In order to carry on traditional tales into the future we need to understand how the oral tradition works, how stories evolve across centuries, and what it is that we want to pass on through them to the next generation. This workshop focuses on the skills, tools, and repertoire of traditional tellers and how they can be applied to contemporary contexts such as stage performance, organized events, and digital storytelling. We will also touch on the topics of representation, ethics, and copyright.

Bio:
Csenge Virág Zalka is a storyteller and author from Hungary. She travels the world, telling folktales, myths and epics in three languages. She holds an MA in Storytelling and a PhD in Culture Studies; her area of research is the intersection of traditional storytelling and contemporary popular culture.
http://www.zalkacsenge.hu/

Stepping into online ST is stepping away from tradition, the little voice in the head whispered. Or is it? Could this be a way forward for our art? Blasting through screens and into the world?
With 1001+ recorded stories, Storytime has its ideas of their own to share. Join us for a fascinating talk of; the WHY´s, and HOW´s, of choice of material, demands of the teller, technology, bling-bling, editing and maybe even marketing.
https://fortaelletid.dk/

Bio:
Kasper Sørensen has been a storyteller for 29 years. He has extensive experience in teaching storytelling within the private and public sector in Denmark and beyond the Danish borders, at more than 2.300 events. He is founder of BestTellers and Fortælletid/Storytime, an online portal with more than a thousand tales.

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Bent Hansen - Ollerup Frilæreskole http://fabulatoriet.dk/index.html

In this workshop we will take you through three of our Hans Christian Andersen learning tours. By exploring these learning tours, we will introduce different methods and means, that we use in our communication and teachings about (or with) Andersen.
The three learning tours are:
“Theatre tour”, “A garden fairy tale” and “Andersen’s perspective”. We will talk about the written fairy tale’s transformation into vivid storytelling and this transformation’s importance when you want children to discover their own creating abilities. We go through the different positions, which our communicators deliberately and consciously perform when hosting school classes, to facilitate an experience, that matches our ambition.
Furthermore, we touch on how Andersen’s unique way storytelling is turned into teaching and storytelling methods in several ways in each of our learning tours.
Much of this is introduced through one of our most important teaching techniques “philosophical dialogue”, which is then demonstrated firsthand.

Bio:
Rikke Jahn Svinding, Artistic Manager, Ville Vau, H.C. Andersens Museum.
As head of the artistic content Rikke facilitates the overall experience when guests are visiting Ville Vau in H. C. Andersen Museum. She has a background as an actress and a performer and have refined the work with art and children within the frame of Andersen since 2008.

Mette Kiilerich, Curator at the children and education’s department at Odense City Museums.
Mette Kiilerich has a Master’s degree in Culture and Communication. She is the lead developer of all the new learning tours at the new Hans Christian Andersen Museum. Mette specializes in using Hans Christian Andersen’s unique take on storytelling when creating learning experiences for children.

Our times are challenging and demanding much of us. Limitations have come into our lives in completely new ways. In particular, the close encounter between human beings is being curtailed, whether through masks, social distancing or creating a climate of fear. What is the role of the storyteller here? Maybe we are needed more than ever to bring presence and wisdom into the world through our stories and ability to gather. 

Storytelling is a social artform, there must be at least one listener and one teller. You can´t tell a story to a wall. This already is good medicine. A healing imagination lives in all of us and can be accessed through the rich picture language of wonder tales and story. How do we open the doors to a greater seeing? We will hear some examples of healing story, have time for reflection, and through simple story exercises explore how storytelling and appreciative listening can create space for intuitions and insights to arise, where old problems are framed in new ways, freeing up the future. All are welcome!

Bio:

Inger Lise Oelrich is a theatre director, educator and storyteller who has worked with creativity, story and existential questions in a broad spectrum of areas, such as intercultural, education, healing and business. She is the founder of ALBA Nordic Healing Story Alliance 2005, has led symposia, workshops and trainings in applied storytelling and developed story methods for peacework in the Iraq and Syrian Dialogue Meetings under FBA in Sweden. Her latest book is THE NEW STORY - Storytelling as a Pathway to Peace. Also in Danish: GYLDNE FUGL - Eventyr for børn og voksne.

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Charlotte Øster - Fortællerhuset https://www.fortellerhuset.no/charlotte

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Aske Ebbesen https://askeebbesen.dk/