27 Setember - 5 October 2010 Celebrating Life! festival
25 September – 5 October 2011: Celebrating Transformation! festival
30 September – 30 October: “Kultainen koskelo” exhibition at Koroinen café

Storytelling festivals will feature professional European storytellers who will share their stories in schools, libraries, cafés and literature festivals. The narrators include Suse Weisse (Germany), Claire Hewitt (Scotland), Judy Paterson (Scotland) and Georgiana Keable (Norway) together with storytellers from all over the Nordic region and the Sami area. The festivals also features both well-known and as-yet undiscovered storytellers from Turku.
Schools will participate through Story Harvests. Schoolchildren will have the chance to explore storytelling and teachers will be provided with reference material, with the goal of publishing a storytelling book for the 2011 Turku International Book Fair.
Turku will also host an outdoor storytelling event that brings together the entire multilingual city as well as a Nordic championships event on storytelling. There will also be an opening of exhibition Golden Merganser in the Koroinen Café. The events will be produced by the production company Koti cooperative, together with Sydkustens landskapsförbund Association.

The tradition of Finnish storytelling comes alive and rises to new heights as “Nordiska Röster – Nordic Voices” brings new and lively storytelling to Turku and the Åboland region.
Storytelling festivals will feature professional European storytellers who will share their stories in schools, libraries, cafés and literature festivals. The narrators include Suse Weisse (Germany), Claire Hewitt (Scotland), Judy Paterson (Scotland) and Georgiana Keable (Norway) together with storytellers from all over the Nordic region and the Sami area. The festival also features both well-known and as-yet undiscovered storytellers from Turku.
Schools will participate through Story Harvests. Schoolchildren will have the chance to explore storytelling and teachers will be provided with reference material, with the goal of publishing a storytelling book for the 2011 Turku International Book Fair.
Turku will also host an outdoor storytelling event that brings together the entire multilingual city as well as a Nordic championships event on storytelling. The events will be produced by the production company Koti cooperative, together with Sydkustens landskapsförbund Association.

Spring, storytelling clubs once per month
25 September – 5 October: Nordic Voices 2011 – Celebrating Transformation! festival
30 September – 30 October: “Kultainen koskelo” exhibition on Sami storytelling at Koroinen café

http://www.turku2011.fi

Story tellers
Finnland: Reidar Wasenius and Sirkka Huhta Branch
Swedish: Pelle Olsson, and Joanna Häggblom
Norway: Øystein Vestre and Tomas Kinck Wold
Denmark: André Andersen and Kasper Sørensen
Iceland: Berglind Ósk Agnarsdóttir and Ragnheiður Þóra Grímsdóttir

Complete Program

Story Cafe on the last Tuesday of every month in Selma, & Nils, Brahenkatu 1 B.

Story Cafe HAS an open stage for everyone to Share One's stories.

Celebrating the Transformation Kickoff!
Nordic Story Slam on September 24th at 8 pm.

Scandinavian Storytelling contest.

Bar Dynamo Linnankatu 7, Turku
Celebrating the Transformation: Sunday 25th September

Nordgruppen-networking seminar under theme "Storytelling Without Borders"

Gillesgården
Celebrating the Transformation: Monday 26th September

Story Harvest tour in Turku School District, 2-3 * 45 minute story sessions, 2-3 storytellers Fri School

Storytelling in public venues in the evening.
Celebrating the Transformation: Tuesday 27th September

Story Harvest School tour in Turku.

Storytelling in public venues in the evening.
Celebrating the Transformation: Wednesday 28th September

Story Harvest School tour in Turku.

Storytelling in public venues in the evening.
Celebrating the Transformation: Friday 30th September

Nordic Voices at the Book Fair!
Celebrating the Transformation: Saturday 1st November

Nordic Voices at the Book Fair.
Golden merganser Story Promenade:
Promenade performance, based on the old tale, Sami, combines Storytelling With Other forms of art / performance. The whole family event is an "urban safari", WCG weaves together magical and mundane, the sound of the Nordic walking sticks gives the rhythm for a yoik.
Celebrating the Transformation: Sunday 2nd November

Nordic Voices at the Book Fair!
Celebrating the Transformation: Friday 3rd October

Story Harvest School Tour

Storytelling workshops in the evening:
Story Harvest Workshop for Teachers
How to Become a Storyteller?
Celebrating the Transformation: Tuesday 4th November

Story Harvest Evaluating seminar in Aboa Vetus.

Transformation Stories! -Fest at 7 pm in the Aboa Vetus.

http://www.koti-teatteri.fi/nordicvoices/

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