#MeetTheStoryteller Episode 7 Name: Seung Ah Kim From: South Korea *** *** *** Seung Ah, what made you want to be a professional storyteller? 2007 and 2009 were the most important years to me. In 2007, during a study trip to Toronto I attended part of the Toronto Storytelling Festival, and was surprised to find
March 20th is marked as World Storytelling Day. It is also marked as the International Day of happiness. Coincidence? I don’t think so! Started in Sweden in the early 90s, the practice of celebrating it with performances of oral storytelling has spread across the world, with many countries currently observing the day. In Nairobi, John
#MeetTheStoryteller Episode 6 Storyteller: Mshai Mwangola From: Kenya **** **** **** Karibu sana Mshai. Please describe your kind of performance. As a performance scholar, I understand “performance” to be a way of making meaning, a path of exploration into knowing. My kind of performance is characterised by three things: it emphasises the potential of the
#MeetTheStoryteller Episode 5 Name: ROGER JENKINS From: Singapore *** *** *** Hey Roger, what’s your story? When I say I am Singaporean, people often go ‘”Hunh?!” I was born in Singapore (back in the Jurassic period) to British service parents, but grew up in UK. After I returned to Singapore to work (as a drama
Name: Diane Ferlatte Country of Origin: USA ***** Tell us your story I have been telling stories for over 30 years to audiences from preschoolers to senior citizens, and all age groups in between. I have told at every type of venue imaginable from the most humble to the most lavish. When you love to
On the Cultural Trail to Rusinga Festival
She marched out of the lake, so they say. The myth of Nyamgondho With her back bent, wrinkles mapping her determined face, she raised her hand and the passive waters came alive. Hundreds of cows, goats, sheep, donkeys and all manner of domesticated fowl followed in her wake. The braying, moo-ing, baa-ing and clucking jolted
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