Young Storytellers network

[Love Ersare]

Hello Storytellers!

In sweden we have a big project were we are educating young storytellers, Last weekend I was in Birmingham at Young Storyteller of the Year. I am wondering who else out there is making projects with the aim to educate the new generation of storytellers and if we can find ways to cooperate.

I am myself i quite young storyteller, 25 years old, and I am lookig for all projects that work with storytellers from my age and below.

One of my main ideas is that we creat a Ning or a similar network for young storytellers and to be storytellers from all over the world. The goal is that our students can meet storytellers from all over the world and exchange experiences, look for stories together and start their own projects.

We who work with young storytellers should also start communicating and talk about future cooperations. I am very interested in finding other European projects and prepare a great seminar about this on FEST i Laussanne.

I Birmingham we made the first small attemt of a International Young Storytelling camp with Swedish and British young storytellers. In the future I can se big international storytelling-camps.

Do you have more Ideas or feedback on minne, and could you please tell us of your work?

[Kevin Walker]

Good luck with this Love.....alot of work goes on in the UK as you have already found, it should be fun and very rewarding to build on this. Good luck with it.....from an oldie!!

[Jo Radner]

Hi, Love --
It's great to hear about young storytellers in Europe getting organized. You might want to connect with the New Voices group of our National Storytelling Network -- an informal but very active group of younger tellers. Contact people are Katie Knutson ([e-mail]) and Rachel Hedman ([e-mail]). You can learn more about NSN at www.storynet.org.

Jo Radner

[Rachel Hedman]

Dear Love:

With the creation of young storytelling camps ("young" being a relative word), you will want to have connections with the Florida Story Camp.

There is also the National Youth Storytelling Showcase. Though it is not a camp, it may be an event to connect for some of your projects.

Many members of the Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance (special interest group of the National Storytelling Network), would be interested in your projects. They have a presence on Professional Storyteller as well as on Facebook.

Until we tell again,

Rachel Hedman

[Love Ersare]

Great to hear from you all!

I found your group Rachel, and it is great, I will take part in all teh discussions as soon as I have time.

I am interested in all projects, both porjects in schools who are part of education, and those that are searching for new professional storytelling Voices.
It would be grat to connect both all those very young storytelling students, and all the, a bit older but still young, professional storytellers.

[Love Ersare]

Hello

Here is more information in English about the project "Young storytellers on Stage" if you are interested. We are looking for intenational connections, festivals to visit, and partners for a comeing international storytelling camp.

[Csenge Zalka]

Good to hear about this! I'm 23, and I'm always happy to find other storytellers my age :) There is a storytelling course going on here in Budapest, but that's for every age, and it mainly has people older than us. We don't have story education though. I mean, not yet ;)
Looking forward to meeting you in Lausanne :)
Csenge

[Love Ersare]

Hello Csenge

How many young storytellers are you in Budapest? I have been to many storytelling courses where I am the only participant below 50 :)

Yes, Lausanne will be a great meeting point, there will be a Seminar about young storytelling there.

[Csenge Zalka]

I'm the only one I know about. The others are well over 40 and 50. That of course doesn't mean there are no tellers younger than that, it's just we are not organized at all and I haven't met them yet :)

[Rachel Hedman]

Or the 18-30-year-old storytellers call themselves by another name or title. We have only to discover what groups they tend to be in--whether as actors or writers, etc.

Until we tell again,

Rachel Hedman

[Csenge Zalka]

Good point! Over here, most of them are folk singers, stand-up comedians or street actors. All of them great, by the way :) Still, a huge part of being a storyteller is thinking about yourself as one ;)

[Kat Quatermass]

Hi Love,

I didn't get a chance to talk to you, but was running the evaluation stand at YStoY. Joe White (the red headed 15 year old who competed in the over 18's!) is the chair of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Young Tellers and they have a ning group - perhaps you could message me with your email address - I'll pass it on to Joe and he can let you see what they were up to.
It is supported by Dez and Ali from Mythstories (see my website) who are interested in developing young storytellers.

[Love Ersare]

Sorry it took so long, I missed this post!

It would be great if you could forward my email! it is [e-mail]

Yesterday I said farwell to Wilf and Ruthie (1st and 2nd in Ystoty 18-25) who visited our Young storytelling-camp at the Ljungby festival. It was amazing to have them here!