Oct. 5—Oral storytelling is a tradition in Appalachia with roots primarily tracing back to the Scotch-Irish Appalachian settlers that began inhabiting the region during the 18th century. Like many ...

Grady Wilson Powell Sr. grew up hearing about the moment in 1865 when his grandfather, born into slavery in Virginia, learned he was free. “The story is, from oral tradition, that my grandfather just ...

In his tenth book, author Nitin Kushalappa presents 11 stories from Bayaluseeme, Kodagu, Tulunad, Kongu Nadu, and beyond. He ...

A new study finds that strong oral storytelling skills in preschool lead to better reading scores for black boys as they progress through elementary school, while for black girls proficiency in oral ...

The Roxborough branch of the Philadelphia Public Library honored Black History month this week in a medium that is becoming less and less common – oral storytelling. Carla Wiley, of the storytelling ...

“Oral storytelling is not with a book — I’m telling the stories, and I’m creating the pictures,” Gabianelli said. “It is probably the oldest art form that exists. It is multicultural, ...

Day 02 of the Oral Storytelling Symposium. The Oral Storytelling Symposium’s intent is to explore oral storytelling as a primal, vital, cultural, historical, archival, narrative, scientific, ...

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has talked about one of his most controversial casting decisions surrounding his upcoming epic, ...

If you're feeling stuck in an infinite loop of pandemic days and pandemic weekends, peppered only with the slight irregularity found by checking the news for the daily doom, you're not alone. And it ...

Once upon a time, there was no television or Twitter to aid in the creation and dissemination of stories. In those days, if one wanted a story, someone would have to tell it. Storytelling may be a ...

Sushmita Singha and Salil Bhandari explain why live storytelling—from folk to contemporary—creates empathy, connection, and preserves cultural memory in a screen-driven world At a time when screens ...