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Also, please check out the 2002
speakers from our first StoryCon meeting. They were extraordinary-- as
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- Bailey
Barash
barash1@cs.com
bbarash productions, LLC
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a freelance television producer and journalist. Her current work
focuses on issues of aging, public health, and economic and health
care disparities among low income Americans. In February 1999, Barash
left CNN after almost two decades, during which she produced network
news and documentaries in the areas of health, medicine, science and
technology. Programming under her management included the weekly
Science and Technology show, Science & Technology Week, and
breaking science news. The Science and Technology Unit at CNN, of
which she was Executive Producer, won numerous awards, including the
Award for Cable Excellence, the early cable version of the
Emmy. She was awarded several journalism fellowships which
allowed her to study and teach journalism in such locations as Hawaii,
the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary. Barash
received her BS degree in Zoology from the University of Georgia and
her MS degree in Genetics from the University of Melbourne, in
Melbourne, Australia, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.
- Intro
to Story Talk: Birthing
a New Model of Story:
CNN: The Early Days – How we nailed the stories and missed
some along the way
- Plenary Talk: The REAL reality TV – personal story as a social marketing
too
- 2 Hour Workshop: Life review -
how it can increase your self awareness and your ability to connect
with the subjects of your work
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- Steven
Barnes has
published over 15 novels, including several with NY Times
bestseller Larry Niven. His oveuvre includes produced scripts for
Twilight Zone, Stargate, and Andromeda, and includes the Emmy0winning
"A Stitch in Time" episode of the Outer Limits. He's also
created and teaches the Lifewriting System, a method of connecting the
inner and outer worlds of the writer
- talks: 1) The Enneagram of Story structure
(a diagram of non-linear process) 2) Storytelling as hypnotic
induction
Workshop: the Lifewriting workshop
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James
Bonnet,
author
of Stealing
Fire From The Gods: A Dynamic New Story Model For Writers And Filmmakers,
began
his career as an actor on Broadway. He
has written or acted in more than forty television shows and features and
was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of
America. For the last twenty years he has been the director of Astoria
Filmwrights, a research project studying all the significant story models
and theories about story from around the world and their connection to the
creative process, psychology, myth, storymaking and film. His seminar, Storymaking:
The Master Class, is available as a Post Conference Course. www.storymaking.com
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Ben
Callaghan topic: stories empowering youth. Ben will be coming from
Australia to present at StoryCon.
Creating
a Special World: The hero's journey classroom
Hero's
Journey Curriculum: expeditionary learning
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Glorianna
Davenport,is a founding member and Principal
Research Scientist of the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where she directs the Interactive Cinema Group. In 2000,
she co-founded MediaLabEurope, a new research partnership between
the MIT Media Laboratory and the government of Ireland, where she heads
the Story Networks group. Trained as a sculptor and documentary filmmaker,
Davenport has achieved international recognition for pioneering
innovations in digital cinematic forms. Her recent work focuses on the
creation of reflective, improvisational storyteller systems which
dynamically mediate content for an often widely-distributed society of
audience. She has taught, lectured and published on digital media and
story construction
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- Foundations of Story Talk: The twenty-first century: cinematic
arts at a crossroad
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"All things are in process; nothing stays the same"
- Plenary Talk sensible cinema
- Workshop Co-constructing Multiple Point-of-View Narratives
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Dan
Decker author, Anatomy of A Screenplay, director of The
Screenwriters Group, one of the largest independent schools for
screenwriting in the country.Owner/ operator , Stylus Management,.a
writers management company
Intro Talk: Creating the Gap; Storytelling in the second century of the
art form can take new dimensions. This presents us with an opportunity.
Plenary: Storytelling by Omission: Deletion, misdirection, and assumption
become the filmmakers' stock in the story trade.
Workshop: Creating the Gap: Exploiting Cinematic Narrative
Explore the various way to achieve "Gap."
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- Rob
Kall;
StoryCon Meeting Organizer; president
Futurehealth, founder MuPsych Music;
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Stephen
& Robin Larsen: authors of Fire in The Mind, the authorized
Biography of Joseph Campbell, and, The Mythic
Imagination mythmind.com |
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- Lewis E. Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, Authot, Coyote MEdicine
- Coordinator for Integrative Psychiatry and System Medicine
Program in Integrative Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Narrative
therapy: Storytelling and the third wave of psychology.
Plenary Talk: Integrating Narrative Psychology and Quantum
Physics: Which stories are real, which matter, which inform and
create reality.
Workshop: Therapeutic narratives
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Cathy
Lynn Pagano psychotherapist,
screenwriter, mythic storyteller/consultant and teacher, trained at the
C.G. Jung-Institut, Zurich, and working on a book about the archetypal
role of the bard, storyteller and musician.
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- Pre-Conference Talk: Stories that want and need to be Told.
- Plenary Talk: Beyond Apocalypse: Freeing the Imagination
from ancient visions of The End Times
- Workshop: Creating Conscious Female Characters
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Whitney Quesenbery is an
expert in developing new concepts that achieve the goal of meeting
business, user and technology needs. She has produced award winning multimedia
products, user interfaces, web sites, and software applications, as well
as helping companies implement a user experience capability to improve the
usability of their products.
Her approach focuses on the people
who will use these products and builds the design from their needs for
information, interactions and relationships with the product. Her projects
have been large and small, from original HP LaserJet 4 Travel Guide to
corporate information tools for companies such as Novartis, Eli Lilly,
Deloitte Consulting, to applications like hospital management tools for
Siemens. Whitney is active in the user experience community as member of
the Board of Directors for UPA (Usability Professionals' Association), the
UXNet Executive Committee, as the manager of the STC (Society for
Technical Communication) Usability SIG. Before she was seduced by a little
beige computer into software, usability and interface design, Whitney was
a theatrical lighting designer for theatre, dance and opera. Web Site: http://www.WQusability.com
Email: whitneyq@WQusability.com
plenary: How
storytelling brings real people into the world of software design |
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Merrie
Lynn Ross Multi-talented, Merrie
Lynn Ross, comedienne/writer, director/producer, is best known for her
starring role on GENERAL HOSPITAL, portraying the zany and outrageous Emma
Lutz, which honored her with sparkling reviews and eight National Awards.
She has starred on over 35 television shows and motion pictures,
working with ‘comedy greats’ like George Burns, Chevy Chase Henry
Winkler -to playing Marion Davies in a PBS mini-series.
Ms. Ross produced the cult classic
CLASS OF 1984, starring Michael J. Fox, a box office success, and the hit
of the Cannes Film Festival, winning international acclaim and awards. She
produced BOBBY JO & THE OUTLAW and four other movies without missing a
beat.
A
graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC, Ross became a protégé of
Stella Adler, a legend in the American Theater.
Upon arriving in Los Angeles, she landed a starring role in PLAY
DEAD, a CBS telefilm and was awarded a scholarship to USC Film School.
Ms.
Ross’ writing credits include: FOXY LADIES, SOAP BOX DERBY, TOY PATROL,
P.A.C., APT.11E, THRESHOLD, MEDICINE WOMAN, HEART AND SOUL, etc, including
GETTING IT, that was first written and produced, as a smash play, in Los
Angeles, starring Ross in the leading role. COMEBACK
TRAIL, a TV pilot created by Ross is currently underway, and the
critically acclaimed CIRCLE OF FIRE, based on a true story.
A child advocate, whose
passion and dedication catapulted Merrie Ross to spearhead Merrie Way
Community, a 501 C 3, non-profit organization. Dedicated to bring arts and
ethics back into the American schools, efforts are targeted to support
better educational opportunities for our youth. Merrie Way Curriculums-
PEACE SMARTS, MORPH AMERICA, are in schools in California, Texas, New
York, Washington, etc. Impacting thousands of students, teachers and
parents, with opportunities to achieve positive self-expression, enhancing
self-awareness, pro-active life skills through mentoring, peer- group
mediation/interaction and community building.
Morph
America workshops
promote ‘media integrity’ by using film technique, writing and
performance skills. Ultimately
illuminating positive role models and creative life solutions, while
dealing with youth related themes and concerns
HOLLYWOOD
MAGAZINE 4 KIDS BY KIDS, a
platform for the ‘Voice of youth’ to be heard.
Merrie
Way Community works in tandem with filmmakers, community and
business leaders, corporate sponsorship, IBM, Universal Studios,
Microsoft, to partnerships with Girl Scouts, UCLA, LAUSD, etc., and the
community at large in an effort to penetrate social and personal
challenges.
LIVING THE STORY
What puts the life into the story, the emotional
breathe, the passion, the universality?
How can we de-privatize the writing process? When facing the blank
page, apparently alone- tune- in, invent collaborators to expand
storytelling. Playfully orchestrated, we explore the art of ‘social
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- David
Snowden, a Director of
IBM's Cynefin
Centere for Organisational Complexity with
responsibility for Asia Pacific, Europe Middle East and Africa. He is
one of the pioneers in developing the use
of story and narrative in Knowledge Management He regularly
consults at the board level on Knowledge Strategy with some of the
world's largest companies as well as to Government and NGOs. His
master classes in Organic Knowledge Management and Story Telling are
highly rated and regularly sell out. Plenary
Talk: Narrative,
complexity and meaning, pre-conference talk:
White Coated Narrologists and Fluffy New Age
Bunnies, or why we need to get serious about story., "Narrative
patterns: the use of story in organisations" Post Conference 1.5
Day Workshop
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- Bruce
Holland Rogers' Short
stories by have won a wide variety of awards, including a
Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, and the Bram Stoker Award. Rogers
has taught creative writing at the University of Colorado and
University of Illionois. Subscribers receive his short-short stories
via e-mail through his www.shortshortshort.com
web site.
- Preconference Talk: The Cost and Value of Stories.
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David
Sonnenschein,
author, "Sound Design - The
Expressive Power of Music,Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema", feature
film and TV director, musician, vibrational healer (sound, Aikido/Kiatsu,
Brazilian spiritism)
A new way of storytelling in film by collaborating with actors and crew
throughout the process, paying them in fun rather than money (with
hopefully deferred salaries). The creation of story and characters
continues with a crew of about 8 editors each working on a small part of
the film, an unheard of strategy. And the style of the film itself is
quite eclectic, combining comedy, drama, sex, music, documentary and
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David
Vanadia In
1995 David scored his first professional storytelling gig performing for
the Mayor of Parsippany. In 2000 he was named, “One of the few to master
multimedia for storytelling” by NJ Business News Magazine. These days
David is busy performing, consulting,
teaching Tai Chi, creating story-based media, and conducting
workshops.
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Craig
Webb, ,
avant-garde physicist and co-founder/Executive Director of the DREAMS
Foundation (www.dreams.ca)
since 1995, is a renown dreams and consciousness researcher, trainer,
author and spokesman (ABC, CTV, Discovery Channel, AOL, and 100+ others).
He has consulted for television, and is Contributing Editor for Magical
Blend magazine and a founding member and correspondent for Making
Contact (progressive weekly radio show airing on 150+ stations).
introductory
course: Universal Dream Themes as Key Story Elements, Plenary: Awaken
the Creative Dreamer: Harvest Dreams for Storybuilding,
Panel: Stories and the Unconscious
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