Masterclass – Oral Storytelling in Different Colours
Oral Storytelling in Different Colours an International masterclass for advanced/experienced performative storytellers
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How to promote your creativity a workshop with Peter Chand
How to promote your creativity a workshop with Peter Chand
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compagnie des Paroles
« La compagnie des paroles » exists since 2001. It carries stories but above all the dreams of its members.
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Verhalen in het Park
Namiddagprogramma – Familienamiddag Hou je ervan om samen met je kroost een verrassende voorstelling te beleven? Kom dan zeker langs in Alden Biesen op zaterdagnamiddag 9 oktober. Je kan er genieten van leuke vertellers en toffe muzikanten! ‘Worteletten met Boomkool’ vertelt het verhaal van 3 verdwaalde mensen met elk hun eigen verhaal of is er dan toch iets wat hen bindt? Vertellers Evi Rosiers, Tom Van Outryve en Meneer Zee samen met muzikanten Stijn Wastyn, Jannes De Schrijver en Kim Mees bezorgen je met hun plezierige samenspel een onvergetelijke namiddag liefst op het malse gras van het Engels park van de Landcommanderij. Vergeet je picknickdekentje niet mee te nemen! Avondprogramma – volwassenen (16+) ’s Avonds pakt Verhalen in het Park uit met ‘Verhalen die geen daglicht verdragen’ voor volwassenen (16+). Bij valavond, wanneer dag en nacht even raken, wandel je in groepjes door een feeëriek verlicht Engels park en hou je halt op enkele fraai gekozen plekjes voor een mysterieus, beklijvend of misschien wel pikant verhaal. De verhalen en stemmen van Lieve De Meyer, Evi Rosiers, Tom Van Outryve, Tom Van Mieghem, Katty Wtterwulghe en Meneer Zee kleuren de avond. Een aantal van hen ontmoet je op je pad maar wie je ziet of wat je hoort…het zal altijd goed zijn. Om deze bijzondere avond af te sluiten, geniet je samen van een verrassend einde op onze Erekoer. Trakteer jezelf op een mooie avond en kom gezellig luisteren! NB. Bij slechte weersomstandigheden kiezen we voor een indoor verhalenparcours.
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Storytelling techniques for teachers in adult education
Storytelling in Adult Education is a course about how to use oral storytelling and storytelling techniques in formal and non-formal adult learning. The course will be hosted and run in the beautiful Storytelling Castle Alden Biesen in Belgium, the home of the biggest international storytelling festival in Europe. It offers five days of presentations, workshops & performances. Storytelling and narrative teaching approaches are known to help improve verbal and communication skills in the mother tongue and/or in a foreign language. It also impacts imagination, creativity, social and civic competences, values, intercultural understanding, cultural awareness and expression. But specifically for adult education, introducing storytelling techniques offers a set of tools for inclusion. Storytelling offers bottom-up narrative art, it creates a community of co-creation, it facilitates to hear and to be heard, it lowers the threshold to art, it stimulates a constructivist meaning making process, it helps create metaphors to by-pass the unspeakable… Stories are heritage, they are gateways to heritage and to other cultures. It helps to strengthen a sense of identity and community, to raise adults’ motivation for learning to improve social and cultural participation of migrants, newcomers, refugees, socially deprived groups to stimulate the intercultural dialogue as a vehicle for the inter-generational dialogue The first part of the course pays attention to the telling of stories, tackling elements such as to tell in narrative structures, to use appropriate language, to add description, dialogue, contrast, repetition; switch to different times, places, characters; play with rhythm, silence, humour, tension … The second part offers a methodological approach for using storytelling in adult learning. Here the focus is on techniques to connect people, empower people, revive memories, develop language, translate science, unlock heritage…. The main trainer at the course will be a professional storyteller, Giovanna Conforto. Guest speakers will add specific topics to the programme. THIS COURSE IS ELIGIBLE FOR ERASMUS+ KA1-FUNDING.
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Storytelling techniques for teachers in pre and primary education
Storytelling in the Primary Classroom is a course about how to use oral storytelling and storytelling techniques in primary education. The course will be hosted and run in the beautiful Storytelling Castle Alden Biesen in Belgium, the home of the biggest international storytelling festival in Europe. It offers five days of presentations, workshops & performances. Storytelling in the classroom is much more than telling stories in the classroom. Stories, storytelling and narrative teaching approaches are known to help improve children’s verbal and communication skills in the mother tongue and/or in a foreign language. It also impacts imagination, creativity, social and civic competences, values, intercultural understanding, cultural awareness and expression. By offering subject content as a narrative, transformed into images, one improves the quality of the transfer of this content. A school where education is partly offered through storytelling approaches will have a greater appeal on pupils’ motivation because of the open atmosphere, the interactive and creative elements and the valuing of different cultures. Although this power of storytelling as an educational tool is widely recognised, storytelling as such is hardly ever included in initial teacher training curricula throughout Europe. Therefor Storytelling Castle Alden Biesen sets up a series of in-service training courses on this topic. The first part of the course pays attention to the telling of stories, tackling elements such as to tell in narrative structures, to use appropriate language, to add description, dialogue, contrast, repetition; switch to different times, places, characters; play with rhythm, silence, humour, tension … The second part offers a methodological approach for using storytelling in the classroom, for narrative teaching and learning. Here the focus is on educational guidelines and offers a set of practical exercises and tips and tricks. The main trainer at the course will be a professional storyteller, Michael Harvey. Guest speakers will add specific topics to the programme. THIS COURSE IS ELIGIBLE FOR ERASMUS+ KA1-FUNDING.
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Storytelling techniques for teachers in secondary education
Storytelling in the Secondary Classroom is a course about how to use oral storytelling and storytelling techniques in secondary education. The course will be hosted and run in the beautiful Storytelling Castle Alden Biesen in Belgium, the home of the biggest international storytelling festival in Europe. It offers five days of presentations, workshops & performances. Storytelling in the classroom is much more than telling stories in the classroom. Stories, storytelling and narrative teaching approaches are known to help improve student’s verbal and communication skills in the mother tongue and/or in a foreign language. It also impacts imagination, creativity, social and civic competences, values, intercultural understanding, cultural awareness and expression. By offering subject content as a narrative, transformed into images, one improves the quality of the transfer of this content. A school where education is partly offered through storytelling approaches will have a greater appeal on pupils’ motivation because of the open atmosphere, the interactive and creative elements and the valuing of different cultures. Although this power of storytelling as an educational tool is widely recognised, storytelling as such is hardly ever included in initial teacher training curricula throughout Europe. Therefor Storytelling Castle Alden Biesen set up a series of in-service training courses on this topic. The first part of the course pays attention to the telling of stories, tackling elements such as to tell in narrative structures, to use appropriate language, to add description, dialogue, contrast, repetition; switch to different times, places, characters; play with rhythm, silence, humour, tension … The second part offers a methodological approach for using storytelling in the classroom, for narrative teaching and learning. Here the focus is on educational guidelines and offers a set of practical exercises and tips and tricks. The main trainer at the course will be a professional storyteller, Nell Phoenix. Guest speakers will add specific topics to the programme. THIS COURSE IS ELIGIBLE FOR ERASMUS+ KA1- FUNDING.
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FEST Online Forum #6 – Competence model for Oral Storytelling ‘Storytelling in 8 Colours’
In this session Veva Gerard will take you on a journey through the newly developed Competence model for oral Storytelling ‘Storytelling in 8 Colours’.
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FEST Virtual Conference 2020
Unfortunately the FEST 2020 Conference in Bursa was cancelled because of the COVID-19 outbreak and the national measures taken to fight this virus.
FEST would like to thank SEIBA International Storytelling Center for all the hard work they put in the preparation of the 2020 conference.
We can’t meet in person but that doesn’t mean we can’t meet at all, that is why FEST decided to take our yearly international conference for oral storytelling online.
The 2020 FEST VIRTUAL CONFERENCE will take place 24 -26 June 2020
