A Conversation on Medicines

A Conversation on Medicines

TD: We’re so inundated by text right now. Right? It’s funny because sometimes I find myself sounding like I’m anti-literacy or something which is not true at all. But I think every time period requires a different medicine and there’s a lot of...
Meet up with Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab

Meet up with Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab

Facilitated by Lance Weiler, the director of Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (aka Columbia DSL), storytelling practitioners from a dozen countries met this afternoon for an informal dialogue about Parallel Narratives. Columbia DSL is a...
Chennai Storytelling Festival 2020

Chennai Storytelling Festival 2020

2/11/20 As part of the annual Chennai Storytelling Festival, international storytellers convene via video conference to discuss “Storytelling in the World Today” Organized by Eric Miller from the World Storytelling Institute, storytellers from 4 continents...
Walter Benjamin on “Having Counsel”

Walter Benjamin on “Having Counsel”

“In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers. But if today “having counsel” is beginning to have an old-fashioned ring, this is because the communicability of experience is decreasing. In consequence we have no counsel either for...