Series 10: Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn: Traditional Storytellers and Their Tales
Scope and Contents
Program Files document expenses, funding, publicity, and research for the project. Research materials include press clippings, photocopies of articles, and book segments about stories and storytelling. This sub-series also includes biographical information about participants and signed permission statements for audio and video recordings. The Audiovisual sub-series includes digital photographs, audio, and video recordings of selected program events. See audiovisual sub-series for a full list.
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn events included:
Festival Storytelling Session: Folk Tales from Guyana and Dominican Republic. Thomas Boyland Park, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, May 7, 2011.
Enchanted Brooklyn: Contemporary Fairy Tale Films. BAMcinematek, May 9, 2011.
Reading, Writing and Hearing Traditional Tales. Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge, May 19, 2011.
Lunchtime Story Swap. Elders Share the Arts, Fort Greene, May 23, 2011.
Changing Skins: Folktales About Gender, Identity and Humanity. Dixon Place Theater, Manhattan, June 3, 2011.
Garifuna Wonder Tales. BIKO, Bushwick, June 10, 2011.
The Tower's Tale: Sacred Story and the Giglio Feast in Italian Williamsburg. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Manhattan, June 22, 2011.
Full Moon Storytelling Night: Folk Tales and Tellers from Guyana. St. Stephen's Church, East Flatbush, June 1, 2011.
Moonlight Stories in the Garden. Prospect Heights Community Farm, June 2, 2011.
The Great Brooklyn Storytelling Event. Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, June 11, 2011.
Stories in the Park. Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park, June 12, 2011.
Historical Note
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn: Traditional Storytellers and Their Tales was a series of eleven public programs and workshops produced by Kay Turner, Folk Arts Director at the Brooklyn Arts Council. The program ran from May-June 2011 and featured Brooklyn storytellers presenting folk tales, fairy tales, ghost stories, tall tales and the legends of saints in parks, libraries and community gardens around the borough.
Sub-series 10.1: Program Files
Invoices and Check Requests, 2011
Funding, Corporate and Foundations, 2010
Funding, NEA, 2011
Publicity, 2011
Events, Contracts and Evaluations, 2011
Enchanted Brooklyn: Contemporary Fairy Tale Films, 2011
Full Moon Storytelling Night, 2011
The Great Brooklyn Storytelling Event, 2011
Traditional Storytellers and Their Tales, 2011
The Tower's Tale: Sacred Story and the Giglio Feast, 2011
Participants, About, 2004, 2011, inclusive
Participants, Permission Statements, 2011
Interview Logs, 2011
Permission Statements with Interview Logs, 2011
Research, Brooklyn Storytellers, 2009-2011, inclusive
Research, Correspondence, 2011
Research, Organizations and Individuals, 2011
Research, Other Projects, 2005-2012, inclusive
Research, Press Clippings, 2007-2013, inclusive
Research, Sources: Abrahams, Roger D, The Complex Relations of Simple Forms, 1981, 2009, inclusive
Research, Sources: Abrahams, Roger D, The Man of Words in the West Indies, 1983
Research, Sources: Eder, Donna, Life Lessons Through Storytelling, 2010
Research, Sources: Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, Speech Play, 1976
Research, Sources: Young, Terrell A., Happily Ever After, 2004
Research, Stories, Misc., 1979
Research, Women and Storytelling, 1991
Sub-series 10.2: Audiovisual
Scope and Contents
Events represented in the Audiovisual sub-series:
Full Moon Storytelling Night: Folk Tales and Tellers from Guyana. St. Stephen's Church, East Flatbush, June 1, 2011.
Moonlight Stories in the Garden. Prospect Heights Community Farm, June 2, 2011.
The Great Brooklyn Storytelling Event. Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, June 11, 2011.
Stories in the Park. Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park, June 12, 2011.
