Please note that this is an overdue event

Woodlands Library ALL DAY Storytelling Festival



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

Singapore
900 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