Limor Shiponi

If no one is in front you, does storytelling exist?

5 days, 100 participants, 200 sessions, everything conceivable and the rest you can read here. Beyond that – CWA is an event worth visiting at least once with the potential of becoming addicted. As a listener the event is unique as the provider of real interest throughout five days – attending sessions, meeting people, taking [...]

I’m quite fed up reading I’m a liar. It’s not that anyone accused me personally but the general word on the market is that storytellers are liars. “Even Mike Daisey…” Mr. Daisey isn’t a storyteller but an actor who made a big mistake. What mistake? If the drama is about something that happened in reality, [...]

Someone just asked me how come I don’t stumble on my words/make mistakes. Here’s my reply: We stumble on our words/make mistakes only if we’re not in the storytelling. If I’m in full attention of what’s happening in the story, if I let the events effect me, if I’m aware of everything going on in [...]

Some time ago I took leave from this blog promising to return and and ask for help with writing my next book. The first one ‘Stories at Work’ was published in Hebrew during 2006. Turns out I’m not asking you to help with my second book but with the third… the second is in the [...]

Just back from the annual story-night event at Holon Mediatheque, telling a single hour-long story to a group of 50 aged 9-12. Again and again I find storytelling to be such an amazing art. No props, no tech, no screens, no apps, visuals, transmedia, non-linear, audio, video, cloud or brands. Just a single woman, telling [...]

“Go there early in the morning” was the recommendation, “around 06:30″. We took her word seriously – she being a very good friend, although going out that early when you’re a tourist seemed strange. We headed to Lumpini Park cutting through crisp morning air. Early traders were already tending their tiny food carts, meticulously sorting [...]