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 art and social movements...

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...

Much of the creative process involved with Parallel Narratives is influenced by Applied Theater. Applied Theater encourages inquiry about a stopping block or issue. It employs a practice of questioning, discussing, and addressing an issue, "...as opposed to focusing...

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 convened...

"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 ourselves...

"My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want lie to themselves." Herman Hesse