The glory of storytelling
Stories are entrusted to storytellers by the elders. But these storytellers are not meant to repeat the narrative verbatim; they are expected to understand these stories and, through them, reflect on what the community needs to hear at any given moment. This temporal gathering, both in and around a story, acknowledges the personal subjectivities al... See more
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
the story arts have become humanity’s prime source of inspiration, as it seeks to order chaos and gain insight into life.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Storytelling has that same fundamentally religious function – it fuses the disparate, gives us shape, and in doing so instils in us quiet.