The Society for Storytelling was set up to promote the oldest art form in the world. Storytelling is at the root of every art form: we think in story form, make sense of our world in narrative - from something we’ve seen - from last night’s television, to what family and folk stories we remember and retell. Performance storytelling can be a powerful experience, both entertaining and moving. Story is also the traditional medium of communication from generation to generation, a tool for education and therapy. The deaf community carry their stories in the palm of their hands and write them in the air. For visually impaired people, storytelling is a natural accessible medium that stimulates all the senses of the imagination.
The Society for Storytelling seeks through National Storytelling Week to give all elements of the tradition their voice.
National Storytelling Week was conceived in the year 2000 AD to increase public awareness of the art, practice and value of oral storytelling. It is held during the first week of February every year.
This week was chosen because it is not too close to Christmas and coincides with Candlemas, which falls on the 2nd of February. Part of the rituals for this old church festival includes a blessing on the throat, a prime tool in the store of nearly all storytellers of every belief and culture.
The first publicity for National Storytelling Week is issued now to national and local media in the late spring. This allows for teachers and others who perhaps need a greater length of time to prepare their ideas for events. Other Press Releases follow in late summer and early winter as the build up grows. Indeed throughout the months of December and January each year the Society for Storytelling is deluged with post and emails of interest and participation in this rapidly growing national event. In 2007 the seventh year of National Storytelling Week there were 1,040 events held throughout the country
The Society for Storytelling provides advice on organising and publicising events, possible sources for funding information.
The National Storytelling Week Pack contains information on promoting storytelling events, storytelling in schools, libraries museums and art galleries and a whole series of pamphlets on storytelling in fields such as business, health, and therapy where its use has very specific disciplines
In 2009 National Storytelling Week reached 16,000 people of various ages with storytelling events and performances in schools, arts centres, libraries, theatres, museums, pubs, bookshops, storytelling clubs, retirement homes and prisons!
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