had recently hit the streets to hawk our rummage sale, doing such a fine job with it we decided they were the right ones to do our Kansas City Here We Come infomercial. With Delanna Reed, PhD (who is also one of our tellers,) behind the camera, the team produced an excellent piece that tells who we are, and what we are doing. Check it out here - https://youtu.be/2ph0w2LBzn0
They first practiced down at the Jonesborough United Methodist Church, doing it in storytelling style - knowing the topic very well, but going for a nice, spontaneous result. The next day the team went out to Jeff's home, sat on the front porch and filmed something to be proud of, almost off the cuff!
Speaking of proud, the Jonesborough Storytellers Guild is extremely pleased with the combined group efforts of those planning to go on this trip, and those who are working hard to see that we get there. Follow us as we progress towards our goal, help us raise money, and see us plant story-seeds from here to Kansas City, Missouri. At this point, we are booked for 10 gigs in four states beginning in Corbin, KY with the summer school kids July 24, and ending just prior to the beginning of the National Storytelling Network's annual conference in Kansas City. There, we'll have a house concert/story slam with their guild and anybody else who happens to drop by. Does this sound like fun or not? I think it does and I can't wait to don my blue vest, attach my treasured JSG name tag and go forth in story.
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