We hope everyone is staying well in these challenging times. While we can't meet in person yet, there has been an explosion of storytelling online. Many of our members are now embracing Zoom, Facebook Live and Youtube to share their stories. It is a very different experience telling a story to a screen rather than a live audience, perhaps it is then that we truly realise just how integral the audience response is to the art of oral storytelling.

Until we can share stories eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart, here are links to various online storytelling events
Storytellers NSW Zoom Story Circles
FairyTale Society Online Conference,
"Virtual Storytelling Conference: Storytelling in a World Shaped by Coronavirus-19."
National Storytelling Network Virtual Online Conference- details coming soon USA
Storytellers Online

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Zoom Storytelling for Storytellers NSW Members

Story Swap
7.30 Thursday, 28th May
Please join us on Zoom for a one-hour session of sharing stories, our theme this month "All Creatures Great and Small" You can just sit back with a cup of tea or glass of wine and listen to the stories or you can tell a tale. Stories should be no longer than 7minutes. Please email Lindy and indicate whether you wish to tell a story or just listen and you will be sent the zoom link to join us info@storytellersnsw.org.au

Storytelling Circles Online
Our members Storytelling Circles have also gone online

Inner West Sydney
Contact: Liz Locksley liz@thrivestory.life

Blue Mountains Circle-
Contact: Kiran Shah kiranstoryteller@gmail.com

Northern Beaches-
Contact: Christine Carlton storyaus@gmail.com

Lunch and Tales going virtual soon

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"Virtual Storytelling Conference:
Storytelling in a World Shaped by Coronavirus-19."

This Conference would go for 24 hours -starting on Saturday 16th May 2020,
9am Eastern USA time / 6:30pm India time.

Presented by the World Storytelling Institute, in association with the USA's National Storytelling Network, and others.

Conference Introduction

Conference Poster

Conference Schedule

Links to "Greetings to the Conference" from
1) a Business/Organizational Storyteller in South Africa, and
2) a Storyteller in New Zealand,
are here.

This is a free event, being done as Public Service. Via Zoom.

To register -- and to attend as much of the Conference as one might like -- please send an email (including one's name and general location) to
virtualstorytellingconference@gmail.com
World Storytelling Institute Alwarpet, Chennai
Dr Eric Miller, Director
(PhD in Folklore, MSc in Psychology),
www.storytellinginstitute.org
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Bookings are now open for the 2020 Australian Fairy Tale Society Virtual Conference!

This will be a conference unlike any other because we will be able to have people from all over Australia - all over the world! - attend our Zoom conference. We really couldn't have chosen a more appropriate theme than "Magic Mirrors: the seen and the unseen" for such a visual interaction.

We will not be having an 8 hour/1 day conference, all sitting in front of our screens. Instead we will take advantage of being on the long weekend and have 6 sessions over the 3 days: 9.30-11.30am AEST and 2-4pm AEST on Saturday 6, Sunday 7, and Monday 8 June.

All this for a flat rate of $30, about a third of the usual cost, for nearly a third more content.

We are so looking forward to having our "biggest" conference ever. In the words of Robin Williams' Genie: "Phenomenal cosmic powers! Itty-bitty living space!"

https://www.cognitoforms.com/AustralianFairyTaleSociety/AustralianFairyTaleSocietyConference 2020

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Just a few Storytellers Online

Nick Hennessey: storyteller, singer harpist (live tonight) UK
https://www.facebook.com/nickhennessey

Devil's Violin with Daniel Morden UK (traditional tales)
https://www.facebook.com/thedevilsviolin/

Jeanne Robertson USA (personal stories)
https://www.youtube.com/user/JeanneRobertson

Locally

Jackie Kerin: Kamishibai VIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpC35HkZE4s

Anna Jarrett https://vimeo.com/409752222

Holly Bidwell: children's stories ACT
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX4K-1vCD2jDqavJG2-YUzQ

We are constantly sharing storytelling content to our facebook page so like us and visit often!
https://www.facebook.com/storytellersnsw/

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