January 6, 2020 - National Storytelling Network

Special lunch connects refugees, Amish, and communities with storytelling

Diversity, Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / January 6, 2020 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

CBS 21 December 14, 2019 Lancaster City was named the 6th “Welcoming City” in the U.S. this past September. As part of the Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement program, 401 asylum seekers now call Lancaster home. And while Lancaster has many Amish families who have lived there for many generations, there’s not a lot of mixing between […]

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South Korea trains grandmothers to become professional storytellers

ABC News December 28, 2019 To foster communication between generations and enhance social participation on the part of the elderly, The Korean Studies Institute started the storytelling granny program in 2009 to train female senior citizens to tell old tales to kindergartners. “I tell over 30 stories to children in a year. I hope they