By Limor Shiponi It has happened that I’ve participated more than once in an event outside Israel, where people introduced me as, “please welcome Limor, she’s from Israel and she’s going to tell us Jewish stories”. My immediate inner reaction was, “hell not” which I didn’t speak out loud of course, but went on telling …
By Limor Shiponi Storytelling is getting into the hands of demagogues tapping into individual’s dreams for success, power, riches and happiness. Here are two examples I’ve cropped off twitter today: ‘Power to the people’ attached to ‘how we will control’ with the following hashtags makes one think that storytelling is part of a dominating game …
By Limor Shiponi This is it: you can’t learn storytelling through reading books, articles, blogs or tweets. You need to tell stories to people face-to-face for years, say around 7-10 years before you can even call yourself a storyteller, there is no quick-fix, there are no express-benefits. Being a true storyteller and extracting the human …
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By Limor Shiponi The web is flooded these days with various constellations calling themselves storytelling with an exclamation mark. For the purpose of catching our attention or preferable positioning you’ll find them wrapping the word storytelling with fancy buzz words, fantastic adjectives or cross-breeding desired titles. Reading a wealth of the material, it’s reaching a …
By Limor Shiponi No, haven’t seen Avatar yet. I will, I want to. Just mentioning it because it creates a perfect example for what I intended to write about in this post – story in storytelling. Going back to an earlier post, the one with the Xes. Here is a quote: …Merriam-Webster. Here is the …