MYTHSINGER MARCH 2024 STORYNIGHT - AFTERNOON SESSION - Register here
On Wednesday, Odin’s Day, March 27th at 11-1pm Pacific Time we’ll gather round the virtual hearth, coast to coast and around the world, to be together and savor the warmth of our first Mythsinger StoryNight of 2024. We carry on the custom of Daniel Deardorff, beloved mythsinger, master teller, and teacher, to share music and centering with Judith-Kate Friedman, songwriter, story-carrier, and Daniel's partner for many years.
One of the ancient stories will be told....with live music in the mythic mix.... You are invited and welcome!!
Gather with us!!
Register Early to Reserve you Space via Eventbrite. You'll receive the Zoom link upon registration.
In a time like this.... just across the threshold of Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, we call in our international community to warm ourselves around the Zoom hearth.
Mythsinger Legacy Project has been holding space for these quarterly StoryNights featuring Daniel's storytelling and music since the beginning of 2022. We thank YOU for growing our community with such beauty and depth, around Daniel's guidance, love, humor, and teachings.
ABOUT THE EVENT — What is this experience like?
With Zoom as our magical international living room, cozy den, and amazing crossroads we gather: like pollinators and sleepy bears of all kinds– mythtellers, song-lovers, listeners, writers, dreamers, young ones and elders. We mingle, much as we would in the shadowy circle of the storyhut. And we follow Daniel (via video) into the hut as he calls fire in the old way, with flint and steel, and sings about carrying fire. As we honor this sacred space, we're then ready to receive the wisdom of one of the ancient myths he so lovingly carried. Following the story that has fed us, we "feed" the story with gratitude, reflections, and deep conversation. Judith-Kate, Steward of the Mythsinger Legacy Project, is our host and will sprinkle a song or two into the mythic mix. We welcome you to join this community fire circle– where, as mythologist Sean Kane says: “the heart of the hearer impacts the heart of the teller and vice versa.”
We look forward to your presence!
Please feel free to share this with good friends or (discerningly) on social media!
When you register, know that your donations support the continuance of this quarterly online community StoryNight tradition and other programs of the Mythsinger Legacy Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation.
Who was Daniel Deardorff? And what is the Mythsinger Legacy Project?
Daniel Deardorff was a "Singer" in the old sense: musician, storyteller, mythologist and maker of ritual. A composer, performing artist, independent scholar of myth, and author. In his mythtelling he accompanies himself on conga drum and invites us to find our own lives in the old myths. As story, poetry, and song inform each other, worlds align, transporting us to the roots of creation while opening hearts, minds, and souls. Through this experience we discover and explore the generative paradoxes of loss and sacrifice, cunning and grace, tradition and uncertainty, belonging and otherness.
If you knew Danny, or his mythtelling or book, The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture & Psyche, you know his way with a story. If you’ve not yet experienced him, it’s truly not too late. StoryNight participants who knew him well, and those meeting him for the first time through these recordings, attest to the power of his presence as an ongoing gift.
When Daniel flew “out of this story and into the next” in 2019, he left us a great many recordings, teachings, and ways for us to continue to access his guidance, love and wisdom. The Mythsinger Legacy Project is honored and grateful to carry on his legacy.
For a taste of StoryNight and Daniel Deardorff's work, watch the video Mythsinger Voices- Feeding the Storyteller
featuring reflections from StoryNight attendees, Martin Shaw, and Quanita Roberson.
For info about Judith-Kate Friedman's music and multi-modal projects, visit her website at alivenessthrougharts.net
LOGISTICS:
* This event will also be held in the evening (6-8pm Pacific Time). The same story is offered at two different times to accommodate StoryNight friends in different time zones. To attend the evening session, click here.
* Upon registering, you will receive the Zoom link. (If you don't receive it, email mythsingerlegacy [at] gmail [dot] com and we'd be happy to help.)
* This event will be recorded and a replay made available to those who register.
* Thank you for being a part of our community. Your donations directly support community StoryNights and other programs of the Mythsinger Legacy Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation (501c3).
