This is a good example of how we in the storytelling community – we think that our problems are unique to us. I am not saying that you think that. But I am saying that many people in storytelling community and many storytellers think that they have to reinvent the wheel, that storytelling clubs or organizations are complete unique in terms of arts centered organizations.

So storytelling has that ability to basically create amazingly complex stories with hardly any budget.

I am Ron Chic of Chain of Unbroken Stories. I have spent this wonderful week with these storytellers. Now I want to take that energy and that feeling and that attention and bring it out into the real world. How do you get another audience to understand the nature of what you are saying?

My Name is Alton Chung, and my question is we have young people who are going to Moths, story slams and poetry slams and that’s young, it’s vibrant, intense and that is where they go and listen to these stories. And yet we have the older generations who are in the established, National Storytelling Network, [...]

Community Storytelling is a form of oral narrative where the storyteller has already entered into relationship with the audience before the story begins.

As a teacher of storytelling, I know that there are a lot of people who are interested, but not really invested, in the study of the art that I love so much. When I discover the passion for storytelling inside a student that matches my own, I find that experience exhilarating and thrilling. My students have [...]