Register: Fall 2020 6-week Workshop

Register: Fall 2020 6-week Workshop

REGISTER HERE In this six-week immersive workshop, we will use magic and metaphor to transform our life stories. Parallel Narratives combine fortune telling, tarot, symbology, dream analysis and other interpretive tools to guide participants on a perspective-bending...
How Not Fitting In Can Lead To Creative Thinking

How Not Fitting In Can Lead To Creative Thinking

My childhood was, by most definitions, pretty strange. I grew up a Russian Jewish immigrant in Midland, Texas, in a region whose biggest claims to fame are being the onetime home of George W. Bush and the inspiration for Friday Night Lights. In preschool, I got in...
Edmund Dulac & The Boiled Lobster

Edmund Dulac & The Boiled Lobster

Cher Journal: Well, trouble brewing again. Mon père… Furious upon opening my law books, and seeing page upon page of wizards, mermaids, and unicorns painted by me over “the sacred words.” On explaining to him that these creatures are more real and dear to me than le...
A Conversation on Medicines

A Conversation on Medicines

TD: We’re so inundated by text right now. Right? It’s funny because sometimes I find myself sounding like I’m anti-literacy or something which is not true at all. But I think every time period requires a different medicine and there’s a lot of...
Meet up with Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab

Meet up with Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab

Facilitated by Lance Weiler, the director of Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (aka Columbia DSL), storytelling practitioners from a dozen countries met this afternoon for an informal dialogue about Parallel Narratives. Columbia DSL is a...