Brandon SparsJan 42 min2020 BlowoutWhat a way to end the year. I thought the Six Feet Apart Productions event would be the last, but then I got a message from Sheila Arnold...
Brandon SparsDec 6, 20202 minSix Feet Apart Year End CelebrationWhat an honor to have been part of the year-end performance of Six Feet Apart Productions. Claire Hennessey and Regina Stoops have been a...
Brandon SparsNov 25, 20203 minTellabration!November is Tellabration! month, and there are online events scheduled all over the nation. Tuesday, November 10 was a joint concert by D...
Brandon SparsOct 24, 20203 minYoung Coyote TalesLast Wednesday, October 21, was the inaugural performance of the Alumni Edition of Coyote Tales. Nine Sonoma Academy alumni submitted fiv...
Brandon SparsOct 10, 20202 minBanter on the Bonkers BritClaire Hennessy, in addition to running Six Feet Apart Productions, is also the host of a blog called The Bonkers Brit. Six Feet Apart ha...
Brandon SparsAug 16, 20203 minRangda is Out!All my life I have wanted to put together a book about the Balinese deity, Rangda. She first captured my imagination more than thirty yea...
Brandon SparsJun 25, 20203 minSummer StoriesTwo great storytelling events went virtual: the National Storytelling Network Conference and the San Francisco Free Folk Festival on June...
Brandon SparsApr 28, 20204 minZooming Through Stories!Yesterday I had the honor of opening for Bil Lepp on Sunday Stories, a weekly event from Six Feet Apart Productions. Needless to say I wa...
Brandon SparsMar 26, 20205 minBuilding on the PotentialI was met with good news when I learned that the Live to Tell Series (two books so far) was awarded with Honors from Storytelling World. ...
Brandon SparsMar 10, 20204 minA Potential BeginningI have been quietly working on a longer performance, and I say quietly because I have not performed in a month or two. But this Spring th...
Brandon SparsJan 6, 20203 minThe Death of an Inspiring Man On Sunday, December 8 at 4 pm in Bali, Indonesia, my father-in-law, Ketut Rutus Daryana, passed away. He was taken into the hospital in a...
Brandon SparsNov 26, 20193 minThe Birth of A New StorytellerSaturday, November 23 was TELLABRATION!™ , which is a storytelling event celebrated in nine different countries and in forty states in t...
Brandon SparsNov 26, 20194 minLearning Another Side of Storytelling For the past two years I have been co-teaching a class called Authentic Voices with the Sound Engineer at our school. My responsibility h...
Brandon SparsNov 12, 20193 minStorytelling Month is Here!November was kicked off this weekend with the SAC annual conference. Friday, November 8, featured a concert by Antonio Rocha, for which R...
Brandon SparsOct 15, 20193 minAre you really doing research?That's what every one of my colleagues at Sonoma Academy is asking me and the two other teachers who are in Maui for a week to work on bu...
Brandon SparsOct 2, 20192 minAn Epic Day!I was so pleased to be able to stay for all eight hours of the storytelling that took place at Cathryn Fairlee's home for the final time ...
Brandon SparsSep 26, 20193 minOur Tongues Danced the Night AwayThe theme was "It Takes Two to Tango," and it led us all over: one-eyed owls, slaughtered pigs, wilderness survival, the October fires in...
Brandon SparsSep 22, 20193 minIt's finally out!Yes, it is finished and available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble Books. Whew! Of course, it wasn't like I was working on this every day, bu...
Brandon SparsSep 21, 20192 minWoodland RevisitedThis time I was the featured teller, which is a role that Jeff Gere played at the last Storyteller's Cafe. What a delightful evening full...
Brandon SparsSep 18, 20194 minPre-Workshop Planning!This year, Coyote Tales will feature a workshop prior to the Story Slam. I have eighteen parents signed up in what is being called a "Mas...