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The Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award 2012
Congratulations
 Kevin Brooks and Laura Packer, dedicated LANES members from Malden, Massachusetts, were chosen as the awardees of the much coveted Brother Blue & Ruth Hill Award for their support, dedication and contribution to Storytelling. Each of these incredible storytellers as individuals have made significant contributions in their own right to supporting and promoting storytelling and storytellers in New England and throughout the country and world for that matter. They are the perfect team in many ways not unlike Ruth and Blue themselves. Their continual support of storytellers in the development of their art is endless. “They are an essential part of the fabric of the storytelling world. Each with their own, very individual style of telling, organizing, and celebrating is essential in this community because they have created the weave that their lives and skills now hold.
It is one thing to step into a role and fulfill it well, but Kevin and Laura have created a tapestry of community and opportunity that we all find some splendor in.”
Just a few of the accomplishments of Kevin and Laura extracted from nomination letters:
About The Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award This award is named in honor of its two original recipients Brother Blue (a.k.a. Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill) and Ruth Hill. Both have long been recognized and honored as tireless in their promotion of storytelling and storytellers throughout the New England region. Each year the LANES Board of Directors presents the award to one recipient in recognition of his or her extraordinary commitment and efforts to promote a broader understanding of the art of storytelling and the support of storytellers in the development of their art. It serves, as Brother Blue, has said, “To honor those who give their lives to storytelling to change the world.” For a candidate to be considered for this award they must have demonstrated their dedication in creating and nurturing a strong storytelling community, be it by individual mentoring, guild or event venues or by fostering a greater public awareness of storytelling and its applications in all areas of society.
Brother Blue and Ruth Hill taken in 2007 Any LANES member(s) is eligible for nomination, but as this is a regional award, their work must primarily be of benefit to the Northeast area or completed during a time when they were a resident of any of the New England states or New York State Any person may submit a nominee for consideration by sending a letter of application and essay detailing support for their nomination. Additional letters of support are encouraged but not required. Nominations for the 2012 award were to be submitted to the Board of Directors of LANES via email ONLY and were to be received by January 31, 2012. Late submissions are not being considered. A recipient was selected by the LANES Board of Directors based only on the nominating application, essay and other relevant materials submitted. Current members of the LANES Board were not eligible for nomination. Presentation of the award will be made on the Saturday evening of the Sharing the Fire Conference on March 17, 2012 at the Sovereign Hotel, Albany, New York. Nominations and supporting materials for the 2012 Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award are closed for please consider nominating someone in 2013!
To Visit past recipients of the Brother Blue and Ruth Hill please click here. Here is a list of all the Honorees of the Brother Blue Ruth Hill Award: 2012 Laura Packer and Kevin Brooks 2011 Robert Smyth 2010 Founders of MASSMOUTH – Andrea Lovett, Doria Hughes, Norah Dooley, and Stu Mendelson 2009 Karen Chace 2008 Ann Shapiro 2007 Onawumi Jean Moss 2006 Glenn Morrow 2005 Peg O’Sullivan 2004 Barbara Lipke 2003 George Radcliffe 2002 Brother Blue and Ruth Hill
On behalf of the LANES,
Yvonne Yvonne Zinicola Executive Director, LANES League for Advancement of New England Storytelling, Inc. Serving New England and New York Website: www.lanes.org Phone: 857-205-2637 Email: lanesdirector@gmail.com or director@lanes.org A Living Tribute to Brother BlueThe passing of Brother Blue leaves a hole in our lives. That hole, though painful, also creates a space to be filled with good work. The recipients of this award and the tellers in the streets, prisons, schools, churches and around the table are a A Living Tribute to Brother Blue. The Story Space 20th Anniversary Celebration
On February 7, 2012, storytellers from Boston and beyond celebrated a milestone:
The series begun in 1992 by world renowned master storyteller Brother Blue and his wife, Ruth Edmonds Hill marked the occasion with a blowout evening of top shelf storytelling and a few surprises.
Brother Blue has since passed on and Ruth Edmonds Hill is no longer involved in running the series, but a team of committed regulars carries the torch to this day with the same Tuesday evenings of eclectic open mic plus features from as far away as northern N.E., New York, other parts of the U.S. and even Great Britain.
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