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A Wonderful January Salon!

Posted in At the Moment, Programs, Salon! You're On! on 01/26/2010 07:50 pm by Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo
This past weekend we had another wonderful Salon! You’re On! at the Eth-Noh-Tec Studio. Powerful storytelling (Jerry Falek), poetic Coney Island photo memoirs and songs (Gary Lapow), vocal loop sound weavings and social messages (Irina Rivkin), satirical political theater (Mimi Motoyoshi and the Makeshift Players), and of course Eth-Noh-Tec, kinetic storytelling theater.

The Crowd Enjoyed...the performances, the food, and community dialogues as they engaged with questions, insights and inspirations, sparked by the artistry of the guest performers. As we are in full swing with our fifth season of the salons, it is clear that all of us, especially in these uncertain times need to feel strengthened by our humanity. The recession, the horrors abroad, and uneasy questions about our society… we hunger for deeper meaning in life: “Who are we as human beings, if we cannot reach out to one another?

How can we make a difference in world where each us can easily feel so small and insignificant? How can we ‘connect’ and feel a part of something positive?”.

To this we say, “Think Global, Act Local, Be Compassionate!: Create! Communicate! Celebrate our deepest passions for the Love of Life!”. For those of you who have been to our Salon series, thank you for co-creating this with us.

Perhaps this little bit of inspiration can fuel the “light” in you to carry on “out there” in the community. For those who have yet to come to our studio- we invite you to attend (Our next salons are: Feb 27, Mar. 13, Apr. 10, May 15, June 5). Be a part of this “light”… help spark it in others.

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Help Eth-Noh-Tec Receive Up to $5000 From iGive Now!

Posted in At the Moment on 01/20/2010 02:35 pm by Eth-Noh-Tec

igiveEth-Noh-Tec has a wonderful opportunity to gain support through iGive and we need your help!

For each person who joins iGive using this special link and does just one qualified web search on iGive’s site between now and 10am tomorrow (PST), iGive will send a dollar to Eth-Noh-Tec. Make more searches and Eth-Noh-Tec benefits more. No purchase necessary.

In addition, you can benefit Eth-Noh-Tec with purchases you make through the same iGive special link at over 700 online stores, stores like Amazon.com, eBay, JCPenney, Barnes & Noble, and Office Depot. Check the iGive merchant list to find your favorite stores. Along with the usual percentage, Eth-Noh-Tec will receive a bonus $5 for each purchase you make.

Act Now to Benefit Eth-Noh-Tec

 

Green Grow the Teachers!

Posted in At the Moment, Green Grows the Story, Programs on 12/02/2009 04:37 pm by Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo
Call Out for Teachers in San Francisco
Eth-Noh-Tec is looking for 5-6 San Francisco teachers who have a passionate commitment to positively impacting global climate change to help heal our planet. Teachers will act as consultants to help Eth-Noh-Tec with their exciting project Green Grows the Story: Empowering our Youth, Healing our Planet.
Storytelling, Curriculum & Activism
Come alive with story writing and performance by the students. (for more in-depth info on project visit www.ethnohtec.org and click onto Green Grows the Story).

Get Together!
(3-4 meetings: between January – April). We need teachers:
2 elementary teachers
2 middle school teachers
1-2 high school teachers.
Gift for Students or School: Each teacher will receive a $100 certificate from Office Depot or art store and a FREE storytelling concert from Eth-Noh-Tec for their school. Each teacher will provide their own classroom for dialogue with Nancy and Robert that will help us further develop our Green Grows the Story project.

How to Apply:
1) a paragraph why you’re interested and what you’ve already been doing about Global Climate Change
2)  your name, phone number and email address, and…
3) the name of the school you’re teaching in and grade level. Thank you so much.

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Eth-Noh-Tec’s Seattle Show Last Night

Posted in At the Moment, Performances on 10/25/2009 10:49 am by Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo

We’re almost finished with our creative retreat this month. Hopefully we’ll keep the momentum up and continue creating new works. Last night, took a break from our writing and illustrating and drove down to perform in Seattle at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center. It was an evening of our favorite Asian Ghost Stories. Since it’s been a while since we’ve performed them we rehearsed a bit (mostly rememorizing old scripts) and through it into the Eth-Noh-Tec mix: movement theater, interlocking dialogue and lots of audience participation.

Besides doing some of our standard duet ghosts stories “New Ghost” and “Dirtball” (both Chinese tales) we did a few of our solo stories as well. Nancy performed “Silk Worm”, a Chinese folk tale with several renditions, this one being the darker psychological version of a young woman, a broken promise, the haunting spirit of a betrayed horse and the origin of “silk”. Robert brought out a eerie story from Tibet, “The Talking Corpse”- the tale of a journey to bring back a corpse from the land of the dead. The young protahnist is warned “do not talk to the talking corpse”. Of course since it’s a spooky tale… what do you think he did? We had several members of the audience, first timers to storytelling, quite surprized at the theatrical and artistic quality of the show, “I’d like to come to see more storytelling events”, one admirer confessed.

If any of you are in SF early next month, be sure to come to the Eth-Noh-Tec studio on Nov. 7, at 7pm. We’re launching our Salon! You’re ON! event, now in it’s FIFTH SEASON! Check out the website.

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Island Times

Posted in At the Moment, Performances on 07/30/2009 10:31 am by Nancy Wang

Hawaii was soooo Hawaii! Balmy caressing breezes, swaying palm trees, blue sky and blue ocean, and that wonderful Aloha spirit – Aloha spirit meaning warm and welcoming, kind and taking time, heart first, mouth later.

Jeff and Dominique Gere’s NSN Regional Storytelling conference was wonderful! So much work they put into it, and it showed. The workshops were informative, some fun as well. We met new and old friends and storytellers as well as were blown away with some island talent. In particular was See, a Shakespearean-like rapper/poet, and Kealoha, a rapper/storyteller – young and full of energy, creativity and inventiveness.

Sherry Norfolk, Lani Petersen, and Margaret Read-McDonald delivered really fine keynotes.

Robert and I stayed at Board Member Ric Trimillos’ Waikiki condo – lucky us, and while Robert was on bicycle, Nancy, after a too-big bike, traded in for a 3 wheel electric scooter! Felt like a really old woman toodling along the canal to the conference! But the open air under morning and night skies was so lovely! And the ground was flat!

Now we are preparing for the last minute details for our 3rd Orcas Island Storyfest Aug.4-8! Right now, Robert is painting the water tank at a major cross-road to advertise the festival! We’ve invited Motoko, Eshu Bumpus and Olga Loya to perform. Also Doug Banner, Antoinetter Botsford, Kelvin Saxton and Annaliese Kamola from Washington are performing in the festival. Good times, good community, good tellers, good food and loads of donations from the community always makes this island festival special. Wish you were here!!

 

Tonight, 7pm: Eth-Noh-Tec Live on KPFA

Posted in At the Moment on 06/25/2009 10:49 am by Eth-Noh-Tec

Join us…

Tonight!
June 25, 2009 – 7pm-8pm
Eth-Noh-Tec Live on
KPFA 94.1 FM radio or streaming live at kpfa.org

Night of tales: Traveling through Asian and Indian villages of storytellers, the performance duo Eth-Noh-Tec tell of peace-making & creation through the power of stories. Hear about our journeys, including a performance at Obama’s Inauguration, and projects mixing myth, message and action. Tales, music and more.