The Art of Storytelling - Meetings with meaning
As part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, Fortellerfestivalen - The Norwegian Storytelling Festival invites all past, present and future audiences to a conversation about oral storytelling in 2024.
What can oral storytelling offer us today? Why do we tell stories and what stories do we want to tell? Where do we find meaning and inspiration for our stories?
Lina Teir, Artistic Director of The Norwegian Storytelling Festival, leads a personal conversation with three artists from the festival programme who will share their perspective on contemporary storytelling. With Milda Varnauskaitė (LT), Martin Krane Pedersen (NO) and Raymond Wilson (UK).
The conversation will be in English.
All festival events at Tøyen library on Saturday 16 March are free. This event is drop-in only. No reservations required.
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Lina Teir is a Finland-Swedish artist and educator working with storytelling, music, drama and theatre. She is the artistic director of Fortellerfestivalen - The Norwegian Storytelling Festival in Oslo and is also the founder of the storytelling organisation GLÖD in Vasa, Finland. As a storyteller Lina Teir is specialized in working with life stories, site specific storytelling, musical storytelling and audience involvement. Lina Teir has also worked with storytelling and music as artivism in the human rights campaign “We see you” in Finland and is using her voice to tell and sing about social issues that she sees.
Martin Krane Pedersen is an actor, director and storyteller. He has a BA in Drama and Theatre Communication and a masters’ in Theatre and Society from Oslo Metropolitan University. His storytelling performance, En Tvangsarbeiders Ukjente Historie will be shown at SALT on Sunday March 17th, as part of Fortellerfestivalen.
Raymond Wilson is a working-class, LGBTQ+-identifying creative and environmental-educator from Clydebank in Scotland. An award-nominated, multi-disciplinary artist with experience in acting, writing, and music, his work explores the intersections between the natural world, spirituality, and the Scottish working-class. His storytelling show I Hope Your Flowers Bloom will be performed at Nordic Black Theatre on Friday March 15th.
Milda Varnauskaitė is an international storyteller, storytelling coach, curator, and producer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Her style fuses stories from the Baltic region with life experiences and insights, often through the lens of comedy. She tells original interpretations of folk tales, fiction, autofiction, and historical pieces. Milda teaches storytelling at Vilnius University, works as a storytelling coach at the National Museum of Lithuania, and is the founder of the Baltic Storytelling Centre. Milda’s performance Her Daughter can be seen at SALT on Sunday March 17th.