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'Salmonpeople' storyteller visits coast
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 | No comments posted.
Storyteller Peter Donaldson brings his hit, one-man touring show, “Salmonpeople” to Bandon and Florence this week.
Known as the Johnny Appleseed of Salmon Nation, Donaldson’s campaign is based on people’s ancestral relationship to salmon. He is a master storyteller, educational consultant, and innovative facilitator, with 25 years experience in supporting learning communities, managing nonprofits, designing curriculum, building partnerships and promoting new forms of organizational learning around sustainability issues.
The play, which is described as hilarious and serious, is a tour de force of lyric cartography, economic soliloquy, First Nations legend and sweeping history.
The Salmonpeople Tour is a long-term outreach and education strategy to engage watershed communities in building coalitions to design and measure sustainable prosperity. Organizers say the tour also is designed to link academic excellence to community service learning, in addition to passing along success stories among sister watershed communities.
Shows are scheduled at the following places:
• Bandon: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sprague Community Theater, 347-7426; http://www.spraguetheatre.com;
• Florence: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Florence Events Center, (541) 997-1994; http://www.eventcenter.org; and
• North Bend: Two Shows, with the first scheduled at 8 p.m., Oct. 20; and the second at 2 p.m., Oct. 21, at Little Theatre on the Bay, 756-4336; http://www.ltob.net.
Donaldson’s Salmonpeople was written to educate people of all ages. Salmon Nation is a cultural identity built around the soil and streams touched by Pacific Salmon. It stretches from Alaska down to California and inland to Idaho and even Montana. It crosses state and national borders. It reaches from the deep seas miles offshore to the high mountain streams that run ice cold.
Donaldson, a resident of the Puget Sound region, grew up in Corvallis, went to community college in Bend and worked for his dad for many summers at the old Ore-Aqua sea-ranching and fish processing facility in Newport.
“Salmonpeople” is sponsored by locally by the Coos Watershed Association, Little Theater on the Bay, and other organizations.
Known as the Johnny Appleseed of Salmon Nation, Donaldson’s campaign is based on people’s ancestral relationship to salmon. He is a master storyteller, educational consultant, and innovative facilitator, with 25 years experience in supporting learning communities, managing nonprofits, designing curriculum, building partnerships and promoting new forms of organizational learning around sustainability issues.
The play, which is described as hilarious and serious, is a tour de force of lyric cartography, economic soliloquy, First Nations legend and sweeping history.
The Salmonpeople Tour is a long-term outreach and education strategy to engage watershed communities in building coalitions to design and measure sustainable prosperity. Organizers say the tour also is designed to link academic excellence to community service learning, in addition to passing along success stories among sister watershed communities.
Shows are scheduled at the following places:
• Bandon: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sprague Community Theater, 347-7426; http://www.spraguetheatre.com;
• Florence: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Florence Events Center, (541) 997-1994; http://www.eventcenter.org; and
• North Bend: Two Shows, with the first scheduled at 8 p.m., Oct. 20; and the second at 2 p.m., Oct. 21, at Little Theatre on the Bay, 756-4336; http://www.ltob.net.
Donaldson’s Salmonpeople was written to educate people of all ages. Salmon Nation is a cultural identity built around the soil and streams touched by Pacific Salmon. It stretches from Alaska down to California and inland to Idaho and even Montana. It crosses state and national borders. It reaches from the deep seas miles offshore to the high mountain streams that run ice cold.
Donaldson, a resident of the Puget Sound region, grew up in Corvallis, went to community college in Bend and worked for his dad for many summers at the old Ore-Aqua sea-ranching and fish processing facility in Newport.
“Salmonpeople” is sponsored by locally by the Coos Watershed Association, Little Theater on the Bay, and other organizations.
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