Free Storytelling Festival highlighting Singaporean tellers and targets a family audience
It's here: free full day festival! 16 storytellers running multiple sessions all day.
There will be three stages or sessions running at each venue simultaneously, virtually throughout the day from 11am -8.30pm, offering 11.5 hours of storytelling! You, are free to move from room-to-room (between sessions!) You can tailor your experience to suit your interests.
Families, children, anyone who loves a good story
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
Credit: Image from 398.2 Storytelling Festival Singapore and Woodlands Regional Library Facebook
Age
4+
Price
Free
Links
Address
Singapore900 South Woodlands Drive #01-03, Singapore 730900
How to get there?
Nearest MRT: Woodlands
Bus Interchange: Woodlands
Buses: 169, 178, 187, 856, 858, 900, 900A, 901, 902, 903, 904, 911, 912, 913, 925, 925C, 926, 950, 960, 961, 961C, 962, 963, 963E, 963R, 964, 965, 966, 96