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’m delighted to announce the workshop Voz Narrativa to be held in Spanish at the Luciérnaga Universitaria in the beautiful countryside of Soriano, Uruguay July 23-24, 2022. Join me, Storytime Yoga Founder Sydney Solis; Educator, Yoga Teacher and Publisher Malia Ferrer; Storyteller [...]
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 [...]
Now Begins Yoga atha yoga anushasanam “Now begins yoga.”— Yoga Sutra 1.1 There is a beginning and an end to everything, but they are also one and the same. That is the paradox of being and living in duality. It’s 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 [...]
The Power of the Image in Education “The soul speaks in an image.”— Aristotle “Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.”— Immanuel Kant “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”—Albert Einstein “The storyteller around the fire— the original Virtual Reality!” — Sydney Solis [...]
