lecture on storytelling

The Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media and Place cordially
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> > Healing Journey with Kira van Deusen on Friday, November 9th at 2pm in MMaP
> > Gallery (2nd floor, Arts & Culture Centre).
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> > This presentation will explore the ways in which the arts of storytelling
> > and music interrelate with the physical and spiritual landscape, helping
> > shamans, storytellers and the rest of us to cross between worlds.
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> > Kira Van Deusen brings to professional storytelling and music a background
> > which includes a BA in Russian Language and Literature from Cornell
> > University and an MA in Folklore/Ethnography from Antioch University. She
> > has done extensive research with indigenous people in the Russian Far East
> > and Siberia, where she has studied oral storytelling traditions, music, and
> > shamanism with indigenous Turkic and Tungus-language peoples. Kira is
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> > of Raven and the Rock: Storytelling in Chukotka, The Flying Tiger: Women
> > Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur, and Singing Story, Healing Drum:
> > Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia. For more information, see:
> > http://www.kiravan.com/
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> > Date: Friday, 9 November 2007
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> > Time: 2pm-4pm
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> > Place: MMaP Gallery (2nd floor, Arts & Culture Centre)
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