by storytree | Mar 5, 2023 | Learning to tell stories, Public Performances, Resources, The value of oral storytelling
How do you choose a story in a soulful way? Well, sometimes you just need a history story for Year 9 tomorrow or a story on kindness for Preschoolers next week, and you haven’t got the luxury or space to spend time contemplating and that is 100% OK! But when you...
by storytree | Mar 3, 2023 | Australian stories, environmental storytelling, Folk Tales, Learning to tell stories, Local stories, social justice, Storytelling
ABOVE: Anandan McEwen up a pole at Bentley Blockade, Pic Gasfield-free Our upcoming Brisbane ‘World Storytelling Day’ Concert on March 20, has the global theme, ‘Together We Can’. I will tell an Indian folktale that insistently called me to...
by storytree | Oct 20, 2022 | Learning to tell stories, The value of oral storytelling
I taught a Personal Storytelling workshop on Saturday in Nimbin, organised by Rene Nowrie. Rene plans to start a Moth-like personal story event there next year called Nimbin Storytellers. Read the article below. What a glorious spring day it was! On the way, I visited...
by storytree | Jun 4, 2021 | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Storytelling
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is one of the world’s most popular and oft retold folktales. Versions range from the moralistic version by Charles Perrault, the Grimms Brothers, simplistic watered-down picture books for preschoolers, to Disney films to erotic cartoons for...
by storytree | Mar 7, 2020 | Folk Tales, social justice, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
Bizarre hoarding behaviour over toilet paper has developed in Australia, the US, Singapore and possibly other countries in response to the rise of COVID-19, the most serious strain of the novel coronavirus. People are not just buying enough for a few weeks of...