Dear Storytellers, After Rudyard Kipling’s If , Imagine and Human Rights Day , here we go to the next step. As many of you well know, World Storytelling Day is celebrated every year on 20 March. In 2017 the theme is transformation . How writing and telling stories may transform the world in a better place? Tell us in a short video (maximum 1 minute, no sound, no rumors and no subtitles, please) speaking in your first language, sending also the speech’s text with English translation to this email . Deadline : March 5, 2017 Let’s make peace through stories! Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher