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Societies and Organisations
| National UK group. Charity. |
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| The Mythstories Museum, Wem, Shropshire, England |
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| Emerson College, W.Sussex England. Many courses inc. storytelling plus an annual School of Storytelling. |
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| National organisation based at The Netherbow in Edinburgh. |
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| Community group in Milton Keynes who do a lot of Reminiscence work |
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| The central reference point for storytelling in Germany (English Language Version) |
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| Welsh Arts Centre which often runs storytelling events and courses |
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| The National Storytelling Network of the USA |
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| Hans Christian Andersen's life and works - research, texts and information. |
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| A non-profit organisation involved with peace-building and storytelling. |
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| A project of Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada for recording the voices of elders from the Canadian storytelling community |
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| The equivalent to SfS in UK |
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| A UK organisation encouraging literacy |
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| US record company with a vast catalogue of storytelling and traditional music |
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| Some pages come up in English! |
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| Gas Story | GAS Scottish storytelling association. |
| The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling | The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. |
| The Theatre of the Small | The Theatre of the Small & Small Beginnings Community Arts who run a storytelling and puppetry festival in Kent |
| Aos Scéal Éireann | Storytellers of Ireland |
| Young Storyteller of the Year | |
| Surrey Storytellers' Guild | |
| World Storytelling Day |
Clubs and Festivals
| Annual storytelling festival at Much Wenlock, Shropshire England |
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| Annual International storytelling festival in S.Wales |
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| Monthly performances at various venues around the Midlands, UK. |
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| UK Folk Festival in October. Usually has some storytelling. |
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| Annual event usually held in October in the Eden valley (Cumbria) |
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| Flying Donkeys | Derby storytelling club |
| Camden Ceildh | Storytelling club in London |
Storytellers
| Pete Castle: folk singer, storyteller and editor of Facts & Fiction. Based Derbyshire, England |
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| Storyteller's homepage plus a good point of entry for UK storytelling with links to everywhere. |
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| Writer, actor and storyteller. Site includes many of his short stories. Based in Salisbury, England. |
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| Teller based in Shropshire, England. |
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| Stories, songs and music. Based in Essex, England. |
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| American Storyteller and Scottish folk singer based in Fife, Scotland. |
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| Bulgarian myth, storytelling, music and folklore. Based in London, England. |
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| Storyteller and fiddler based in Cornwall, England. |
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| Storyteller and organiser based in Derbyshire, UK |
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| UK storyteller. |
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| Storyteller with an international reputation |
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| UK based storyteller. |
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| Kent based storyteller |
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| International storyteller also working as Toast Master, MC etc and in the business world. |
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| Australian storyteller |
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| Peter Chand | Wolverhampton based Punjabi storyteller |
| Mark Harandon | Storytelling and historical/period interpretation |
| Richard Rai O'Neil | Romani storyteller |
| Richard Martin | Storyteller. |
| Sue Jennings | Dr Sue Jennings. Storyteller and 'the grandmother of dramatherapy'. |
| Fiona Weir | Writer and trainer |
| Janet Dowling | Surrey based storyteller |
| Cassandra Wye | Internationally travelled storyteller |
Reference
| Worldwide links to everything you'd want re stories. |
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| A very comprehensive site for all folklore and mythology texts. |
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| Another good entry point run by storyteller/magician Leslie Melville. Contains a lot of stories. |
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| Stories and background to the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime philosophy. |
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| Fairy and folk tales discussion group |
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| Choose and purchase extracts. |
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| Folklore, mythology, cultural studies and related disciplines. |
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| Whirligig TV (and Radio) |
An ideal resource if you are doing Reminiscence work. It contains all kinds of clips from 1950s TV along with still photos, sound bites and descriptions. There's also a Radio link. |
| Sacred Texts | info. and stories from all the world's religions and mythologies. |
| The Oral Tradition | All 22 years of the journal Oral Tradition now available online and free of charge. |
If you try any of the links and find they don't work please let Pete know.
If you'd like your site included here (and can do a reciprocal link?) email details to Pete: steel.carpet@tiscali.co.uk
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