Discounted Assemblies for the fall!! (or start your school year off with a bang.)
The beginning of the school year is a perfect time for an assembly program that will start your children out on the right foot. The calls...
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Tim Hartman
- Jul 7, 2017
- 1 min
Gettysburg Battle portrait poster is now available!
The poster contains 143 historical pen and ink portraits drawn by artist Tim Hartman for the new book from Savas Beatie Publishing:...
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Tim Hartman
- Jul 6, 2017
- 1 min
What exactly does comedy storytelling look like?
It's the question I have to answer the most from people who are interested in having me do a performance. If I'm not telling a...
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Tim Hartman
- Jun 19, 2017
- 1 min
A classic story, but NOT the good guy.
Can we learn anything from a character that behaves poorly? I often portray terrible people in both my storytelling and plays. The...
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Tim Hartman
- May 26, 2017
- 3 min
In other words.....
Yesterday, May 25, I did a performance for a large group of 6th graders at a school south of Pittsburgh called Neil Armstrong Middle...
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Tim Hartman
- May 20, 2017
- 1 min
Audiences of many kinds..
Just this last week, alone, I have performed for a group of pre-schoolers, a group of senior citizens who donate their time as tutors,...
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Tim Hartman
- May 10, 2017
- 2 min
Sometimes I don't have to do a thing!
Recently I was performing at a 'Book Festival' in Youngstown, OH. I really enjoy these kinds of venues. Usually, when I perform, it's for...
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Tim Hartman
- May 2, 2017
- 1 min
Two schools: Too much fun!
Last Friday I spent the day at a couple of elementary schools in the Elizabeth Forward School District. I'm not sure I've ever laughed as...
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Tim Hartman
- Apr 25, 2017
- 1 min
Youngstown's Children's Book Festival
Saturday, April 29th, I'll be performing for the fourth time at the Youngstown Children's Book Festival. It's a lovely park and an...
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Tim Hartman
- Apr 17, 2017
- 4 min
Toothless
(First Grade class picture. I'm in the second row down, third from the left.) When I was three, my family went to visit a friend of my...
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Tim Hartman
- Apr 12, 2017
- 1 min
'Can we stay inside and write a story?'
Yesterday I performed my 'Construct-a-tale' assembly for 3 grade levels at Mountain Ridge Intermediate School in Gerrardstown, WV. The...
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Tim Hartman
- Apr 11, 2017
- 4 min
The teacher.
When I worked in New York, I lived in a one-room apartment in the basement of a four-story house in an area of New Jersey called...
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Tim Hartman
- Apr 4, 2017
- 3 min
The Miracle Fruit.
I found this other picture from my show at Elizabeth Forward Middle School on my phone. There is a teacher in a khaki shirt with his hand...
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Tim Hartman
- Mar 30, 2017
- 2 min
Twenty years and counting....
For the last 20 or so years, Elizabeth Forward Middle School has been sending its 6th graders to 'A Musical Christmas Carol'. (A show I...
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Tim Hartman
- Mar 28, 2017
- 2 min
Self promotion is the worst
Every time I have to do a blog or promote myself someway, I become very uncomfortable. I really wish I didn't have to do it. I grew up...
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Tim Hartman
- Mar 25, 2017
- 1 min
The cover illustration.
You might have noticed I use this illustration a lot in my storytelling materials. It was drawn in 2005 for the cover of Storytelling...
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Tim Hartman
- Mar 21, 2017
- 1 min
Fort Ligonier Storytellers
I'm often asked to talk to groups about storytelling. Today I was at Fort Ligonier, Pa. Not only do I love the town of Ligonier, because...
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Tim Hartman
- Mar 18, 2017
- 2 min
When I perform for children.....
It might seem an obvious point, but when I perform for children, I perform for children. I know! It sounds too simple, but children, in...
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Tim Hartman
- Mar 17, 2017
- 1 min
Discovering Gettysburg
'Discovering Gettysburg' is a book my friend Stephen Coleman and I have been working on for several years. Stephen came to me with the...
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Tim Hartman
- Mar 15, 2017
- 1 min
McQuistion Elementary in Butler, PA
Today I did 2 performances of 'Folktrails' at McQuistion. I love this show, because it goes from the ridiculous to the dramatic. I make...
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