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STORYTELLING LINKS

Societies and Organisations

Society for Storytelling

National UK group. Charity.

Mythstories

The Mythstories Museum, Wem, Shropshire, England

Emerson College

Emerson College, W.Sussex England. Many courses inc. storytelling plus an annual School of Storytelling.

Scottish Storytelling Centre

National organisation based at The Netherbow in Edinburgh.

Living Archive

Community group in Milton Keynes who do a lot of Reminiscence work

German Storytelling

The central reference point for storytelling in Germany (English Language Version)

Bleddfa Centre

Welsh Arts Centre which often runs storytelling events and courses

StoryNet

The National Storytelling Network of the USA

The Hans Christian Andersen Centre in Denmark

Hans Christian Andersen's life and works - research, texts and information.

The Teaching and Learning for Peace Foundation

A non-profit organisation involved with peace-building and storytelling.

Storysave

A project of Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada for recording the voices of elders from the Canadian storytelling community

Storytellers of Canada

The equivalent to SfS in UK

The National Literacy Trust

A UK organisation encouraging literacy

Folk Legacy

US record company with a vast catalogue of storytelling and traditional music

The Japan Storytellers Association

Some pages come up in English!

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

Festival at the Edge

Annual storytelling festival at Much Wenlock, Shropshire England

Beyond the Border

Annual International storytelling festival in S.Wales

Storytelling Cafe

Monthly performances at various venues around the Midlands, UK.

Tenterden Folk Festival

UK Folk Festival in October. Usually has some storytelling.

The North Pennine Storytelling Festival

Annual event usually held in October in the Eden valley (Cumbria)

Flying Donkeys Derby storytelling club
Camden Ceildh Storytelling club in London

Storytellers

Pete Castle

Pete Castle: folk singer, storyteller and editor of Facts & Fiction. Based Derbyshire, England

Tim Sheppard

Storyteller's homepage plus a good point of entry for UK storytelling with links to everywhere.

Mike Rogers

Writer, actor and storyteller. Site includes many of his short stories. Based in Salisbury, England.

Amy Douglas

Teller based in Shropshire, England.

Charlie Wilson

Stories, songs and music. Based in Essex, England.

Wendy Welch and Jack Beck

American Storyteller and Scottish folk singer based in Fife, Scotland.

A Spell in Time

Bulgarian myth, storytelling, music and folklore. Based in London, England. 

Mike O'Connor

Storyteller and fiddler based in Cornwall, England.

Graham Langley

Storyteller and organiser based in Derbyshire, UK

David James

UK storyteller.

Taffy Thomas

Storyteller with an international reputation

Michael O'Leary

UK based storyteller.

Rob Parkinson

Kent based storyteller

Rona Barbour.

International storyteller also working as Toast Master, MC etc and in the business world.

Jenni Cargill

Australian storyteller

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

Mything Links

Worldwide links to everything you'd want re stories.

University of Pittsburgh archives

A very comprehensive site for all folklore and mythology texts.

The Storytelling Resource Centre

Another good entry point run by storyteller/magician Leslie Melville. Contains a lot of stories.

Dreamtime

Stories and background to the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime philosophy.

Sur la Lune

Fairy and folk tales discussion group

Pathe Newsreels

Choose and purchase extracts.

Foamy Custard

Folklore, mythology, cultural studies and related disciplines.

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.

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