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FEST – Federation for European Storytelling was invites the international storytelling community to the FEST2023 annual conference, from 14 June, in Veszprém (City of Queens), European Capital of Culture 2023, in Hungary. The theme of the Conference was "From Spinning rooms to trendy cafés", to share knowledge and experiences on how intangible cultural heritage has been transferred/transformed into a living and thriving art. In the new narrative projects there is more, and more, and more social thinking and acting. The Italian Storytelling Center, a FEST component, was also part of the Conference.

Stories and creative accumulation. With a story told by so many different looks and languages, let's blow out this candle that was light up our path by howling in chorus … happy birthday Centro Italiano Storytelling. A micro-history interpreted in French and German, Romagnolo and Toscano, Friulano and Spanish, Arab-Lebanese and … . Over the course of a week (April 24 to 29) you were find fresh, fresh, fresh, one narrative a day on your table. The storytellers will alternate every day: Anna Facciani, Flavio Milandri, Stefania Ganzini, Nayla Khoury Daoun, Ornella Mercuri, Monika Seitz and Lia Zannetti. Now on Youtobe!

"I bringed with me a small 'nursery' of tree stories to work with: legends and folk tales, but also true stories, which speak of the relationship between trees, landscapes and humans". Storytelling workshop with Enedina Sanna in collaboration with the Italian Storytelling Center. In the splendid setting of Santa Maria a Ferrano (FI - Italy), surrounded by woods and immersed in a landscape of poetic beauty, we was meet at the end of May for a storytelling workshop around the stories of trees that Enedina Sanna has decided to call "Arboretum of Stories".

After all, an oral narration off the cuff is similar to a musical improvisation, which arises spontaneously but is based on solid knowledge. Donald Smith always says that Storytelling is like Jazz, you improvise together by listening to each other and listening to others to create together. The course provided the basic skills to analyze the structure of any narrative and then put it into practice effectively, creating empathy and emotions. A path therefore to tell and tell oneself effectively and capture the attention of the other. The course were be led by Giovanna Conforto, professor at Emerson College (UK), Stefania Ganzini, international storyteller, Flavio Milandri, Metamuseo resident storyteller, trainers of the Italian Storytelling Center.

"Stories, the ancient (co)science" storytelling workshop. Training with a group of young Rotarians from all over Italy. In collaboration with the Rotary Club Tre Valli and the Interreligious Museum, the Italian Storytelling Center, with Giovanna Conforto, Stefania Ganzini, Flavio Milandri, Aurelia Zannetti, has accompanied the groups with guide stories in a transformative experience in a training module within the “R.Y.L.A. Junior - Rotary Youth Leadership Awards” course in Bertinoro (Italy).

Are we our narratives? The annual path of the project "The geometric complexity of the daisy" was arrive, with the occasion of International Women's Day and with female stories from the Italian Storytelling Center, an evening by invitation Soroptimist International Club Forlì, in collaboration with the Aurora Association on March 23rd. The references of collective existence are marked by the transformations of ways of understanding even words such as feminine and masculine.

Eighty storytellers from every continent converged in Marrakech for "Ancestral Voices", the second edition of a free international storytelling festival. The festival was animate the Medina with stories told in public spaces, museums and monuments as well as cafés, restaurants, and riads. The Italian Storytelling Center was attend the festival with a delegation led by Stefania Ganzini and Flavio Milandri.

Epiphany and then? With an entire month of scheduled activities, from “Portico dei Presepi”, the eyes full of wonder, the closing of the period, January 8, could only raise the emotional bar with an afternoon of stories from the Italian Storytelling Center. “Befanotti”? Perhaps … the storytellers intervened: Anna Facciani, Stefania Ganzini, Ornella Mercuri, Flavio Milandri and Lia Zannetti. With the magic of oral narration, the available stock of well-being, joy, pampering, hope will increase, for everyone so as to face the challenges of the new year together with greater strength. Sunday 8 January at the Teatro Iris Versari, free admission until all available seats are available.

Even if we are not aware of it, do most of our beliefs rest on stories? "In the heart of autumn, stories and poems" with free admission, a special afternoon, arm in arm with San Martino, on November 20, from 4.30 pm, with the Italian Storytelling Center, other artists and authors, at the Locanda Tinti in Diacceto (FI). Between stories and poems with Lia Zannetti, Flavio Milandri, Paola Canu, Stefania Ganzini and Laura Tinti, here is the tasty, warm, colorful embrace of autumn where there were be games, songs and ... the flying lanterns of Monika Seitz.

Design thinking for educators. We have decided to anticipate our narration project for the centenary of Italo Calvino's birth occurring in 2023 by telling about the city, participation and sustainability in contemporary terms in order to promote public spirit. We were thus offer two storytelling workshops - "Leonia, paper landscapes?" and "Stories, postures, mindset, traces” - which were be included in the educational catalogue for local primary and middle schools drawn up by two local organizations in Emilia-Romagna Region (Mause and VolontaRomagna).