norah.dooley
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Norah Dooley aka LaToscaSalta
Brookline,
MA
United States
storyteller, author, educator
massmouth.com
Norah Dooley is a storyteller, critically acclaimed children’ s author and educator , a co-founder of massmouth.com, and a story slam series in Greater Boston. Norah’s widely acclaimed picture book, Everybody Cooks Rice is one of four about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA. She has 6 storytelling CDs and a MEd in Creative Arts in Learning, Middle School. Norah teaches storytelling, performance skills, directs theater and performs in schools, libraries and teacher’s conferences. She featured as storyteller in many Revels Shows the Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Albany NY River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA and at the Clearwater Festival. "I grew up in NYC on Staten Island. It was relatively rural - the lady next door raised chickens-- hundreds of them. When I was 5 years old, our mother cut the cord to our TV and sent us into the wide/wild world to play. We went into the woods as Robin Hood,W.W.II combat soldiers and Knights of the Round Table. Using tree branches to make bows,arrows,guns, swords and scenarios, we played all day, every day. We were geeks"
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Jan 28, 2012
Remember college? Or were you too dazed to remember? Come hear or tell a story about college room mates, food plans, pranks, teachers, libraries, parties, the new things you learned and tried and...
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Jan 24, 2012
On February 7, 2012, storytellers from Boston and beyond will celebrate a milestone:
The 20-year anniversary of Tuesday night storytelling in Cambridge, Mass. The series begun in 1992 by world...
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Dec 23, 2011
Storytelling and Theater MashUp at CST reviewed
Mixing Storytelling and Acting to Create Magic
By Owen Grey
Once upon a time there lived a woman with a gift for stories named Shahrazad...”
We all...
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Dec 5, 2011
This weekend we feature the winners of the Big Mouth Off and the fabulous CCTV Intern, Paula Junn
Do you have a story that saved your life? What story could you tell to save your life? Were you ever...
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Nov 18, 2011
Middle Eastern
Do you have a story that saved your life? What story could you tell to save your life? Were you ever rescued? Did you ever save someone's life or lives ?
NOV 19, DEC 3, and DEC 10 • Workshop Leader:...
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Oct 3, 2011
The First Cambridge Story Slam of the season at Passim @ 47 Palmer Street, Cambridge, MA @ 7:00 pm October 17th. Join cycling "evangelist" Richard Fries and massmouth co-founder Norah Dooley at...
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Sep 2, 2011
Neighborhoods
Lovely late summer morining Thursday Aug 31st, 2011
And I walked from Brookline near Comm Ave. down Brookline Street to Central Square -
First stop was on Boston side at the Cloverfastfood.com truck...
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Apr 24, 2011
When high school students Maho at Lynn Classical High School (who is
orginally from Bosnia) or Sandy at Boston Latin Academy from Mattapan
told their stories the air was taught with the energy and...
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Apr 24, 2011
Please listen to Maho's story...
http://youtu.be/EYSHNfl04hQ
This is just one of many stories that shows why we created StoriesLive
program. And there is a story behind this story too - one of Maho's...
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Mar 10, 2011
Gus Rancatore and I will tell stories about the inevitable. Sunday. Don't miss this, last slam of the season in Cambridge, Sunday, 6PM doors open at 5:30PM.
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Jan 12, 2011
Tha audience participated in a short "workshop "and then shared their stories too
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Jan 10, 2011
SubText - JAN 8th 2011
5 massmouth.com tellers told 5, five minute (or less) stories, that were real or imagined but all inspired by themes in the play HYSTERIA by Terry Johnson
"Freudian Slip: Did I...
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