By Limor Shiponi The real question, posed by a someone who arrived to “check out” the possibility of joining an intermediate storytelling course, sounded slightly different – I’m a storyteller. What do I need to improve on?!!! I had a bold answer which I didn’t speak-up. Instead, I used my Jewish birth-right to answer a …
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By Limor Shiponi The above claim isn’t only about the loads of misleading information, irrelevant and damaging applications the web is stuffed with; my deeper claim is that you can learn about storytelling on the net, but you can’t learn storytelling. The medium, together with the devices we use to facilitate it, aren’t fit for …
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By Limor Shiponi We opened the session with a “pulse check”, meaning – I wanted to know about ideas arriving during the week, reflections or anything else that might be relevant to the process. Reading and listening opened up a new set of pictures for me. They are different than what I had in mind …
By Limor Shiponi David Ben-Gurion is such a character. The scope of his actions, time and place in history, the background story, his personality and the mixed feelings people have about him, all make his character just too complex to tell a single story about. The only people who sound authentic talking about him are …
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By Limor Shiponi There’s this book about a boy who received a book about a place in the real world which he enters (the boy in the book who received the book) is search of a legendary creature. I’m going to tell the story about that boy (the boy in the book who received the …