Storytelling festival
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A storytelling festival is often an annual event that features local, regional and/or nationally known storytellers. Each storyteller will have a scheduled amount of time(s) to share a story (or stories) with an audience. The featured storytellers are often professional, but semi-professional or amateur storytellers may also be included among the events.
Festivals may be a single or multiple day event. Depending upon the venue, the festival schedule is organized around blocks of time for the storytellers to share their stories. The storytellers may rotate between smaller venues or the crowds may move from venue to venue. Tents or an amplitheater might be used for outdoor storytelling concerts/venues. Auditoriums, theaters, historic buildings, classrooms or gymnasiums might be common indoor venues. Often storytelling festivals will include a "story swapping" opportunity for amateurs to share their own stories or even showcase the talent of winners of storytelling contests.
A tradition at many festivals (including the National Storytelling Festival (USA)), paper tickets are substituted by "swatches" of patterned cloth that are pinned on and worn by festival participants. These swatches of cloth have a different/unique pattern each year and various colors may be used to distinguish the level of participation.
[edit] See also
- Storytelling
- For a listing of individual storytellers, see the 'Storytellers' category below.
[edit] External links and references
- The National Storytelling Network (USA)
- Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada - Canadian list of festivals
- Storytelling festivals List of and links to storytelling festivals (USA and International)
- Due to the overwhelming number of festivals, individual festivals should be submitted to the above consolidated, external lists
- (See Talk:Storytelling_festival for more information and reference by Wikipedia Admin to the Wikipedia:External_links policy)
- Ultimate Storytelling Guide Storyteller and educator David Sidwell's "Ultimate Storytelling Guide."
