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Sandy Schuman“Creating Stories Since 1951” |
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There is always another side to the story. |
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My Father was a storyteller. It was his everyday way of communicating important values and ideas. One of his favorite sayings was, “There is always another side to the story.” I followed his example, but didn’t realize it until several years ago. After leading a three-day training program on group facilitation at the Pentagon, I read the attendee’s evaluation forms. In response to the question, “What did you like best about the program?” several people responded, “Sandy’s stories.” I didn’t understand what they were talking about so I asked my co-trainer. He looked at me, puzzled, and said, “Don’t you remember? You told that story about the Adirondack conference where they insisted they couldn’t agree on anything, and the one about the board meeting where one of the directors came in late wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and a hangover, and the time the chairman threw you out of the meeting …” Indeed, I had told many stories. They just came naturally. Since then I’ve told stories for audiences large and small — personal adventures, historical sagas, folk tales, tall tales, stories in the Jewish storytelling tradition, and stories about songs (with some singing and musical accompaniment, of course). Take a look at what I have to offer, get in touch, and invite me to tell you a story.
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Sandy Schuman brings folk tales and historical sagas to life (“Some of our folklore is truly unbelievable, some of our history is even more so!”) and reveals the little-known stories behind some of our best-known songs. He tells personal adventures and stories in the Jewish storytelling tradition. He plays his theme song on a Jew’s harp. When you hear him play the guitar and sing, you’ll know why he calls himself a storyteller.
He is a winner of the Susquehanna Folk Festival Liars Contest and the St. Louis Jewish Storytelling Contest and has been featured at The Northeast Storytelling Conference, Riverway Storytelling Festival, Caffè Lena, Proctors, Tellabration, and Limmud Boston.
His stories and related articles have been published in 100 Lives, Distressing Damsels, Facilitating with Stories, Family: Poetry about Family from Poets Around the World, Memoir Magazine, New Mitzvah Stories, Peri Etz Yitzhak: Fruit of Yitzhak's Tree, Stone Canoe, Stonecrop Review, Stories We Tell, Story Club Magazine, Storytelling Magazine, Tablet, The Ethicist, the Jewish Literary Journal, The Story Cookbook, Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore, in his books, Welcome to Chelm’s Pond and A Rabbi, a Prophet, and a King Walk into a Bar, and on his blog, Another Side to the Story.
Sandy is a member of the Story Circle of the Capital District, Northeast Storytelling, National Storytelling Network, and Jewish Storytelling Coalition.
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These are customizable flyers for many of my programs. You can download and customize these flyers for your use or, if you prefer, I will customize them for you.
For insights into Sandy’s approach to storytelling, read Sandy’s Seven Sagacious Storytelling Sayings.
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