andrealovett

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Andrea invites you into a story!

last update 1/20/2012 calendar 2011-12!
Andrea will be hosting Blue22 Story Slam in Quincy 2/14/12 theme "Stupid cupid"
Tony Khan from WGBH 's Morning Stories was a fabulous co host with massmouth at Club Passim on 1/16

Introduction

Welcome to Massachusetts' Storyteller Andrea Lovett's "storyspace" page !

781 267 9979 or love2tell2@aol.com

Andrea is a story and literacy specialist.
In this space you will find Andrea's storytelling calendar,blogs and storytelling profile.

Andrea's mother often said of Andrea

"she was born talkin an tellin tales".

Andrea has been performing and teaching storytelling professionally since 1992. It has been said her storytelling style is pure magic. From the moment she begins to speak her audiences are caught up in the magic of story. Her tales are told to audiences from 0 to 100. Her repertoire includes over two hundred stories and growing. She has told in venues throughout the United States including Disney World Florida, First Night in Boston, and more recently in Europe at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic , several English pre-schools and at the Royal Crescent Park in Bath ,England. Andrea has taught storytelling workshops/residencies at Tufts University,NEATE Conference, Lesley College, public and private schools and festivals across the country. Andrea is a member of Young Audiences of Massachusetts

program descriptions click on link below:

http://

programdescriptions.blogspot.com/

Andrea's Specialty programs:

Earlychildhood programs:
http://www.andreasearlychildhoodstories.blogspot.com/

Andrea's Historic Programs
http://andrealovettshistoricprograms.blogspot.com/

Dog Tag's
http://dogtags-storyspace.blogspot.com/

Wake up and Smell the Poetry Television Show , Andrea will be a feature 11/19

co-founder of massmouth.com How To Tell A KickButt Story in 5 Min. Workshop Sept. 28th
Andrea is in the line up at
Comedy With Wings

is the hot new place in Boston to see innovative and hilarious female comedy. Come test your material for maximum super-absorbancy or just listen and laugh!
We are located at Bella Luna, 284 Amory Street Jamaica Plain. Third Sunday of every month Sep 2011*-May 2012
*second Sunday in October only
If you would like to perform, please email us your name, bio, description of act, length of performance, and any relevant URLs to comedywithwings@gmail.

Andrea was the Regional Feature at this wonderful Storytelling Festival!

Riverway offers a treat for you, whatever your age. Our weeklong program includes events for children, teens, and families and other events meant just for adults. We have Laughin' Night, Ghost Stories Night, and Our Favorite Stories Night all on tap, among more than 20 other events! Andrea is a featured regional teller from April 7th thru April 10th.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 10/30 6:30pm

Listen to this - The Boston Globe

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Scroll down for program listings and videos

Andrea In The Boston Globe Magazine
Listen to this - The Boston Globe

Through massmouth.com, professional storyteller Andrea Lovett, of Abington, is encouraging folks to tell tales.

Through local story slams, you and massmouth cofounder Norah Dooley have invited the public to tell stories alongside experienced pros. Why? We were looking for a way to reinvigorate storytelling and find new audiences. Story slams seem to appeal to a younger generation. They get it. What they bring is a whole new energy. Everybody can tell a story. This is a chance to get up there and try it out. They’re not rehearsed, they are not really polished, but they are real, and so appealing.

How do story slams compare with poetry slams? At poetry slams there will be cheers and jeers. We don’t have that. We feel the story is part of the person – usually they’re personal stories. We’re a little bit kinder and gentler.

The story slams lead up to The Big MouthOff at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square April 20 at 6pm. What will happen there? We’ll have the first- and second-place winners from the last six months of story slams, and the people’s choice winners. So you’re going to hear the best-of-the-best stories in Boston and in Massachusetts. And audience members picked at random will have a chance to tell a two-minute story in a mini-slam format, so they can be part of it. They won’t be judged, though.

What makes storytelling different from other entertainment? Even if the electricity goes out, we still have our words. Even in the recession, especially now, this is great theater with little cost, and you can be transported to Pamplona with the running of the bulls or the back stoop of an apartment in Queens. If the story is good, you can go anywhere.

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The Lily Pad in Cambridge

Watch the slideshow of the BigMouthOff event. Standing Room Only Show!! Who says storytelling isn't for grown ups too?

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Find more videos like this on massmouth The Power of Story

massmouth is the winner of this years Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award, Thank you !!! Whoo hoo!!

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Don't miss "Spoken Voices"quarterly radio show featuring Andrea's writer's group with Jay O'Callahan

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Spoken Voices Radio Show WATD.com with

Jay O'CallahanWriter's reading their works live. Spoken Voices

..Andrea Performs Stories for Adults at Story Cafe New Bedford!!

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Andrea performing at Story Cafe

Fabulous evening ,kudos to Karen Chace founder of the feast!

"Tales From The Table" part of her series of stories for adults. Growin up is hard to do, especially if your mom sometimes seems to be straight out of I Love Lucy. Strange things continually happened in Andrea's home. Thanksgiving Turkeys rolled down the hill, got attacked by pets, covered in ash --wound up ,painted with food coloring and served to guests, while her Dad beamed, Best darn turkey you ever made! Do anything different? Andrea admits she's inherited some of those rare and bizarre qualities and is proud to share them on stage.

To get in touch with Andrea 781 267 9979 or love2tell2@aol.com

New Pictures

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www.andreasnewpictures.blogspot.com

Overview of Programs

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(for calendar of events scroll down page)

email love2tell2@aol.com

for videos scroll down to bottom of page)

Programs Include the Following;

Quick Overview(For more in depth descriptions of programs, click below
:http://programdescriptions.blogspot.com/)

For Earlychildhood programs
http://www.andreasearlychildhoodstories.blogspot.com/

Nature based stories
Butterflies, rainforests,tales of hibrenation
curriculum based in science
check out my early childhood page for more detail
suggested ages prek-through 3rd grade

Stories of Ecology
Stories of our environment and how
we can work together to protect our home.
All Ages

Folktales From Around the World
Folktales told with an apprecition for
customs,traditions and diversity.
All ages

Seasonal Stories
Stories to suit every season and holiday
All Ages

Historic Stories
CLICK HERE TO VIEW
http://andrealovettshistoricprograms.blogspot.com/

Legends and Myths
Classic stories from around the world
2nd grade and up

Folktales From America's Borders
Stories from Mexico, Canada and United States
All Ages

Heroes and Heroines
Stories of strong role models both young
and old,fictional and non fictional characters.
All Ages

Stories of Immigration
Mary O'Keefe leaves behind family and
the country she loves to find streeets paved with gold.
Grade School

Rainforest Tales
Tales from the worlds rainforests
All Ages

"Dog Tag's" Oral History Programs
Click below for Program Descriptions
http://dogtags-storyspace.blogspot.com/

The Dynamic Dual Andrea Lovett and Bob Reiser's "Tale Catchers"
http://talecatchers.blogspot.com/

Birthday Parties
http://storyspace-birthdayparties.blogspot.com/

NEW!"Tales From The Table", a series of stories for 12 thru Adult

Review of Andrea's first CD:"Folktales From the Forest"Andrea Lovett's, CD, FOLKTALES FROM THE FOREST, crouches and leaps like a tiger. Or a frog. Andrea's stories are full of surprise, charm and fun. In one of her stories, she's joined by Bob Reiser, also one of the funniest storytellers I've every heard. If you and the family are headed somewhere, take Andrea along. love2tell2@aol.com Jay O'Callahan

CALENDAR

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All Schools, Daycares, and private events are unlisted

with the exception of Read Boston's Summer Schedule otherwise (if you wish to preview me at a school please e-mail me and I will be happy to arrange)love2tell2@aol.com

ardner Pilot Program Fridays again for Fall

Winchester,Muraco Schools for the Fall Teaching writing as a second language

Winter Solstice Larz Andersen Park, Brookline Dec 20th Time 4pm

Dec. 17th The Leather 7pm,Peabody, Museum http://www.essexheritage.org/explorers/index.shtml

Dec. 5th Plimoth Plantation Festival Of Trees 11am

November 10th , Spoke Voices(Writer's Reading Their Work) with Jay O'Callahan watd.com

Children's Museum Boston, November 13th 7pm

6:15pm listen live watd.com

November 17th Exeter Cultural Exchange Telling for Adults ,The Process

7pm Exeter,New Hampshire

November 23rd doors open 6:30pm Story Slam Massmouth Kennedys Midtwon, Boston.

November 6th, Cohassett CommunityCenter 10:45am

Three Apples October 4th, 1-3pm Shelburne Farms,Stow

The King Open School,Cambridge October 22nd 6:45pm Hoots and Hollers

MassMouth Big Mouth StorySlam January 11th, 7pm
Kennedy's Midtown,42 Province St. Don't Miss it.

Haley Cafe October 29th Scared to Death Ghost Stories 7:30pm Dade St. Roxbury ,Mass

July 7

Log Pre-school 10am

Bowdoin St. Dorchester

Codman Square Library Dorchester 11:15pm

The Oliver Perry School 1:15pm

South Boston

July8

Labore Center 10am

West Broadway South Boston

Boys and Girls Club 11:15am

1135 Dorchester Ave. Dorchester

Condon Communtiy Center 1:15pm

200 D Street South Boston

July 9th

Yawkey Korbit Kreyal Center 10am

185 Columbia Road Dorchester

Egleston Library 11:15am

2044 Columbus Ave.

Roxbury

Perkins Community Center 1:15pm

155 Talbot Ave.

Dorchester

July 10th

Little People's Playhouse 10am

32 South Fairview St.

Roslindale

George Wright Playground

11:15am

420 West Street, Hyde Park.

Hyde Park Library 1:15pm

35 Harvard Ave.

July14th

Tynan Community Center 10am

650 East 4th Street

South Boston

Tenacity Program 11am

Columbia Rd. Rotary Sotuh Boston

South Boston Boys and Girls Club 12:45pm (2 shows)

230 West 6th Street, South Boston

July 15th

YMCA Kids Stop 10am

1208 VFW PArkway, West Roxbury

WIllow PAth Child Care 11:15am

5-7 VFW Parkway Roslindale

Agassiz Community Center 1:15pm

20 Child Street, Jamaica Plain

July 16th

Roxbury YMCA 10am

285 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Roxbury

Crispus Attucks Children's Center 11:15am

105 Crawford Street, Dorchester

St. Katharine Drexel Parish 1:15pm

1755 Ruggles St. Roxbury

July 17th

LaRonde de Marie Claire 10am

130 River ST.

Mattapn, Mass

Grove Hall Library 11:15am

41 Geneva Ave. , Dorchester

MArshall Communtiy Center 1:15pm

35 Westville Street , Dorchester

August 1st Storytelling Campfire 7pm visitors Center
Myles Standish State Forest
Carver,Mass

August 3rd

JAckson Mann Community Center 10am

500 Cambridge Street, Allston

St. Colimbkille School 11:15pm

McElroy Hall BC Campus

Honan-Allston Library 1:15pm

300 North Harvard, Allston

August 4th

Jefferies Point 10am

425 Summer St. East Boston, Mass

EB YMCA Curtis Guild School 11:15pm

195 Leyden St. East Boston

August 5

Salvation Army Children's Learning Center 10am

26 Wales St. Dorchester, Mass

Zion Learning Center 11:15am

79 Stanton Street, Dorchester

Network Learning Center 1:15pm

530 Warren St., Dorchester

August 6th

Mosaic School 10am

85 Seavers Ave. Jamaica Plain

Connolly Library

433 Center St.

Jamaica Plain

Vine Street Community Center 1:15pm

339 Dudley St., Roxbury

Where I've been!!

June 27th Wompatuck State Park, Hingham 7-8pm campfire

June 17th,Acorn Pre-school Bath, England

May 21 6:30pm Story Book Cove Hanover Mass

Bedtime Storytelling

May 1st 7pm Story Cafe New Bedford Mass"Adult Venue" www.artworksforyou.org

May 10th Lilac Sunday Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass

April vacation Prague,Charles University Czech Republic

April 25th 2pm New England Folk Festival

Mansfield,Mass.

Wompatuck State Park Star Gazing Storytelling 7:45 pm Hingham, Mass.

Burlington Schools District Wide month of March

MEES Conference 2pm

March 4th Holy Cross

Sharing The Fire Conference March 20th -22nd Presenting workshops

December 31st First Night Hines Auditorium 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30pm rm 310

December 6th 11am Festival of the Trees Plimoth Plantation

December 11th Catch some new tellers at Haley House Cafe 7pm Roxbury

December 17th 826 Boston New tellers perform

First Night Boston December 31st Hienz Auditorium www.fisrtnight .com

Gardner Pilot School,Fridays 8:30 -9:30am Allston ,Mass, 08-09

Muraco School Winchester 08-09

Franklin Park Tenant Assc. October-Novemeber

November 5th showcase of Franklin Park Tellers

Greater Quincy Childcare Family Program September 26, 6:30pm

October 18th Halloween Masquerade Newtonville 6:30 (TBA where)

Arnold Arboretum October 26th 12pm

"Safe Kids and Friend" TV Show Rhode Island November Watch for date

Calvin and The Lion With "Bad" breath A Gavin StoryBurner Telling at the ICA Boston

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Andrea telling at Frist Night Boston 2008!

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ORAL HISTORY PROGRAMS
Intergenarational residency
http://dogtags-storyspace.blogspot.com/

DOG TAGS
Program recieved special recognition from the Mass. Cultural Council For Outstanding Program
An Intergenerational Storytelling Program
partnering local veterans with students-A two part program

A) a veteran of foreign of war meets with students and shares his/her stories
B)creative writing venture using storytelling sparks to integrate their story experience with
veteran.

Storytelling Residencies!
Award winning residencies
Andrea works with groups of all
ages to bring forth the stories within.
Her unique style builds students
self confidence , boosts vocabulary and
literacy skills.

Writing residencies
Andrea works with students
in grades three and up
in small groups to develop
creative writing skills.
Her methods are unique and inspire students
love of writing. Teachers are always amazed
to see unispired students suddenly become inspired and enthusiastic writers.

NEW!
TALES FROM THE TABLE
Funny Stories from Andrea's Life!

news articles updated 8/7/08

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Picture In South Boston Times of Citizens Schools Students trained as tellers for

First Night

Boston,(Norah Dooley,Doria Hughes,and Andrea) as story teachers/mentors.

copy and paste link for latest article Mariner Newspaper

http://www.wickedlocal.com/abington/fun/entertainment/x1822593031/Stories-around-the-campfire

July 15-16th 2006 article Click on article for full view

2004
By The Patriot Ledger
Editor’s note: Readers often comment that there should be more good news in the paper. While it’s true that there’s more than enough bad news to go around, on Thursdays on the editorial page we will highlight some of the many good news stories that appear on our pages on a regular basis.

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OUR VIEW: Old-fashioned summer fun
By The Patriot Ledger
Editor’s note: Readers often comment that there should be more good news in the paper. While it’s true that there’s more than enough bad news to go around, on Thursdays on the editorial page we will highlight some of the many good news stories that appear on our pages on a regular basis.One of summer’s joys is that families have time to enjoy the simpler things in life - whether a day at the beach, an overnight in a tent or visiting family in a different state.In summer, life isn’t quite as frenzied as it is when school and after-school activities are in full swing. And youngsters have a chance to explore a low-tech, pre-tech world.The fact is, finding stimulation without the aid of something electronic is good for children’s brains. It helps them use their imaginations more.Andrea Lovett of Abington is at the center of one such activity: story telling. She’s been using songs, dance and puppetry to tell her stories in a variety of settings since 1992, and in summer she tells her stories outdoors. ‘‘Folktales from the Forest’’ is a series Lovett has performed in Abington for 12 years. She talks about caterpillars, butterflies, monkeys and other animals, with stuffed animals as props. But it’s Lovett’s animation that brings the stories to life.The expressions on excited children’s faces at Island Grove Park show how much they enjoy old-fashioned stories, even if they grew up in a Sesame Street world.Lovett’s series continues in Abington through August, with free programs on Aug. 5 at 7 p.m. and on Aug. 16 at 10 a.m. For more information, call 781-871-5892.