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HomeMy WebLinkAbout120324 - Mythsinger CREATION MYTHS 12_28 - tickets now available!ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. Hallo hallo friends, Make your plans now to join us in the festive week between year-end and new year’s. We have one more Mythsinger StoryNight for 2024... It's an important time to be together in our international community as we gather round the virtual hearth. We'd love to see you! WHEN: Saturday, December 28th from 1-3pm Pacific Time WHAT: 3rd annual Creation Myths for the Turning of the New Year StoryNight Community Gathering WHO: Judith-Kate Friedman and Audrey di Mola, your hosts-- and you! 🔥🔥🔥 RSVP ON EVENTBRITE <http://bit.ly/creationmyths2024> ! and invite a friend :) 🔥🔥🔥 The Zoom link will be sent to you upon registration. Tickets are offered on a DONATION basis: $5-$45 pay as you wish, pay as you can. All funds contributed will benefit the continued work of the Mythsinger Legacy Project– supporting us to continue our quarterly StoryNights and more– throughout 2025. Thank you for your support! 🔥🔥🔥 ABOUT THE EVENT: As always, we invite you to partake and add your voice to the magic that happens when we join together around the virtual hearth to share music, hear master mythteller and beloved teacher Daniel Deardorff beam in from the archives, and “feed the stories” and the mythic experience which so deeply feeds us. We meet on Zoom, blending ancient tales and 21st century technologies in the Oral Tradition. After hearing Daniel's and Judith-Kate’s original music and creating a sacred circle, we follow Daniel into the StoryHut (via video) and witness as he calls fire in the traditional manner with flint and steel and sings about the tradition of calling, and tending, fire. This season’s StoryNight stories are a trio of Creation tales which Daniel told at the turning of one year into the next. Three myths from very different traditions: one Norse, one Sumerian, and one from the Toba people of South America. In this soulful time we'll explore together, opening our imaginations and collective intelligence to discover what the ideas in each story, and the associativity between cultures, say to each other and to us. In this time of so many unknowns, we turn to the old stories for a sense of what endures over time. For the old stories hold medicine, and in traditional lore are understood, as mythologist Sean Kane has it, to be "the voice of the earth herself, speaking through people." 🔥🔥🔥 ABOUT DANIEL DEARDORFF, MYTHSINGER: Mythologist Martin Shaw says of his longtime friend and collaborator: “Daniel Deardorff was the greatest storyteller I ever saw… a Taliesin moving between hawk, salmon, and grain of wheat. It’s breathlessly exciting, what he is pointing towards.” Daniel Deardorff was a "Singer" in the old sense: musician, storyteller, mythologist, and maker of ritual, a composer, performing artist, independent scholar of myth, author, and survivor of paralytic polio. In his mythtelling, he accompanies himself on djembe drum and invites us to find our own lives in the old stories. A survivor of childhood polio and resulting paraplegia, he used a wheelchair for most of his sixty-seven years; his lived experience of “otherness” gave him a perspective that deeply informed his views on myth. Learn more about Daniel at mythsingerlegacy.org <https://mythsingerlegacy.org/about-daniel-deardorff> . If you’ve joined us around the Zoom hearth, you know that the potency of what Daniel delivered in person, and his presence, when well-captured on audio and video, held in a sacred circle, truly conveys the essence of what he hoped we'd receive from him for generations. If you never got to meet Danny in his lifetime, it’s truly not too late. Those who knew him well, and those meeting him for the first time through these events, speak to the power of his presence as an ongoing gift. 🔥🔥🔥 ABOUT THE MYTHSINGER LEGACY PROJECT: Daniel Deardorff left a great many recordings and teachings when he flew “out of this story and into the next” in 2019. The Mythsinger Legacy Project (MLP) is honored and grateful to carry on his legacy so we can access his guidance, love and wisdom. We work toward fulfilling his vision and mission– to restore the wisdom of myth to culture and community. MLP creates year-round experiential programs and contexts that bring together a growing international community of artists and misfits of all ages, cultures, and abilities. We who gather share a common purpose or conundrum: to acknowledge, honor, and ultimately welcome the Other in society and in ourselves. We expand access as much as we can so that everyone can hear the “old stories” (ancient myths) which Deardorff carried, in formats that catalyze healing. MLP also proudly represents Daniel's classic text, The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche <https://innertraditions.com/the-other-within> , published in a posthumous, expanded, 3rd edition (Inner Traditions, 2022, distributed internationally by Simon and Schuster). Coming up in 2025, we'll be working on archiving and making accessible Daniel's unpublished recordings and related ephemera. Learn more about this project and how you can support it at www.mythsingerlegacy.com/the-mythsinger-legacy-collection <http://www.mythsingerlegacy.com/the-mythsinger-legacy-collection> . MLP operates as an independent charitable organization in WA state and is, for national and global projects, a fiscal sponsee of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit arts organization. Learn more at mythsingerlegacy.org <http://mythsingerlegacy.org> . 🔥🔥🔥 We wish you and yours much joy as the year turns. And we look forward to seeing you soon! With love and gratitude, Judith-Kate + Audrey for the Mythsinger Legacy Project P.S. Why is this Mythtelling event so unique?? Currently, Daniel's archival stories are rarely heard or distributed on the internet. This live StoryNight experience is only offered 4x a year. 🔥🔥🔥 RSVP ON EVENTBRITE <http://bit.ly/creationmyths2024> ! and invite a friend :) 🔥🔥🔥 P.P.S. This time of year we especially invite your support to help us plan and deeply seed the fertile future of Mythsinger's programs for 2025. If you're in a position to make a contribution of funds or in-kind services, we'd be most grateful! Please see the attached letter for details about our "36 Days of Wonder" and "$36K x2" appeal happening now through January 1st. ♥️ Donate here: mightycause.com/mythsinger-legacy-project <http://mightycause.com/mythsinger-legacy-project> or via postal mail to: Mythsinger Legacy Project, 2023 E. Sims Way #271, Port Townsend, WA, 98368 THANK YOU! You're receiving this email as a subscriber or past attendee at events of the Mythsinger Legacy Project, Songwriting Works, or Judith-Kate Friedman. To unsubscribe, reply to this email. And to be in touch, write to us! We'll answer. :) --- mythsingerlegacy.org <http://mythsingerlegacy.org/the-other-within> mythsingerlegacy linktree <https://linktr.ee/mythsingerlegacy> purchase the book through the publisher, Inner Traditions <http://innertraditions.com/the-other-within> "A myth is a story that tells a sacred truth without the use of facts." – Daniel Deardorff The Mythsinger Legacy Project is fiscally-sponsored by Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, a 501c3 (charitable) arts and learning organization.