Preserving the Beautiful Tradition of Storytelling
This autumn Singapore's museums and libraries will turn into locations for unique Festival of Storytelling. 13 storytelling sessions (each 1 hour long) will take place within 3,5 months (3 September - 19 November). Professional award-winning storytellers, as well as amateurs from Singapore, Korea and Malaysia will take you into the magical world of fairy tales.
The culmination of the Festival will be 2 days of storytelling marathon. On 26 November in Woodlands Regional Library and on 3 December in the the Asian Civilisations Museum you'll get a chance to enjoy extraordinary interactive storytelling sessions from 11am till 8.30pm. The stories will be told in 4 languages: English, Mandarin, Malay & Tamil.
The Tellers
From Singapore
- Chuah Ai Lin – a professional teller, with a particular interest in nature/conservation stories
- Carol Cao, a volunteer teller (Mandarin) at Tampines Library
- Shalni Doshi – has told in libraries and schools
- Roger Jenkins – Winner, Best Storyteller Award, Kanoon International Storytelling Festival (Iran 2013)
- Karen Lee – storyteller, performing in the Singapore Writers Festival 2015
- Kiran Shah – founding President of the Storytelling Association and a key member leading the revival of storytelling as an art form from the late 1990’s
- Sheila Wee - a key member leading the revival of storytelling as an art form from the late 1990’s
- and members of The Story Line : Louisa G. H. Ong, Chitra Panchapakesan,
Pat Sharma & Yvonne Inglin, Millie Tan, Srividhya Venkat, Shanta Subramaniam and Rosie Ho. - Republic Polytechnic students: these seven enthusiasts were part of a programme mentored by Roger Jenkins at RP’s Reflections Arts Festival in October
- Gophi Nathan is a freelance Mime who first worked with roger in Hi! Theatre in the 1990’s. They have told together – notably in the 2013 FYI season at The Esplanade.
International Tellers
- Ana Sousa Gavin originally from Portugal but a Singaporean PR since 2008, who regularly performs in schools and conducts training programmes for the NBDCS
- Alice Bianchi (Italy/UK)
- Junko Araki, a Japanese Mum who brought her son to see a Story Line performance and promptly volunteered to help share a Japanese story!
- Judy Lee is from Korea and has attended several storytelling workshops and volunteered as a teller in her daughter’s school
Musicians
- Vivienne Wong
- BronnzAge Gamelan, led by Joyce Teo, is a band of gamelan enthusiasts
Age
3–12
Price
Free
Telephone number
+656332 7798
Links
Address
Singapore1 Empress Place Singapore River, South S179555
How to get there?
By public transport: The ACM is a 5-minute walk from Raffles Place MRT station (Exit H).
By car: Can be reached via a road behind Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, off Fullerton Road near Anderson Bridge.
Parking: At the basement car park of the New Parliament House, at Six Battery Road and at One Fullerton across from the Fullerton Hotel.