Every year on March 20, World
Storytelling Day celebrates the art of oral storytelling. It’s also a day
for people around the globe to listen and tell stories in as many languages as
possible.
Each year World Storytelling Day
has a theme around which the storytellers tell their stories. The storytellers
are free to choose their stories, but most of them try to connect to the
theme.
History of World Storytelling
Day: World Storytelling Day started out as a national day for storytelling
in Sweden around 1991. The day was called 'Alla berättares dag,' which
translates to All Storytellers Day.
In 1997, storytellers in
Australia coordinated a five-week long celebration of story. The day became
known as the International Day of Oral Narrators. Around this time, Mexico and
other Latin American countries were celebrating their own National Day of Storytellers.
In 2002, Scandinavians created their own storytelling web-network called
Ratatosk.
The new network helped the
national day for storytelling spread from Sweden to Norway, Denmark, Finland,
and Estonia. In 2003, the idea continued to spread to other countries including
Canada. The event became known as World Storytelling Day. Today, storytelling
events occur on every continent except Antarctica.
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