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...
by storytree | Jan 27, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
How can a simple old folktale be useful for activists and changemakers in complex modern crises? In tabloid papers, Chicken Little has at times been used by cartoonists in extremely dismissive and sometimes savage ways to imply that environmentalists warning of...
