Home-Fried Tales by Lyn

Appetizin' News about Lyn's "Home-Fried Tales"!

 Lyn's Greater Columbus Arts Council's Arts-in-Education pages are at http://www.gcac.org/edu/ais_artists.php?search=MA.

Lyn is also a mentor for young authors at Thurber House's writing camps and workshops for young people, and is listed in the teaching artists' directory of the Ohio State-Based Collaborative Initiative (OSBCI) of the Kennedy Center for the Arts; Lyn provides professional development workshops for educators and other mentors through this program. To see info on one of Lyn's workshops, go to: http://www.ohiocitizensforthearts.org/pdf/directory.pdf 

GOOD NEWS!  Two new publications in 2009!  Lyn is proud to announce her inclusion in the following publications, available Fall of 2009:

• The August House Book of Scary StoriesLiz Parkhurst, Editor http://store.augusthouse.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=9157&FullCat=2
  
• Literacy Development in the Storytelling ClassroomSherry Norfolk, Jane Stenson, and Diane Williams, Editors
  Greenwood Publishers order form:  http://www.greenwood.com/books/printFlyer.aspx?sku=LU6944
  

Lyn Ford was selected as a 2008 "Friend of Education" in the Reynoldsburg, Ohio, public school district, for her support and enrichment of learning at Herbert Mills Elementary School through annual Fine Arts and English Language Arts programming as the school's storyteller-in-residence. Lyn is also a 2007 National Storytelling Network Oracle Award for Leadership and Service Award winner.

Check out these audiorecordings and videos from CETconnect.org, Greater Cincinnati PBS and much more:

Hear Lyn share stories at Storybee: http://storybee.org/ where tales for all ages and interests, told by fantastic tellers, are available.

Storyteller Lyn Ford - "The Story of Mr. Death and the Old Woman"http://www.cetconnect.org/cetconnect_video.asp?ID=1449 

Storyteller Lyn Ford with  "A World Tale"http://www.cetconnect.org/cetconnect_video.asp?ID=1380
 
Storyteller Lyn Ford - "Turtle"http://www.cetconnect.org/cetconnect_video.asp?ID=860
 
Lyn Ford's latest storytelling event on WCET!  http://www.cetconnect.org/MediaPlayer.aspx?vid=3520&topic=4

A Video of Lyn Ford is available at:
 Enoch Pratt Free Library
   http://www.prattlibrary.org/home/eStory.aspx:

   Anansi and the common sense

 
 

For more information on the National Association of Black Storytellers, go to www.nabsinc.org.

For more informaton on the National Storytelling Network, go to www.storynet.org

"Breaking into Storytelling with Children" at http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/2007/04/24/lyn-ford-breaking-into-storytelling/

 

 

 

    

 

To contact Lyn, go to:  friedtales@aol.com.

 

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