World Kamishibai Day is December 7. People all over the world will tell a kamishibai story for world peace. I participated in the first World Kamishibai Day in Tokyo in 2018, sponsored by The International Kamishibai Association of Japan. For the Japanese [...]
I taught English as a Second Language using kamishibai at a public high school in Buenos Aires August 30, along with telling a kamishibai about the atomic bombing of Japan in Spanish. Angellini High School 15 Spanish Literature Teacher Bárbara Jelen invited me. [...]
Feeling our hearts at a Storytime Yoga class in Denver 2007. One of my main motivations in teaching Storytime Yoga Kamishibai for Peace is to help children feel and be in their bodies. As technology does more and more for [...]
Tree Pose for Kids Yoga Tree pose, vrksasana, is a fun, basic and excellent balance pose for kids. You can add some variations in tree stories and yoga with storytelling for education to have even more fun. Father Stefano Cartabia took a [...]
Malia Ferrer cuenta Kamishibai en casa a su nietos. I didn’t grow up with extended family around. I grew up in one of the first boxy subdivisions carved out of the cornfields of East Boulder, Colorado. There were no buses [...]
Malia Ferrer and I presented another Kamishibai for Peace with creative writing workshop recently at the San José obrador Catholic Church in Rodó, Uruguay. We presented to two groups of children’s catechism classes. The morning was with younger children, and the afternoon [...]
I attended a day of Malia Ferrer’s ongoing kids yoga teacher training during our Montevideo weekend. I assisted with a storytelling component and presented how to use images and kamishibai in kids yoga classes or in the school classroom, library or home [...]
Oral Stories Are Yoga Because They Develop Concentration More than 50 high-energy and loud fourth-graders assembled in the cafeteria for Malia Ferrer and I’s Kamishibai for Peace, meditation and creative writing session.We had travelled to a school on the margins of Montevideo. It [...]
Lafcadio Hearn and Japanese Culture Greek Educator and Publisher Agatha Rodi gave me the great pleasure to present some kamishibai Japanese paper theatre via video for her young creative writing students. It was part of the “Lefkadi Hern Days” Festival June 23 at the [...]
Open Book Libraries in Cambodia Sydney Solis outside Open Book Library in Phenom Phen, Cambodia. With Catherine Cousins. I met the amazing Catherine Cousins the first time I attended the International Kamishibai Association’s (IKAJA) Kamishibai for Peace seminar in Tokyo [...]
