Category Archives: Storytellers

Story telling chair

Photo by Janet Morrell, taken in St Ives, West Yorkshire, England (CC License).
Flickr | Janet’s collections

Comfort Adesuwa Ero

Comfort grew up in Nigeria, the daughter of a chief, and has learned and told folktales and songs ever since she learned to talk. She studied languages and drama and became a teacher at a time when it was very unpopular in Africa to send girls to school. She left her native land when authorities […]

Stories for change

All about digital storytelling: stories, resources for facilitators, events info, networking and more.

“The power of community digital storytelling workshops rests in their ability to inspire, connect, and incite action within and between local groups; the goal of Stories for Change is to further nurture that spirit online.”

Link | www.storiesforchange.net

Feeling the music

“Deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie leads the audience through an exploration of music not as notes on a page, but as an expression of the human experience.”

Via | www.ted.com
Link | www.evelyn.co.uk

Isabel Allende in TED 2007 - Tales of passion

“In one of the most beloved talks from TED2007, novelist Isabel Allende talks about writing, women, passion, feminism. She tells the stories of powerful women she has known, some larger-than-life, and some simply living with grace, dignity and ingenuity in a world that, in too many ways, still treats women unjustly.”
(Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, […]