11.15.2008 Saturday: Posting New Storyteller Amphitheater

Picture of: Dustin and I messing around for the camera backstage at last month's Mesa Storytelling Festival.

Today I: ran my eldest daughter to work at 5am- ouch; ran amok going to the postal facility servicing my neighborhood; posted the Storyteller.net Amphitheater with audio, transcript, pictures from the 2008 Mesa Storytelling Festival; worked on new blog postings; moved said daughter from work to school to home; cooked dinner for daughters who remain home with me while wife and other daughter camp out in northern Arizona; photo credit to Mark Goldstein.
::C2008. Picture blog for storyteller Sean Buvala ( www.seantells.com). My written blog is at www.seanblogs.com::

10.29.2008 Wednesday: Updating Things

Picture of: me, interpreted as a "South Park" character (he's too skinny, tho). Pic courtesy of this website. My cellphone is missing, so I had to use something else today for the pic.

Today I: paid the co-pay and ordered my replacement phone from the insurance company; updated a number of directory pages at storyteller.net with the CD's of several tellers; got a nice Email from Antonio Sacre reading, "It was such an honor to perform with you..." from the Mesa Storytelling Festival; secured rental car for this weekend's engagements; talked with sponsor for Thursday night's storytelling show; twittered; was felled for a few hours by a fibro migraine; worked on a few audio and video files for publication on Friday; set up an appointment with a storytelling-coaching client for next week; post officed; traced down some order problems from the old store.

::C2008. Picture blog for storyteller Sean Buvala ( www.seantells.com). My written blog is at www.seanblogs.com::

10.27.2008 Monday: Prepping Files

Picture of: me holding the sponsors sign at the "Adults Only" show at the Mesa Storytelling Festival (MSF) this last weekend. Thanks again to Mark Goldstein for photo.

Today I: worked on audio and video files from the MSF-which should be posted Tuesday or Wednesday; post officed; banked; ate lunch with daughters #1 and #4; evaluated some promo materials; updated contacts database of my storytelling friends, customers and clients; read one blog another posted about the MSF; yet another blog here; read another blog posted by another teller from the NSF; had dinner out with my wife.

::C2008. Picture blog for storyteller Sean Buvala ( www.seantells.com). My written blog is at www.seanblogs.com::

10.25.2008 Saturday: Brava, Bravo For MSF

Picture of: last night's tellers in the "From the Edge" adult storytelling concert at the Mesa Storytelling Festival. From left, there is Kindra Gayle, Antonio Sacre, Harriet Cole and me.

Today I: whew, I am really worn out. Great day MC'ing events for other tellers; doing a telling segment for a 20 minute gig at the outdoor "come and see" tent; dinner meal with good friend Elly; closing concert where Elly, I and Mrs. Davis sat giggling on and off as the evening progressed; large crowd for closing concert and I am surprised at the number of adolescent families that are in attendance; long drive home- gotta call it quits for tonight. Mesa Storytelling Festival is a winner, kidz; posted thoughts from day 1 and 2 at this link; goodnight- more for you tomorrow including audio interviews and video clips. (Pic credit again to my friend Mark Goldstein.)

::C2008. Picture blog for storyteller Sean Buvala ( www.seantells.com). My written blog is at www.seanblogs.com::

10.24.2008 Friday: World Class Happenings

Picture of: Balcony level pic of 1500 school kids gathering for the Mesa Storytelling Festival today. Three-levels of seating in this theater, kids do *great* job as audience.

Today I: ate hotel breakfast, cleaned up and checked out; participated in world-class school show with 1.5K kids; MC'd event; coached a teller on what they might present at the rest of this festival; journeyed home to clean up and regroup for evening event; talked with my wife about how much I was affected by the excellent events of the last 24 hours; got back in time for evening concert- got to be audience for a while; told and MC'd for "adults only" storytelling late-night concert; home to wash clothes and catch a few winks before big day at festival on Saturday; wrote some random thoughts about last two days while they are in memory- will post later.

::C2008. Picture blog for storyteller Sean Buvala ( www.seantells.com). My written blog is at www.seanblogs.com::

10.23.2008 Thursday: Mesa Storytelling Festival

Picture of: the program, listing all the tellers, for the Mesa Storytelling Festival- which began today.

Today I: packed up for my overnight in Mesa; made the drive across the metro area; listened to (and was the MC for part of) sessions of storytellers Sandy Oglesby, Sheila Kay Adams, Kala Jojo and Shannon Pauly tell for a small (and well behaved) group of school children; shared lunch with several tellers in the green room at the Mesa Arts Center; checked into my hotel; worked more on my story for the "Best of the West" concert; started a twitter stream for photos from the festival; participated in the evening concert with my new version of "Beauty and Beast"; back to hotel and writing you this note. Looking forward to more participation on Friday.

::C2008. Picture blog for storyteller Sean Buvala ( www.seantells.com). My written blog is at www.seanblogs.com::

10.22.2008 Wednesday: Prepping for Mesa Storytelling

Picture of: me and Marilyn at the storytellers' welcoming reception for the Mesa Storytelling Festival. Not sure what we we are doing here in this picture, maybe something scary?

Today I: picked up the rental car; made hotel reservations in Mesa for Thursday; delivered my CD's to the consignment shop at the Mesa Arts Center- nice joint- friendly staff; kept on flaring; made the far-away drive to the reception in Gilbert with staff, volunteers, sponsors and storytellers for the Festival which kicks off on Thursday; talked through my newest version of B&B over and over again in my 45 minute drive home; photo by Mark Goldstein, who in addition to being a fine human being in his own right, is the husband of the MSF director, Liz Warren.




::C2008. Picture blog for storyteller Sean Buvala ( www.seantells.com). My written blog is at www.seanblogs.com::

10.21.2008 Tuesday: Did the -ed Things

Picture of: my fortune cookie at lunch knowing what I would do the rest of the day.

Today I: post officed; banked; lunched; updated; cleared; prepared stories for the Mesa Storytelling Festival; twittered;
flared.



::C2008. Picture blog for storyteller Sean Buvala ( www.seantells.com). My written blog is at www.seanblogs.com::