Brandon Spars
Rangda is Out!
All my life I have wanted to put together a book about the Balinese deity, Rangda. She first captured my imagination more than thirty...
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Brandon Spars
Jun 24, 20203 min read
Summer Stories
Two great storytelling events went virtual: the National Storytelling Network Conference and the San Francisco Free Folk Festival on June...
Brandon Spars
Apr 27, 20204 min read
Zooming Through Stories!
Yesterday I had the honor of opening for Bil Lepp on Sunday Stories, a weekly event from Six Feet Apart Productions. Needless to say I...
Brandon Spars
Mar 25, 20205 min read
Building on the Potential
I was met with good news when I learned that the Live to Tell Series (two books so far) was awarded with Honors from Storytelling World....
Brandon Spars
Mar 9, 20204 min read
A Potential Beginning
I have been quietly working on a longer performance, and I say quietly because I have not performed in a month or two. But this Spring...
Brandon Spars
Jan 6, 20203 min read
The Death of an Inspiring Man
On Sunday, December 8 at 4 pm in Bali, Indonesia, my father-in-law, Ketut Rutus Daryana, passed away. He was taken into the hospital in a...
Brandon Spars
Nov 26, 20193 min read
The Birth of A New Storyteller
Saturday, November 23 was TELLABRATION!™ , which is a storytelling event celebrated in nine different countries and in forty states in...
Brandon Spars
Nov 26, 20194 min read
Learning Another Side of Storytelling
For the past two years I have been co-teaching a class called Authentic Voices with the Sound Engineer at our school. My responsibility...
Brandon Spars
Nov 11, 20193 min read
Storytelling Month is Here!
November was kicked off this weekend with the SAC annual conference. Friday, November 8, featured a concert by Antonio Rocha, for which...
Brandon Spars
Oct 15, 20193 min read
Are you really doing research?
That's what every one of my colleagues at Sonoma Academy is asking me and the two other teachers who are in Maui for a week to work on...
Brandon Spars
Oct 2, 20192 min read
An Epic Day!
I was so pleased to be able to stay for all eight hours of the storytelling that took place at Cathryn Fairlee's home for the final time...
Brandon Spars
Sep 26, 20193 min read
Our Tongues Danced the Night Away
The theme was "It Takes Two to Tango," and it led us all over: one-eyed owls, slaughtered pigs, wilderness survival, the October fires in...
Brandon Spars
Sep 21, 20193 min read
It's finally out!
Yes, it is finished and available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble Books. Whew! Of course, it wasn't like I was working on this every day,...
Brandon Spars
Sep 20, 20192 min read
Woodland Revisited
This time I was the featured teller, which is a role that Jeff Gere played at the last Storyteller's Cafe. What a delightful evening full...
Brandon Spars
Sep 18, 20194 min read
Pre-Workshop Planning!
This year, Coyote Tales will feature a workshop prior to the Story Slam. I have eighteen parents signed up in what is being called a...
Brandon Spars
Jul 30, 20194 min read
A Weekend of Story
The National Storytelling Network Summit, which was held in Fremont this year, was a wonderful way to pass the weekend. I headed down...
Brandon Spars
Jul 23, 20193 min read
Funny Stories at Folktale Winery & Vineyards
They were all true stories, but there was definitely magic, which would have made the name Fairytale Winery more appropriate for the...
Brandon Spars
Jul 15, 20193 min read
Packed house at Griffo Distillery's "Celebrations!"
We weren't in the regular performance space, but we were provided a pretty large storage room. In spite of that, the audience packed...
Brandon Spars
Jun 24, 20194 min read
Live to Tell Again (Part I)
Writing a book, even a small one, is such a humbling but exhilarating process. For me, it is always easier and much more fun to be...
Brandon Spars
Jun 4, 20191 min read
A Gem of a Gem!
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of sharing a stage with Barbara Clark, who was nominated as this year's Regional Gem of California....
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