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Kaleidoscope Storytellers and FLYP 2006
Free
sampler for Central Florida library systems
Help with publicity and story crafts
provided to libraries
Save dollar$
with the buddy system
Some
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click the linked titles listed above.
Library shows from past summers are also available. Click here
for past library shows.
Check our calendar
of public appearances to see if we're going to be performing
near you this summer.
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Welcome to the Kaleidoscope Story Cafe!
We've got a fun summer tour planned: The Kaleidoscope Story Cafe. In keeping with the FLYP 2006 theme, Tiger, Alligator and other puppet partners will help the two Story Chefs serve a pot full of fun, action-packed stories. Besides sharing onstage time in Kaleidoscope's very participatory tales, volunteers from the audience will help choose the stories by fishing items out of the "pot of stories."
It looks like everyone's in danger of appearing on the menu at the Kaleidoscope Story Cafe!
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Kaleidoscope
Storytellers will offer Central Florida library systems who are
not familiar with their work a chance to preview this summer's
tour. "We are former children's librarians and we know what's
involved in planning a summer program," Deer says. "For
that reason, we present free sample programs, fifteen
to twenty minutes long, at system-wide meetings in Central Florida."
Library systems interested in booking a free "Kaleidoscope
Sampler" should contact us
as soon as possible. Go to our Public
Performances page to see if we might be doing a show near
you soon, and to check out which libraries have already booked
us for this summer.
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Kaleidoscope publicity packs can help libraries pack 'em in: Fill-in-the-blank press releases and 8½"x11" mini-posters are part of the publicity packs e-mailed to libraries booking Kaleidoscope shows. This summer's poster is shown above with the description of the program. Full-color masters can be e-mailed to your library in Adobe Acrobat pdf format for our special FLYP 2006 "Kaleidoscope Story Cafe" theme or for any past FLYP theme. Starting with 2006 we are also posting the Adobe Acrobat pdf file of our poster here for you to download directly.
One section of this website is devoted to how-to-do-it information
about activities and crafts designed to follow a storytelling
program. Masters of printed versions are provided on request
to sponsoring libraries before or on the day of one of our shows.
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Kaleidoscope programs
are designed to be affordable, but they cost even less when you
book several within a system or set up a series for your library.
For details, see the section on Kaleidoscope
Storytellers and your budget or contact
us for a custom price quote. And remember that you qualify
for a free Kaleidoscope Sampler
if your library system is located in Central Florida and you
haven't hired us before.
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Some
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A
scene from FLYP 2000 tour
Young audience members at Flagler County Public Library enjoyed
“painting” a new coat on trickster Hyena. Puppets,
audience participation, and the creative interpretation of folktales
are the hallmarks of the Kaleidoscope Storytellers. (Photo courtesy
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The whole audience
plays the part of the echo in Lion and Rabbit, helping
Rabbit outwit a hungry Lion. (The photo below shows some of the
puppet action that enlivens this tale. Rabbit and Lion will both
be starring in a number of other tales this summer.)
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The poor woman
in It Could Always Be Worse is driven to distraction by
her family’s foibles, but are things really as bad as she
believes? Audience participation enlivens this dramatized East
European story. (Storytellers Terry and Suzie are acting out
two of the parts in the photo below. Creative dramatics and audience
participation play a part in many Kaleidoscope stories.)
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In Fox and
Tiger, Fox finds a way to save herself and win the respect
of a hungry tiger. In addition to the storytellers and volunteers
from the audience, the two furry puppet partners shown below
dramatize this story. (Watch for these two puppet characters
acting out more traditional stories this summer!)
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Alligator (masterfully
played by the five-foot-long puppet pictured below) meets Trouble
and lives to repent his foolishness in this pourquoi tale that
explains why the alligator's skin is dark and bumpy. (Alligator
pops up in a number of other tales, some of them with his nemesis
— Monkey.)
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