For a storyteller presence is a very important asset There is a good reason why it comes up in so many workshops with so many different exercises to achieve it.
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Well, I have to admit - quite profanely - they actually live in my brain. If my brain has the idea that this or that story is no longer needed,
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A long time before I even had the idea for this trip the name of Liz Weir kept crossing my path. I don’t have any reliable data on this, but
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And what if you have to decide that within an instant? That could mean that you have just entered the realm of improvisation. To be honest, up until now I
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Very! If you let Rab Fulton tell them. His regular pub is the Crane Bar You find Rab on the upper floor every Thursday night in front of a crowd
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Her great-grandmother told stories to her grandmother. Her grandmother told stories to her mother. Her mother told stories to her. She is telling stories to the whole world When Maria
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Another festaival! Great!! When I’m thinking ‘festival’ ... I’m thinking hundreds of people, lot’s of shows all over the day, big tents, campers, cars – something that looks like people
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John Francis Campbell (1821-1885) collected Gaelic Stories. Just about like the brothers Grimm did. But unlike the Grimms he wrote the stories down word for word as they were told
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In the middle of Edinburgh’s touristic hotspot there is the Scottish Storytelling Centre. That in itself is very remarkable to me, and it shows what an important part the telling
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