Storytellers for Peace

World Storytelling Day 2018 Theme: “ Wise Fools ” By Storytellers for Peace As many of you well know, World Storytelling Day is celebrated every year around March 20. In 2018 the theme is Wise Fools . After Rudyard Kipling’s If , Imagine , Human Rights Day 2016 , World Storytelling Day 2017 , and International Day of Nonviolence 2017 , here is the new clip from Storytellers for Peace. Ten artists from all over the world tell their stories about the Wise Fools speaking in their first language (with English subtitles):   Artists and stories in order of appearance : A Spanish proverb says that "Of poets and madmen, we all have a little". And perhaps these two qualities, madness and poetry, are not two qualities different from each other. There is a brotherhood, a fusion, communicating vessels that connect creativity, storytelling, poetry, madness, the breaking of conventions and happiness. Baudelaire said the genius is the childhood recovered...

World Storytelling Day 2017 “ Transformation ” After Rudyard Kipling’s If , Imagine and Human Rights Day , here we are to the fourth video from the Storytellers for Peace group. World Storytelling Day is an event celebrated every year around the world near March 20. This year the theme is transformation . So, we tried to answer this question: how writing and telling stories may transform the world in a better place? Twelve storytellers from ten different countries tell their responses (with English subtitles): In order of appearance: Stories help us grow up. They heal us and heal wounds. Fairy tales have taught us that throughout life we can meet fierce wolves. And some wolves will be able to knock down many houses, but not all. And that even some wolves can burn in the fireplace. The stories help us to face the fears. And above all, stories break boundaries . Beatriz Montero (Spain) Once upon a time, a library, the Naus room, a palace, a children's ...