Annual Conference
FEST’s Annual Conference unites storytellers and cultural professionals from across Europe to exchange ideas, explore new trends, and celebrate the power of storytelling.
Events
FEST hosts year-round events, workshops, and networking sessions that connect storytellers and foster collaboration across borders.
Research
FEST supports research on storytelling’s role in culture, education, and society, collaborating with institutions to deepen knowledge and impact.
The art of storytelling
Storytelling is an ancient art, the primaeval art, the basis of all communication, imagination and creativity. It has strong bonds with literature, with popular/folk culture, with heritage. Itis a homage to the mother tongue, to foreign languages, to the intercultural dialogue.
Narratives are everywhere, in many artistic and socio-cultural sectors the words storytelling and narratives pop up. All have ‘a story to tell’. In this respect oral storytelling as ‘the master of narratives’ has a lot to offer to these media and sectors, and they, in return, offer new carriers and interfaces for storytellers.
WHAT OUR MEMBERS SAY ABOUT FEST
"Live your life like a story, so when you go, people will have a good story to tell"
Angela Sidney
“A storyteller does not tell you what to think. A storyteller gives you questions to think upon”
Brandon Sanderson
“The shortest distance between two people is a story”
“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact it’s the other way around.”
Terry Pratchett
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
Robert McKee
“Thou shalt not” is soon forgotten but “once upon a time” lasts forever.
Philip Pullman
“Storytelling is interactive, immediate and very personal, a negotiation between this teller and this audience at this time and in this place, never to be duplicated.”
R.C. Roney
“Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others.”
Peter Forbes
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
Brandon Sanderson
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
Philip Pullman
“A story in a book is like a violin in a museum. It is nice to look at, but only when someone plays with it does it come alive”
Daniel Morden
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