Welcome to the FEAST!

The Federation of Asian Storytellers was set up by a group of experienced storytellers with a vision of promoting the art of storytelling in Asia. It was officially launched in Chennai on 24 August 2018. Through the work of the Federation, we are creating more opportunities for tellers to perform, internationally and inter-culturally, by organising festivals, performances and teller exchanges.

FEAST fosters learning and development. We encourage our members to share their skills and to learn from one another's experience. We celebrate Asian stories and the many ways in which we make these tales connect with our audiences, while reaching out to develop new ones and nurturing a new generation of storytellers.
We look forward to welcoming you to the FEAST - either as a chef (our tellers!)
or as someone hungry to be fed (our audience!)

CONGRATUALTIONS

to all of our FEAST members who participated in the second Foundations of Oral Storytelling course which concluded on 28 May with a showcase of stories told by the participants. With so many participants, we needed to run three separate breakout rooms concurrently to avoid having a marathon three hour session. Our 17 participants came from Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Nepal, Singapore, the UAE and the UK.

The showcase marked the end of the 10 module course that ran weekly on-line from mid-March. Through sessions facilitated by Sheila Wee, Kiran Shah and Roger Jenkins, they were able to explore many different aspects of telling, from first finding and choosing a story, to then learning and internalising it, before exploring ways to animate and characterise the story, add dialogue or incorporate techniques to help their audience visualise it. They were blessed to have the option of one-on-one coaching from Jeeva Raghunath, and the generous guidance and feedback from two highly experienced tellers, Christine Carlton (Australia) and Rona Barbour (UK), who sat in on the 'dress rehearsal' to provide support and encouragement.