"Timothy Frantzich tells stories like those shaggy old guys in Ireland - and we suddenly understand events in our own lives better"
-Robert Bly
-poet and author of Iron John
Timothy Frantzich as a storyteller
has an eye for both worlds.
He holds the attention of the human community wonderfully
but leads us far out
into wild vistas,
pristine snow
and the shaggy tracks of God.
There is some keen solitude in the midst of his tellings
that invites all the animals nearer,
even the ones in our chest.
MARTIN SHAW,
Director the Westcountry School of Myth and Story, UK
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent,
read them more fairy tales."
-Albert Einstein
"These old stories nourish, warm and water dormant seeds within
that will grow in ways we can never imagine."
-Timothy Frantzich
These stories transform lives.
Timothy Frantzich [fran-zik] has been telling folktales in schools and workshops for 15 years.
The stories Timothy tells are ancient and without author. They have been passed down through oral tradition from grandparent to grandchild, from traveler to town-folk, from teacher to student...
in the flickering spark of firelight, in the morning sun, in the classroom of 2017.
Timothy is careful to balance the masculine and feminine as he tells stories from all corners of the earth... Russian, African, Norwegian, Persian, European, Native American, Chinese, South American... ALL ancient cultures have wise stories that nourish, transform and help guide our living. They were alive back then... and are alive here and now.
These stories gently and powerfully address issues of race, diversity, otherness, fear, transformation, independence, isolation, grandiosity and community.
and, equally important, these stories are a joy to tell and to take in.
Timothy Frantzich [fran-zik] has been telling folktales in schools and workshops for 15 years.
The stories Timothy tells are ancient and without author. They have been passed down through oral tradition from grandparent to grandchild, from traveler to town-folk, from teacher to student...
in the flickering spark of firelight, in the morning sun, in the classroom of 2017.
Timothy is careful to balance the masculine and feminine as he tells stories from all corners of the earth... Russian, African, Norwegian, Persian, European, Native American, Chinese, South American... ALL ancient cultures have wise stories that nourish, transform and help guide our living. They were alive back then... and are alive here and now.
These stories gently and powerfully address issues of race, diversity, otherness, fear, transformation, independence, isolation, grandiosity and community.
and, equally important, these stories are a joy to tell and to take in.