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  • Daiva Ivanauskaitė Brown and Total Unity

    Daiva Ivanauskaitė Brown and Total Unity
    2026/08/20
    Daiva Ivanauskaitė-Brown is a professional Lithuanian storyteller based in Glasgow, whose background in history and heritage shapes her rich repertoire of Lithuanian and Scottish folklore and its' weaving with biographical tales. Known for her expressive body language, energetic delivery, and traditional Lithuanian singing, Daiva creates vivid, immersive worlds centered on womanhood, empathy, resilience, and the deep connection between people and nature. She performs widely across Europe and the UK at major book and storytelling festivals, museums, and community spaces. As a performance storyteller and a socially engaged practitioner listed in the Scottish Storytelling Forum storytellers' directory and Scottish Book Trust authors' register, Daiva works with The Village Storytelling Centre and regularly collaborates with other arts, culture and education organizations in Scotland and Lithuania bringing untold and lesser-heard voices into the spotlight. www.daivathestoryteller.com‍ ‍
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    49 分
  • Nana Tomova and Holding Vicarious Hope

    Nana Tomova and Holding Vicarious Hope
    2026/08/06
    Nana Tomova is a traditional oral storyteller. She was born in Bulgaria where the Black Sea meets the Old Mountain and carries in her bones old tales of wise women and healing herbs; of golden maidens and winged serpents, stretching back to ancient Thracian times. Nana has told stories around the fire, and under the stars; in communities and women's circles; in forests and by the water’s edge. Her story walks have been featured in the Guardian and in Coast magazine.Holding a deep respect for the human experience, galvanised by her work as mental health pharmacist, she has built a bridge between the types of medicine people need. Nana regularly tells tales on her podcast, The Story Apothecary, dispensing stories as medicine. Her stories weave together elements of nature-regenerative folklore, rewilding and women's voices.Nana has studied under a tradition bearer of a women's oral storytelling tradition for the past seven years. She is currently undertaking a Masters level programme in Applied Storytelling. Nana has performed as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival and the International Scottish Storytelling Festival. She is the author of Bulgarian Folk Tales. Nana lives in the Scottish Highlands.Her Substack is https://substack.com/@nanatomovaInstagram is https://www.instagram.com/nana.tomova/ Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/NanaTomovaStoryteller/ The book can be found at: https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/bulgarian-folk-tales/Website www.nanatomova.com
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    53 分
  • Diep Tran and Keeping the Inner Child Alive

    Diep Tran and Keeping the Inner Child Alive
    2026/07/23
    Diep Tran is a language teacher, researcher, and storyteller. She earned her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2021. She has had more than 13 years of diverse teaching experience in Vietnam and New Zealand. Diep Tran is the creator of Sun and Moon Stories, a bilingual storytelling channel on Youtube. As an English teacher, she believes in the power of storytelling in teaching language to young learners. Diep Tran runs courses for teachers and parents on how to teach and connect with children through stories.
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    52 分
  • Shilpa Mehta and Sharing Living Wisdom

    Shilpa Mehta and Sharing Living Wisdom
    2026/07/09
    Shilpa Mehta is an educator, author and a storyteller based in India. She has a professional journey spanning over two decades in the education space teaching MBA and BBA before transitioning to her inherent love for storytelling. She turned into a storyteller because of her passion and inherent love for stories as she deeply believes in the magic of storytelling as an excellent medium to quickly connect and engage with people and finds stories as an empowering tool. She is an avid listener, collector and performer of stories. She is a certified storyteller from Kathalaya International Academy of Storytelling. She loves to explore the world of storytelling through performing and writing. As a bilingual storyteller, she tries to reach out to people by exposing them to a wide range of genres of stories through her YouTube channel ‘Shilpa Story Rack’. She loves to explore the world of storytelling through performing and writing and look at ways and means to integrate stories with life. She believes in stories that inspire social change, give voice to the unheard and make the unseen noticed. She has authored academic books for children. Her fictional woven tales, both in Hindi and English, have found their way in various anthologies. She has won accolades at various writing platforms. She has performed at various literary and storytelling events on various national and global platforms like Sydney International Storytelling Festival, Korea International Storytelling Festival, Federation ofAsian Storytellers , Gaatha Mumbai International Storytelling Festival, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Jaipur Literature Outreach Programme, Pune International Literary Festival , Udaipur Tales , Chennai Storytelling Festival, and many more for diverse audience.She frequently contributes to "Talking Stories Radio", East London radio. She is also a featured storyteller on "Obo"- a story mobile for audio stories. She is the reading champion for storytelling sessions with Pratham books under the 'One day, One story' campaign in Jaipur to help inculcate reading habits in students with her read-aloud sessions.She facilitates storytelling sessions and workshops in school and college.Her contributions to the field of storytelling and writing have been celebrated through various awards and achievements.AWARDS· Women Achiever’s Award by Rajasthan Chambers Of Commerce and Industries-Young Women Entreprenuers,2025· Women Inspiring Award by NHZ in Jaipur,2025· Featured in Her Hustle e-magazine, March 2025· Inspirational Women Clan Award, for inspirational Storyteller,2024· Featured by WeWomen, on Women’s Day,2024· Honoured by Vishisht lifestyle on International Women's Day 2024· Top Mompreneur Clan E-AWARD 2023 by THEMOMMACLAN.· Women Achiever's Award for performance Storytelling in Jaipur, 2023· Influence Star Award by Karyashala foundation· Featured by WeWomen_justblogit on women entrepreneurship day 2023She looks to bring joy and laughter to others' lives through storytelling and has a purpose to spread stories to keep the oral tradition alive.Head to her socials on-https://linktr.ee/shilpastoryrackInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/shilpastoryrackYouTube:https://youtube.com/@shilpastoryrackFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087144351429
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    51 分
  • Angharad Wynne and mapping landscapes

    Angharad Wynne and mapping landscapes
    2026/06/25
    Angharad is an advocate for humanity’s generative connection with the more than human world. She carries the indigenous wisdom tradition of the British Isles and weaves it with ecology, philosophy, creativity and contemporary animism practice. As a ceremonialist, teacher, author, speaker and Cyfarwydd (storyteller), she explores the territory of reclaiming our deep humanity and re-membering a reciprocal relationship with the land, the seen and unseen. Angharad runs a small organisation called Dreaming the Land, an invitation through story, myth and adventures in landscape to connect to our deep humanity and the land on which we stand. She is a member of the Wisdom Keepers collective and creator of Dadeni, a programme that explores the native spiritual traditions of Britain. She is a founder of ‘Animate Earth’, an international animism collective of teachers, facilitators, thinkers, scientists and writers. She regularly speaks at events and festivals across Europe on these and related matters. Her first English language book, Wise Women – Myths and Folklore in Celebration of Older Women, a collaboration with Dr Sharon Blackie was published by Virago in October 2024.www.angharadwynne.comdreamingtheland.comInsta: @dreamingthelandFB: https://www.facebook.com/dreamingthelandWhere people can add the word they’re yearning for to describe connection and relatedness with the natural world: www.dreamingtheland.com/wordsBOOK: Wise Women, Myths and Stories for Midlife and Beyond by Sharon Blackie and Angharad Wynne, published by Virago, 2024, available from bookshops or direct from : www.virago.co.ukANIMISM:animate-earth.org
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  • Elisa Pearmain and Healing with Stories

    Elisa Pearmain and Healing with Stories
    2026/06/11
    Elisa Pearmain has been telling stories professionally for over 37 years. Her performances have been called, “Dance Poetry.” She is the award-winning author of two collections of world wisdom tales including, Doorways to the Soul: 52 Wisdom Tales from around the World (1998), and Once Upon a Time: Storytelling to Teach Character and Prevent Bullying (2006). Her double CD, Forgiveness: Telling Our Stories in New Ways also won a Storytelling World Honor Award in 2014. Elisa is also a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with a specialty in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and Forgiveness. She has been leading storytelling workshops and narrative-based groups for over 30 years and was formerly an adjunct professor at Lesley University teaching storytelling in the curriculum both on and off campus. In her spare time, she is a climate activist who led the charge to ban single use plastic bags, and Styrofoam in her town. Her storytelling resources can be found on www.wisdomtales.com. ‍ ‍
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    44 分
  • Jay Leeming and a Spiritual Connection

    Jay Leeming and a Spiritual Connection
    2026/05/28
    Jay Leeming is a performance storyteller adept at bringing ancient myths and stories alive through the power of the spoken word. A regular performer in theaters, schools, libraries and National Parks, he is the creator of the Crane Bag podcast, the author of three books of poetry and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. More information about his work as well as recordings of his performances of the Mahābhārata, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” numerous Norse myths and the Odyssey can be found at www.JayLeeming.com.
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    53 分
  • Wangari Grace and Nurturing the Art

    Wangari Grace and Nurturing the Art
    2026/05/14
    Wangari the Storyteller is a Kenyan Performance Storyteller and Writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. She believes in the power of stories to make us reflect on life past, present and future. Wangari’s performances are highly participatory with the stories woven with dance, chant, song and other performance delicacies.Website: https://wangarithestoryteller.co.ke/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WangariTheStoryteller/
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    56 分