Hello Friends!
Up here on Orcas Island, summer has been trying so hard to get started, while many of you are sweating and languishing next to fans... For weeks it had been rainy and cold here [our veggie garden not too happy]. Locals were calling it Junuary!
But then summer has finally arrived with the solstice! We have had (some) warm weather and so much else to look forward to this season. And as the sun was getting busy (warming our garden - better late than never!), so were we.
We have been working hard on so many projects: Archiving over 200 of our performance pieces, workshops, new performance pieces, organizing the Orcas Asian American Storytelling Festival, and watering our plants! Here's what we've been doing:
• June 28th-29th: Featured at the Sierra Storytelling Festival where we introducedand 'showed off' our apprentice Riko Takata in 4 of our stories [so exciting] and presenting the workshop 'History is No Mystery' which aimed to 'show and tell' all the different ways we have performed historical or personal stories - musically, woven with movement, braiding 2 stories together, flashback, and more.
• July 11-14: Featured at the National Storytelling Network Conference as well as presented 2 workshops: Strong Like Bamboo [personal stories of racist experiences and resolution] followed by small group conversations, and Nu Wa Rising, about the international storytelling tours we led - the ins and outs of organizing them and the amazing benefits of sharing with storytellers from China, India, So. Korea, Singapore, Indonesia.
• July 15-19: Our 8th Orcas Storyfest featured 12 Asian American storytellers's whimsical efforts to regale the residents of this very mono-cultural and beautiful Orcas Island with folktales, personal tales, ghost tales and more!
And, of course, our long awaited book, Red Altar, has finally been sent to print and will be available to purchase soon! We can't wait, and we hope you can't, either.
The Untold American Tale of a Chinese fishing village... 6 teenagers brave Pacific Storms and are shipwrecked off the coast of California. With the help of Rumsen / Esalen First Nations people, they establish a small fishing village which eventually grew to become a thriving community, the first commercial fishing industry in the region. But a new storm was brewing: the Anti-Chinese Movement of the late 1800's.
All these events coming off of May's premiere of Nancy's theatrically staged mystery radio play Shadows&Secrets! Happy to say the play was well received! The art exhibit accompanying the play and the panel on Chinese restaurants was exceptional as well. And now, our online program Mindful Musings is available on our Youtube Channel. Click the button below to be taken to our channel, and while you're there, why not subscribe?!
This program was Three Asian American Women Heroines. Three Asian American storytellers portrayed these women: Kasturba, Gandhi's wife, Quock Mui of the Monterey Bay fishing villages, and Juno Tabei, first woman to climb Mt. Everest. Be looking for it- coming soon!
And there are many more projects, but will not go on and on here! Have a marvelous summer wherever you are. Stay cool, or warm, safe and happy! And, if it tickles you, please think about a lovely donation to Eth-Noh-Tec so we can continue to provide meaningful programs to all ages and all peoples in our needy world.
Blessings,Nancy and Robert, Eth-Noh-Tec
Eth-Noh-Tec is in part supported by: NEA, CAC, SFAC, G&G Education Fund, SFGFTA and private donors.
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