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Ben Tucker Zoom Visits
The Humanities 3 class with Brandon was treated to a zoom visit from author and storyteller Ben Tucker, who grew up in Jim Crow South and...

Brandon Spars
Mar 18, 20213 min read


A Visit from Ms. Sheila
As I write this, I am not quite over her presence. She just left the Zoom room, and I just ended class by telling the eleventh graders...

Brandon Spars
Jan 29, 20215 min read


2020 Blowout
What 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 Spars
Jan 4, 20212 min read


Six Feet Apart Year End Celebration
What 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 Spars
Dec 6, 20202 min read


Tellabration!
November is Tellabration! month, and there are online events scheduled all over the nation. Tuesday, November 10 was a joint concert by...

Brandon Spars
Nov 25, 20203 min read


Young Coyote Tales
Last Wednesday, October 21, was the inaugural performance of the Alumni Edition of Coyote Tales. Nine Sonoma Academy alumni submitted...

Brandon Spars
Oct 24, 20203 min read


Banter on the Bonkers Brit
Claire Hennessy, in addition to running Six Feet Apart Productions, is also the host of a blog called The Bonkers Brit. Six Feet Apart...

Brandon Spars
Oct 10, 20202 min read


Rangda 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...

Brandon Spars
Aug 16, 20203 min read


Summer Stories
Two great storytelling events went virtual: the National Storytelling Network Conference and the San Francisco Free Folk Festival on June...

Brandon Spars
Jun 24, 20203 min read


Zooming 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...

Brandon Spars
Apr 27, 20204 min read


Building on the Potential
I 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 Spars
Mar 25, 20205 min read


A Potential Beginning
I 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...

Brandon Spars
Mar 9, 20204 min read


The 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 Spars
Jan 6, 20203 min read


The Birth of A New Storyteller
Saturday, November 23 was TELLABRATION!™ , which is a storytelling event celebrated in nine different countries and in forty states in...

Brandon Spars
Nov 26, 20193 min read


Learning 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...

Brandon Spars
Nov 26, 20194 min read


Storytelling 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...

Brandon Spars
Nov 11, 20193 min read


Are 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...

Brandon Spars
Oct 15, 20193 min read


An 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 Spars
Oct 2, 20192 min read


Our Tongues Danced the Night Away
The 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 Spars
Sep 26, 20193 min read


It'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,...

Brandon Spars
Sep 22, 20193 min read
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