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Story Week is Common-Unity
Story Week innovates the ways we tell stories finding a common unity.
People are sharing: some slam in big rooms, some yarn in dining rooms. Not celebrities. We close the distance between artist and audience, exchange stories in new intimate ways.
Story Week 2024 (SW24) offers a new ancient form of connection. We share stories at dinner tables. Art passed around in small circles.
Call this family style spoken word. Or talking circles, yarning or storytelling clubs. Instead of talking in circles or talking-about-reading-other-people’s-stories clubs.
When strangers come together in the shape of a family around a table to tell stories: a storytelling event becomes a 12-person metaphor buffet.
The quality of experience is amplified by the reduction in audience numbers. It’s not just conversation monopolised by the white dude speaking 89% of the time.
STORY WEEK PROGRAM
Story Week 2024 artwork – concepts: Miles Merrill, design: Rachel Stone Art & Design
