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Award winning StoryTeller Calvin Sims at the Cumberland Gap
(Tennessee) StoryTelling Festival - October 2003
Since 1996, StoryTellers
of the American (SAF) has provided robust educational programming
and is rapidly becoming the standard for arts-in-education programming.
Many schools have us each year. We often provide programming for high
schoolers who first experienced our programming in their elementary school.
There is no school our educational organization too remote to enjoy
this programming. SAF serves the education community from Savannah to
San Francisco.
Going to Work: Bacon County Elementary School; Alma, Georgia
There
is nothing that is more exciting and more American than the Cowboys,
Indians and Mexicans who blazed the trails west. We bring real
western men and women to life in an exciting journey back in time
with a sensational twist. The men and women are all real and
they are all Americans.
Their
stories are presented in a dramatic format that is as exciting as
it is educational and informative. Children and adults of all
ages, gender and races delight in these colorful and visual images.
All presentations are upbeat positive and deliver a message with emphasis
on Character and Integrity.
The
Customizable presentations can be formatted to be suitable to anti-drug,
anti-violence, conflict resolution, family development and motivational
needs.
Whether
you are an elementary, middle or high school, recreation center,
youth development center, housing authority or other organization.
STORYTELLERS can design the RIGHT program for you.
Crafts
Program (at least 1 storytelling session required) $4.50 each Student...($150.00
minimum )
$50.00 Discount for 150 Students, $100.00 Discount for 300 Students Program Duration 30 - 45 minutes no maximum class size Now Available On-Line
This program is a combination of a subscription to the Buckaroo Buddies Activities Newsletter as well as a combination of In-School StoryTeller Sessions.
3 Sessions of StoryTelling $600
Subscription for the entire school $150 per month
This program is much more than a letter exchange. Of
course there is the typical letter exchange, but there is so much more.
Master StoryTeller Calvin
Sims travels across American bringing his powerful imagery and making
friends in schools from Savannah to San Francisco, from Miami to New
York. Student Groups who participate in this unique program receive letters
and post cards from some of the most exciting locations in our nation.
Students anxiously await each Month's Activity Workbook
& Newsletter. This Workbook contains exciting activities that help
students to apply their math, history, geography, writing, reading and
penmanship skills to practical real life situations. Student activities
include exercises and puzzlers that allow them to help the StoryTeller
calculate mileage and distance. They actually help him to work out the
logistics of his trips. Parents will be amazed when they take family
outings at how much useful information their child can contribute.
The students even send the StoryTeller on scavenger
hunts to historic sites and tourist locations. They are excited to receive
his reports and findings.
Special pages for educators serve as a resource for
the teacher/coordinator.
The excitement reaches explosive proportions
when the StoryTeller arrives at the school and spends
the whole day there telling stories.
There is no more exciting program
in schools than Buckaroo Buddies.
Citizenship
Camp
Build a Country; Build a Corporation, Build a Family
These are the three components of an amazing workshop.
This program consists of discussions and activities that allow participants
to gain practical experience in the responsibilities of success.
Unlike most of the youth's experiences, the focus is not on the material
privileges of success but on the responsibilities.
Students learn and practice the character and integrity
required to function as an American Citizen.
The Build a Country module is based on
the premise that the participants along with hundreds of survivors
are stranded on a desert island. The group of them has been selected
to form a country and create a government of laws. They are to establish
agencies to serve and protect the people. The are to elect officers,
set up departments, provide jobs and create an economy among other
tasks.
The Build a Corporation module narrows
the focus from a country to a major corporation. In the second module,
youth are dealing with lifestyle and individual choices for the first
time as they develop departments and interview candidates to fill
vital human resource needs. Students have to make practical decisions
based on budgets, demographics, marketing, goals, government regulations
and more.
The focus is narrowed further. The lifestyle and
individual choice issues are now major decision making factors. The
students are given an opportunity to practice Adult life. They have
careers to manage in addition to children and a household.
In addition to making decisions concerning the welfare
of their family and household. Students must also be involved in
their community in order to maintain their standard of life.
Based on the universal fascination the world over
has with all things Western, the American Cowboy is the
most powerful, most recognized icon of all. The imagery of a bigger
than life cowboy who is also a Teacher, who is also a StoryTeller,
who's favorite pastime is reading and who may have brought his horse
is an image to last a life times.
Bring history to life in your classroom or assembly.
Exciting true stories of character and integrity introduces students
to everyday, ordinary people who's vision spawned the greatest nation
in the history of the world.
A Master StoryTeller dramatically weaves the life
of these extraordinary men and women, American heroes all, in a way
that is fun and exciting. You can almost hear the wagons roll or
feel the campfire's glow.
The StoryTelling sessions are designed to raise
the awareness of young people of the kind of people that their ancestor
were. This program can also improve student involvement in classroom
activities. These programs have been proven to encourage children
to read.
An assortment of western crafts fashioned to replicate
items from Frontier and Indian Lore. Craft materials include arrowheads,
eagle talons, pony beads, concho's, bones and other items from the
frontier.
Each craft has a positive spirit in the tradition
of their lore. The spirit is a positive empowering spirit that teaches
life's lessons in the five principals of success and long life.
Self Reliance [a self-esteem message]
Harmony [an anti-violence message]
Independence [an anti delinquency message]
Purity [an anti-drug anti-anger message]
The craft assembly session is fun and exciting.
While instructions are given, the story behind each symbol is dramatically
revealed. Then, when the crafts is completed, there is a solemn
ceremony where the spirits' powers are captured by each student.
This empowering symbol is the student's reminder of the components
of long life and success.
The beautiful keepsake that they have the
pride in having constructed themselves is a bonus.
Everyone of us is at one time or another a StoryTeller.
The professional StoryTeller is different from the everyday ordinary
StoryTeller in that he has mastered the tools that he carries in
his tool box.
If every one is a StoryTeller, does everyone have
a tool box. The answer is most definitely. The toolbox is most
certain to contain tools such as facial expression, gestures, voice
inflection, pantomime and many, many more tools.
Our Master StoryTellers can unlock the student's
toolbox and help him/her discover a wealth of communications tools
that can make him/her a more effective communicator.
The object is to be able to tell a story or relate
an event in such a compelling manner that the audience is compelled
to hang on 'till the end of the story.
The end result of this fun and powerful workshop
is that even the most timid student is able to express him/her
self in a much more expressive and dynamic way. Students also develop
greater listening skills and are much more observant to the other
more subtle forms of expression.
This is a very energetic workshop with plenty
of opportunities for the students to perform.
There will always be at least one Professional
StoryTeller in the room,
Other StoryTellers are discovered at every session.
We bring African American
Heroes to life before your student's eyes in a format that
they will never forget. They will learn of the struggle,
the sacrifice and the adversity that were overcome, and they
will come away with a valuable lesson in courage, persistence
and honor.
Whether the story of York,
the slave who was a critical member of the Lewis & Clark
Expedition, William Cathy/Cathy Williams the hero of the Apache
Indian Wars or Bass Reeves the greatest lawman who ever lived
- You won't see these stories on TV or at the movies - But They
Are Real!!!
The character and integrity of
these amazing people is illustrated. Students are inspired by
recognizing that their own character and integrity is the power
within themselves that is the legacy left them by their ancestors,
the men and women, black and white, Mexican and Native American,
who built the greatest nation in the history of the world.