Interviews
Deepen your cultural awareness in storytelling
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Wangari Grace
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LIVE from the 18th of September 2023
A performance Storyteller and Children's author based in Nairobi, Kenya, Wangari the Storyteller as she is popularly known, believes in the power of stories to make us reflect on life past, present and future. She is currently involved in a collaborative, Performative History project that uses storytelling and musical to discuss about the colonial period in Africa (1880 - 1960) through storytelling and music.
Wangari’s performances are highly participatory with the stories woven with dance, chant, song and other performance delicacies.
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Hears Crow
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LIVE from the 19th of October 2023
Hears Crow, is a woman of the Eastern Woodlands who lives her life in the tradition of the Nanhigganêuck, the people known today as the Narragansett. For over thirty years, she has been a Storyteller primarily of Longhouse Tales and other indigenous cultures. Hears Crow is also an educator, published poet and workshop leader “Stories are bridges that can link diverse cultures, transform our spirits, and open our hearts to one another. When our cultures, spirits, and hearts are open the Earth Mother will be healed.”
She is on the faculty of the Transformation Storytelling School, the Vermont State Liason to the National Storytelling Network, and a Youth Mentor through the Youth Storytellers Standing Together.
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Chandrika Joshi
November 2023
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Chandrika is a storyteller, writer and a Hindu Priestess who lives in Wales. She learnt storytelling from her parents where her father was a Hindu priest and her mother no less. Hinduism has its base in the metaphysical wisdom of the Vedas. All ancient Hindu stories from the Purana to Panchatantra carry this message. Storytelling and story listening are important part of the religious lives of Hindus. The stories are both entertaining and deeply wise. Chandrika tells these stories to pass on the wisdom which is universal.
If anyone want to get in touch with me, I am Chandrika Joshi Hindu priestess on Instagram and Facebook.
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Dirk Nowakowski
April 2024
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Dirk is a storyteller, museum pedagogue, stage designer and graphic artist and he came into storytelling. His presentation about "Storytelling - a bridge between cultures" is the essence of decades of exploration and studies in his field.
Storytelling - a bridge between cultures ?
A lot has already been created and written about " storytelling as a bridge". Storytellers act as "bridge builders" and perform valuable communicative and artistic work.
As a storyteller and museum educator, I consider the "building material" of the "bridge". What is it based on? How was it built?
The material consists of the first records of chroniclers and missionaries, who tried to preserve and write down the relics of oral cultures and describe narrative situations and narrators in primarily oral cultures.
They brought the first collections of sayings, myths and stories to Europe. Starting from these, the spectrum extends to the more recent German-language, non-European collections.
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Would you like to be an interview partner?
Do you have a close bond to your own culture and can you give the international community of storytellers a glimpse of what would be important to you, when stories from your heritage are told by storytellers from other cultural backgrounds?
Or do you want to share the knowledge you have already gained about cultural awareness and storytelling?
We would be delighted to hear from you!
(You can also recommend somebody to us.)
"My name is Momo and I will be having the interview with you.
Before the interview we will have an informal conversation where we can get to know each other and discuss the topic, content and form of the interview. If you like, we can invite audience to the interview and open the space for questions from the community.
I am looking forward to get to know you!
See you soon!"
