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Lynette Ford 
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Articles by Lynette
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> My First Big Baby Step
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Listen Now to Lynette
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Amphitheater with Lynette
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> Mesa (Arizona) 2005 Festival*
Directory Member Since:
2002
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Lyn Ford shares "HOME-FRIED TALES"--well-known, unknown, home-grown, or my own"--stories seasoned with humor, hope, and her multicultural African American family’s storytelling wisdom. Lyn is a national storyteller, workshop facilitator and keynote speaker,and a member of the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Artists-in-Schools Program. She has performed on stage, radio and tv, in libraries and museums, preschools, public and private schools and universities, at folk,art, and storytelling festivals, and storytelling and education conferences across the country. Lyn has been a featured teller at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in Orem, Utah, and the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, as well as a storyteller-in-residence at the International Storytellng center in Jonesborough, KY. In 2000, Lyn was the first storyteller in the state of Ohio to be nominated for a Governor’s Award for the Arts.
Lyn’s stories are often participatory experiences for her listeners. Many are enhanced with call-and-response or choral-response activities, sound effects and rhythms from small percussive instruments, songs, or rhymes.Programs available for all ages:
"STEW-POT STORIES" from many places and many faces;
"LET’S THROW STORIES", tales rooted in African and African American story traditions;
"RABBIT TALES RETOLD", stories of the trickster-hero. Many of these stories were handed down to Lyn; she now shares her adaptations of these tales from the grandfolks in her family;
"NOW LET ME FLY", legends and stories from the times and adventures of the Underground Railroad, and
"SPOOKERS & HAINTS", from silly to spine-tingling tales of things that go bump in the night, shared with your listeners’ in mind. Programs specifically for adult audiences are also available. Workshops (Lyn likes to call them "playshops: interactive, educational, and fun") available for adults:
- "THE GIFTS OF STORY: STORYTELLING AND ITS IMPACT ON LEARNING AND LITERACY";
- "TELL IT: EXPLORING STORY STRUCTURE AND THE WRITING PROCESS THROUGH INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING EXPERIENCES" (specifically for mentors of students ingrades k through 2);
- "A STORYTELLER’S PRIMER";
- "ENHANCING YOUR STORY PROGRAMS: SPECIAL TOUCHES FOR SPECIAL STORIES";
- "LIKE PIECES OF A PUZZLE: PUTTING TOGETHER YOUR STORYTELLING PROGRAM"; and
- "STORY AEROBICS: EXERCISING YOUR STORYTELLING MUSCLES". Workshops available for young people:
- "STORY AEROBICS";
- "TALES FROM THE SKY" and "CREATING HOW & WHY STORIES" (grades 3 thru5);
-"I TOOK A TRIP TO THE MOON: AN EARLY CHILDHOOD PLAYSHOP" (preschool and kindergarten), and
- "YOUR STORY, MY STORY, PERSONAL HISTORY" (grades 4 thru 7).  Further Information Available At
> http://www.gcac.org/
> http://lynfordstoryteller.com/
Contact Information:
Lynette Ford
P.O. Box 737
Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068-0737
Country: USA
Phone: (614)237-7605
E-Mail: friedtales@aol.com
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