After Rudyard Kipling’s If, Imagine and Human Rights Day, here we are to a new clip from Storytellers for Peace. World Storytelling Day is celebrated every year around the world near March 20. This year's theme is transformation. They tried to answer the following question: how writing and telling stories may transform the world in a better place? Twelve storytellers from ten diverse nations tell their responses (with English subtitles):
In order of appearance:
Beatriz Montero (Spain) Jozé Sabugo (Portugal) Cecilia Moreschi (Italy) Hamid Barole Abdu (Eritrea) Katharina Ritter (Germany) Enrique Páez (Spain) Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher (Italy) Sandra Burmeister G. (Chile) D.M.S. Ariyrathne (Sri Lanka) Juliana Marín (Colombia) Mahfuz Jewel (Bangladesh) Suzanne Sandow (Australia) Storytellers for Peace is an international group of narrators who create collective stories through videos. Artists and stories are from all over the world and speak about peace, justice, equality and human rights. All participants tell one or more verses of the story in their first language. The project was created and is coordinated by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher, author, storyteller, stage actor and director.
the Storytellers for Peace: Janine Cariño, aka Storyteller Pet, from Philippines.
She is a storyteller, a teacher and also an artist.
In the past she was a member of Ambahanon Philippines theatre, the official performing arts group of Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges, a team that transforms "stories" into contemporary movements.
Then she became founding member of the Storybook Project Philippines, that is a self- sustaining movement propelled by volunteerism which envisions to develop a generation of readers sharing the love for reading from early age through storytelling.
She launched another franchise, the Storybook Project Malungon in Malungon Sarangani Province, with 110 student and teacher-volunteers.
She is now working to launch a Storybook Project in Bangkok Thailand in the orphanage, government pediatric wards and open spaces.
Storyteller Pet is also member of the International Storytellers Network.
Here we are back with new entries around the Storytellers for Peace, who recently created a new video for the International Day of Peace 2016, Imagine. Today it is the time of Omira Bellizzio, from Venezuela. She is a poet, writer, storyteller, reading and creative writing entertainer for children and adolescents. She has a degree in International Studies and radio speaking from the Central University of Venezuela and a Venezuelan Masters in Literature, University of Carabobo. She is also an university expert in Reading activities graduate of UNED Spain as a Fellow of the Organization of American States (OAS). She produces and leads the Radial Mircro Poetapop by University Cultural FM 104.5 station of the University of Carabobo. She is also member of Red International of Storytellers. Official website: http://es.wix.com/omirabell/omirabellizzio Blog: http://secretosdeltaller.blogspot.it/
Another new entry inside the Storytellers for Peace. José António Soares Figueira, aka Jozé Sabugo, is a storyteller, teacher, stage actor and director from Portugal.
He studied at Berthold Brecht Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed with Augusto Boal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Portugal.
He began his career as a professional storyteller in 1995, after creating the project Hora do Conto (Story Time) - animation of books and reading, at Municipal Library of Sintra, in Portugal.
He introduced there for the first time a National Ethnography Congress. One of the tales was counted live for Rádio Renascença.
After studying and doing theater in Brazil, he returns to Portugal and founded the Grupo Acusa Teatro (Group Accuses Theatre).
Since then, he never stopped telling stories, either through oral narration, sometimes by reading in libraries, schools, museums, meetings and festivals.
Besides storytelling, he works regularly in theater as a teacher, producer, programmer, director in the Casa das Cenas - Educação pela Arte (House of scenes - Education through Art), in Sintra.
He is member of the International Storytelling Network.
Here I am to talk about new entries in the Storytellers for Peace.
Today I present you Sandra Burmeister, from Chile.
She is co-host of the radio program for cultural promotion called "Women" in Radio University of Santiago, Chile (Dial 94.5FM), theatrical pedagogist, actress-narrator, writer and public relations officer.
She graduated with honors at the University of the Pacific in Chile, having been formed earlier in theatrical performance with outstanding teachers at the School of Theatre Patricio Achurra and Eduardo Mujica.
Later, she deepened in teacher specialization Theatre Pedagogy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
In 2015, she published a novel for preteens called "ChapeKa, the orange girl" commercial-free distribution for public libraries purposes.
Currently she investigates, theorizes and reflects on storytelling for the development of people as inspiring agent identity in the culture.
Here we are again to tell you about the Storytellers for Peace.
In alphabetic order, here is Nayeli Spela, from Slovenia.
Spela Peterlin, aka Nayeli, president and founder of MOAVE, is a psychologist, positive psychology freelanced trainer, intuitive dancer, acroyogi, writer and passionate mover.
In her workshops she focuses on building solid and positive dynamics of the group and providing different strategies for exploration and personal expression. Here you can watch a sample of her work.
Her presence inside the Storytellers for Peace group is the beautiful proof that we can tell stories with everything we have to share.
Let’s ultimate the presentation, in alphabetic order, of the Storytellers for Peace.
Today we tell some news about Raquel Silvetti, from Uruguay.
Raquel is storyteller, author, children Preschooler educator children's stories writer.
As oral narrator, she has participated in activities throughout the country, both in rural, urban and Institutes schools for children with different abilities.
She coordinates the sightseeing of schools and colleges to the National Library. She goes around rural schools in the country engaged in an activity of storytelling stage and stimulation to writing. She conducted workshops for teachers on the subject of Oral Narration.
She also visits rural schools narrating tales encouraging reading traveling around the country. Here you can watch an interview about her work.
Completing the alphabetic presentation of the Storytellers for Peace, here is Suzanne Sandow, from Australia.
Suzanne is director, actor, storyteller and workshop facilitator. She has studied acting at Nida and taught after-school drama from 1990 to 2001 at Melbourne Girls Grammar School.
Suzanne took a side step from Acting and started storytelling well over 20 years ago at a Fairy exhibition for the Glen Eira City Council, she went with this exhibition to Kyabrum where she also presented Storytelling workshops for beginning tellers. Then she moved on to be a regular storyteller at Wonderwings Fairy Shop for adult parties. She has worked extensively as a teller in Schools, Libraries, Shops and Shopping Centers, Community Festivals and Private Parties.
Suzanne often morphs into her Fairy Character - Moth for storytelling sessions as she recently did at the 18th Annual Kanoon Storytelling Festival in Iran.
Suzanne has also had the honour of being the President of the Victorian Branch of Storytelling Australia and has served on the Committee for the last two years.
Let’s carry on alphabetically with the presentation of the Storytellers for Peace.
The next name is Lydia Ruiz, from Spain. Journalist on the field for about 15-year of career, vocational creative, mother and now entrepreneur, merged her passions (communicate and move) to make them her profession: Custom Storyteller, offering personal biographies and creative videos with soul to both companies and individuals.
How his her goal? To make journalism a memorable experience. How? Providing leadership, visibility and emotions.
You may watch here her own video presentation.
Continuing our alphabetical members’ presentation of the Storytellers for Peace, here is Katharina Ritter, from Germany.
Katharina actually published five books. From commercial training she ended up in the film industry, working there over ten years till 1998, when she finally discovered another form of "filmmaking": storytelling - that theater of the mind.
Since then she travelled all over the country, with borrowed and many own stories, developed audio guides and narrative series for museums, published audio picture books and told and told, always free, wild and directly.
You may visit here her Youtube Channel.
Let’s proceed further presenting alphabetically the Storytellers for Peace.
Here we are to Kristin Pedemonti, from USA. Award winning, Cause-Focused Storyteller, Speaker, and TED Talks talent search finalist, Kristin builds bridges between people and breaks down stereotypes and barriers through stories of hope, understanding, perseverance and resilience. She currently works as a Storytelling Consultant for the World Bank. Kristin is the 1st American Storyteller invited to perform in Iran at the Kanoon International Storytelling Festival. She shows you a world where we are all interconnected and encourages everyone to realize their story matters.
She performs & presents worldwide sharing Traditional & True Tales. You can learn more here: www.storytellerkp.com
Here is her interesting Youtube Channel.
Let’s go forward illustrating, alphabetically, the members of the Storytellers for Peace.
Today's name is Enrique Páez.
Enrique is a Spanish writer specialized in children's and young’s literature.
From his website, you can read that he has worked as an editor and professor of Language and Literature at different educational levels in Madrid and New York (primary, secondary and university).
He won Lazarillo Prize on literary creation in 1991 by the novel Give me the ring, pinky hair. He has already published six novels, all within the children's literature and has been translated into German, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese, Thai, Euskera, Catalan, Valencian, Galician and Braille.
He has a Youtube channel on creative writing among the most followed in internet.
He is also founder and coordinator of the Red International of Storytellers.
Proceeding with the alphabetical presentation of Storytellers for Peace, we have now arrived to Beatriz Montero.
Beatriz is an incredible author and storyteller from Spain.
In her website, you may read that she has given workshops, lectures and made performances in the most important Storytelling Festivals, Universities, Congress and other important Institutions in twenty-one countries all over the world.
Very talented with children stories, she has the Storytelling Youtube Channel most visited in the world with more than 23 million visits and more than 53 million subscribers.
She is also founder and coordinator of the Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos (International Storytelling Network).
Continuing the exploration, in strict alphabetical order, of the Storytellers for Peace, here is Mahfuz Jewel, from Bangladesh.
As well as narrator, Mahfuz is also a journalist, a poet and a visual artist.
He currently works with the TV channel Somoy Media Limited and has always been very sensitive to issues concerning human rights and pacifism.
From his blog, of course written in Bengali, he says of himself: I am a son of the earth, the whole world is my home.
Let’s go forward presenting the artists who have recently joined the Storytellers for Peace project.
Alphabetically, today’s protagonist is Sarah Cattani.
On her interesting work I have already written in the past here.
Here is what she writes of herself on her website: When is the best moment to quit your job, get rid of all the things you gathered throughout the years and leave to travel the world? I really don’t know, but at some point I decided that the time is now!
I was curious about the world since a child and figured exploring it, in every possible way, would be the right thing to do, and so I did. After a career in art, culture and social related documentaries for television and radio for almost 10 years in my hometown Luxembourg, editorial work for a magazine that connects visual arts and sustainability, creative work for exhibitions and video installations, I decided to leave everything behind and started my personal journey around the globe.
If you ask me today : “Where would you wanna be right now, if you could be anywhere? “ The answer would definitely be “here and now”. And as long as that’s my answer, I know that I am exactly where I should be and that makes me happy and content every single day.
Life is now, and that’s the only truth there is...
After Rudyard Kipling’s If, Imagine and Human Rights Day, here we are to a new clip from Storytellers for Peace.
