Watch this page for further announcements.

During July, purchase the $60 full event ticket for only $15.00

(prices increase next month)

 

 

 

 

 

Read Carol's article on Word Play Strategies for Storytelling!

 

 

Story Plus! Magic You Can Do


Make a Bunny!
Magna Library 1/07/08

Pull a String Through Your Neck!

 

 

See Magic Workshops (below)

 

 

Circle of Excellence Workshops

 

 

"Circle of Excellence" is an elegant process engaging Neuro-Linguistic Programming Principles.

Carol is a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP.

 

 

 

 

 

Continued Access to Free PDF
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The Traveling Tellers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magic You Can Do





Author: Carol Esterreicher

 

Reading Weaves Magic

On January 3, 2007 the Intermountain Assembly of Magicians entertained each other with their first tricks they ever did!

Carol cuts a lady in half....

This is a paper doll and scissors version.

Then there was a mummy for Halloween and

there was a Pilgrim for
Turkey's Revenge!

 

 

 

 





Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute Annual Summer Benefit Event

IBM Ring 193 Magicians participate

 




Pull a String
Through Your Neck!

 

What's New!

Carol and other storytellers are participating in the October-November Salt Lake City Freedom Film and Storytelling Festival. At the Salt Lake City Freedom Film and Storytelling Festival, Brian Fetzer and Carol Esterreicher will again relate the compelling tale of John Baptiste, the goul/graverobber/ghost who haunts the
Great Salt Lake!

 

 

http://www.storyteller.net/tellers/cesterreicher

Enjoy fairy tales and other classics with a new twist! Carol's article on Word Play strategies is one you will be glad you read! You can also hear the popular "Chright Before Nistmas" by clicking on the option.

On this same site, you can choose the link to listen to the Chright Before Nistmas-- the hilarious spoonerized version of the classic Night Before Christmas.

 

Story Plus! Magic You Can Do

Seven of Salt Lake County's Libraries hostedCarol's engaging program during January and February 2008.

 

In November, Story Plus! brings you "Turkey's Revenge!"
Check the November Calendar for library locations and times. Learn to cut a Pilgrim in half--well, not really!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carol's "Circle of Excellence" Workshop in Springdale, Utah is where Storytellers gathered during the first week-end of May. The Spring, 2007 issue of the Taleswapper featured a description of the workshop experienced by Olympus Chapter members of the Utah Story Telling Guild on January 10th.

Three of us had the immediate opportunity to use our "Circles of Excellence" at the Farmington Annual Storytelling Festival sponsored by the Farmington Arts Council.

Those who attended Carol's workshop at the Zion's Storytelling Festival in Springdale, Utah had amazing things to say! Many of their comments will appear on this site soon. Check the [Applause] button. Consider scheduling this workshop for your storytelling event or any other event where participants strive for excellence in their chosen profession, avocation, or passionate hobby!

In the meantime start "daydreaming" about models and mentors (elegant persons) you would invite into your own circle of excellence to support you in your pursuit of storytelling excellence or any other state of excellence.

 

 

More New Word Play!


Use this amusing activity to promote phonological awareness and spelling skills!
Rindercella and the Prandsome Hince!
Beeping Sleauty!


Listen to the outrageous opening lines of
Beeping Sleauty!
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Invite Carol to tell the whole story at your event!

The audience at the First Annual Kanab Storytelling Festival enjoyed Beeping Sleauty. Carol appeared there with other members of The Traveling Tellers Performing Artists Tour.

 


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The Three Piddle Ligs <--Download the pdf.
(Workshops and CD audio tutorial now available)
Use this "Spoonerized" word play to reverse/rearrange sounds and syllables. This activity promotes phonological awareness and spelling skills!

Listen to excerpts of key phrases.

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Gold Spinning Guy<--Download the pdf.
Introduction topic: Lipograms as a literary device featuring omissions of selected sounds.

Rumpelstiltskin without any "R" sounds
This is an original adaptation by Carol Esterreicher.
(Workshops, CD audio tutorial, and complete story now available)

Build an extensive vocabulary! This way of telling (retelling) a story really accesses your personal "thesaurus." The activity promotes use of synonyms in a novel context.

Listen to the opening lines of Gold Spinning Guy.
Notice how all the words that would have contained "R" sounds have been changed!

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Ladle Rat Rotten Hoof (Substitutions)
Carol just performed this spoof at the Utah Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City. The Lunch Bunch event from noon until 1:00 p.m. takes place every work day during the months of May through September. Be prepared for more storytellers in 2007!


(CD audio tutorial and complete story now available)
Soon you will be able to listen to a few lines from the story and download the pdf.


Salt Lake Tribune Close-Up Article on Storytelling

 

The Traveling Tellers-- Janine, Dan, Holly, Carol, Jan, Billie, and Suzanne--storytellers from the Olympus Chapter of the Utah Storytelling Guild--will be touring the state responding to invitations to provide their storytelling programs to schools and other venues during the 2006-2007 and continuing through 2007-2008

 

2008
Utah Arts Council's Performing Arts Tour
season. The directory is available from the Utah Arts Council.

The Traveling Tellers performed in Wellsville near Logan, Utah at the 2006 Tellebration on November 18th. Daniel, Billie, and Carol captivated a story-loving audience of parents and children. Dr. David Sidwell, a Utah State professor hosted the event.

 

What else is "new?" Toastmasters!

Toastmasters International.

Carol has joined the Metro Club which meets on Wednesdays at 6:15 at the wonderful Salt Lake City Library just a few steps from the UTA TRAX station!

Let's find out how this organization views storytelling from a leadership point of view. Carol expects to learn new ways that stories "connect" us, teach us, entertain us, and prompt us to needed action.

AS of March 19, 2008 Carol will have completed the first 10 speeches in the Competent Communicator Series and
the 5 speeches in the Storytelling Series.

 

What's New? (or not really so "new")

Carol has enjoyed membership in the IBM (International Brotherhood of Magicians) Ring #193 for over 10 years. she also belongs to the IMA (Intermountain Magicians' Assembly). Besides the pure entertainment, magic performances are a superb vehicle for communication.

She has traveled with IMA members to present impromptu magical performances at various hospitals, shelters and other venues.

She teaches her school students the basics of finding instructions for magic tricks, organizing props and setting up for a magical performance. Remember music! strobe lights! She can help a beginning magician to make a simple trick look dazzling.

Carol's students have added variety to their school talent shows! This October she taught 75 Kindergarten children how to pull a string through their necks! "I did it!" could be heard all over three different classrooms. The teachers learned how to do it too. Now they each have the entire lesson from Carol's book (left).

Contact Carol to arrange a magic workshop for your student group!

The Magic and Storytelling Connection

Entertainment magic requires a story! It's an elegant communication tool! When we combine an interesting story, vibrant well-honed communication skills, and the enticement of a magic trick, the enchantment is exquisite! During her 30 years as a Speech and Language Pathologist, Carol has tutored numerous school students in this incredible storytelling, performing, and communicating art!

She uses a book she authored called "Now You See It! Now You Don't!--Sequential Tricks for Developing Language. The lessons conform to Bloom's Taxonomy and therefore engage participants at all levels of language understanding and use.

 

Magic Workshops

For Classroom Teachers

Classroom teachers like the way this entertaining activity that utilizes Bloom's Taxonomies (Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor). Magic promotes verbal and social interaction.

Students go straight to their school libraries in pursuit of more! They distinguish themselves in grade level and school talent shows!

Teachers enjoy the generous handouts Carol provides from her book, Now You See It, Now You Don't--Sequential Tricks for Developing Language.

For Seniors

Got Magic? Carol has already held two workshops at the Sandy Senior Center--Magic for Grandmas and Grandpas! Although she is available for hire to provide this enticing hour-long workshop at other locations, Sandy is her "home base" and she performs for free here!

For School Students

Carol teaches school students the art of sequencing the steps and developing the script -- "the patter." She teaches them to perform either to their own script, music, or both. She teaches them how to engage audience participation. Her students have performed in their school's talent shows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visit this link http://www.utahmagic.org/home.htm to the local chapter of The International Brotherhood of Magicians.

 

 

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Contact Carol My email is caesterreicher@earthlink.net
Disclaimer: The availability of information from other organizations indirectly via this page does not constitute an endorsement by Carol Esterreicher. If you are concerned about the accuracy or appropriateness of any information, it is recommended that you contact the original publisher or distributor of that information.
Updated: July 1, 2008