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      • 37: Tightrope: Performing Tension
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      • 29: The Creative Issue
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      • 31: Metamorphoses: Through the Lenses of Translation & Adaptation
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      • 36: Under the Spotlight
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      • 14: Invisible Lines: Performing Borders and Liminal Space
      • 15: Civic Artistry
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      • 17: Adrift: Rootlessness on Repeat
      • 18: Incognito
      • 19: The Performance of Yes: On Tacit & Explicit Agreement
      • 20: Rites: On Performing the Inexplicable
      • 21: The Method of Merriment
      • 22: Groupthink: Performance of A Collective
      • 23: Utopias
      • 24: For The Ages: On Growing Up
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      • 09: An Act of Chaos
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Issue.11: Storytelling & Shared Illusions: How Stories Shape Our World
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The Storytelling Industrial Complex

  • Posted on January 27, 2017April 4, 2019
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JULIE RUBIN Matt has been the roaming the streets of Los Angeles for the past 3 months. Sometimes he has nothing to eat and scours trash cans for scraps. Sometimes…
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Interview with Hollen Reischer

  • Posted on January 27, 2017April 4, 2019
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NATALIE GALLAGHER In this issue we chat with Hollen Reischer, a second-year graduate student in Northwestern University’s psychology department, working with narrative researcher Dan McAdams. Recently, she’s been focusing her…
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Oral Aural Traditions

  • Posted on January 27, 2017April 4, 2019
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NATALIE GALLAGHER & SWEDIAN LIE Classically speaking, storytelling is a distinctly oral tradition: the passage of a narrative from one person to another via speaking out loud. This practice appears…
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How We Tell Stories

  • Posted on January 27, 2017April 4, 2019
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edited by KELLEY KIDD This month — in keeping with our storytelling theme— we asked three writers to about their process of storytelling. Each of our writers also wrote three compelling,…
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Capturing the Fall: A Conversation with Ameera Conrad on Contemporary Storytelling in “Post-Apartheid-Apartheid South Africa”

  • Posted on January 27, 2017April 4, 2019
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KYLÉ PIENAAR In March 2015, students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) demanded the removal of the Cecil John Rhodes statue that had been a focal point on campus…
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Tell Us A Story

  • Posted on January 27, 2017April 4, 2019
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edited by KELLEY KIDD This month — in keeping with our storytelling theme— we asked three writers to tell us a story. We were delighted to receive back three compelling, unique…
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Storytelling & Shared Illusions: How Stories Shape Our World

  • Posted on January 27, 2017April 4, 2019
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In this issue of SixByEight Press, we’re exploring how we use storytelling to construct and make sense of our world through the shaping of individuals, self-image, and art. We’re also…
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