)babel( 0.1 – stories and languages
17/11/2017 - blog
How can a storyteller present stories to an audience from a different language? It is possible to make disappear the «translator’s» role? What happens when more than two languages come into play? And with more than two storytellers? How can this enrich our artwork? How it will be received by a monolingual, bilingual, multilingual… audience? Do any formulas or recipes exist which can be explored or applied in our usual storytelling context? It may open storytelling to other areas? Is multilingual storytelling a world of possibilities, or just an utopia? ... 
folktales with kamishibai
15/11/2017 - blog
In Japan, they say the kids used to rush out to the streets when they heard the cry of the street vendors selling candy. These people used to go from town to town with their kamishibai, a little wooden theater for telling stories. After having told one, or two, or even three and a half stories, and gathered the biggest audience, they offered their goodies. I have not seen that, but I like to imagine it. Or even better, to play “as if” it happens, but here. Next week I will tell stories with a kamishibai, this new wooden companion that comes along with me ... 
the best backup
22/10/2017 - blog
I have been some days with a computer failure and I wasn’t able to tell you about the next session before: it is as if we can’t do anything without those machines. Fortunately, folktales don’t need antivirus or backups: I count on you for that, because stories will be very safe if you told them again. And thanks to my brother Dani and his love for arts and crafts, I will also bring a bunch of bimbirimboies, with no additives nor added sugar, that we have been preparing digitally for all of you during this summer, while sharing jokes, laughter and ... 
Stories in Diwali
17/10/2017 - blog
The Moon decides the exact day. It is celebrated on the new moon from October to November, namely in Amavasya, which means the moonless night, or the night of the dark moon. But darkness is not abundant during Diwali. On Diwali nights in India from ancient times thousand of oil lamps are lit to light up the way of the beloved ones, to begin a prosperous and auspicious year, to pray for the good of all. This year Diwali begins the 18th and finishes the 22th October, and it is a pleasure to celebrate it with my friends from the Indian Culture Centre. There will be dance, ... 
Trees and stories
26/09/2017 - blog
Yesterday I went to the Botanic Garden to visit trees and stories. I like to go there often, is the perfect refugee for birds, nature friends and silence lovers. I stopped under the shadow of the trees where last April, during the Botanic Garden spring festival Planta’t (“Plant yourself”), I told some of the folktales and myths related with trees I have been collecting, and it is as if the stories were still there, among the whisper of the leaves, or the light playing between the branches. And it is as if the garden is transforming in a sort of mind ... 
3/5: Olokuti, session 5
22/08/2017 - blog
This year, at Olokuti’s yard, we will be 3/5 3 storytellers telling stories, myths and legends 5 Mondays of July, August and September, at 19h For adult and young audience Monday 4th September, from 19 to 20h Stories at Olokuti’s yard Helena Cuesta and Marisol Cumare and Susana Tornero Stories for adult and young audience Free entrance – limited seats Activity subject to weather conditions Olokuti C/ Astúries, 36 Metro: Fontana Bus: 114, 39, 22, 24, V17 Helena Cuesta, storyteller, cultural facilitator and tourist guide. She tells what she dreams, ... 
3/5: Olokuti, session 4
08/08/2017 - blog
This year, at Olokuti’s yard, we will be three, five 3 storytellers telling stories, myths and legends 5 Mondays of July, August and September, at 19h For adult and young audience Monday 21st August, from 19 to 20h Stories at Olokuti’s yard Marisol Cumare and Sarah Nichols and Susana Tornero Stories for adult and young audience Free entrance – limited seats Activity subject to weather conditions Olokuti C/ Astúries, 36 Metro: Fontana Bus: 114, 39, 22, 24, V17 Marisol Cumare, born in Venezuela (Caracas), lives in Barcelona, where she combines oral ... 
3/5: Olokuti, session 3
25/07/2017 - blog
This year, at Olokuti’s yard, we will be three, five 3 storytellers telling stories, myths and legends 5 Mondays of July, August and September, at 19h For adult and young audience Monday 7th Augus, from 19 to 20h Stories at Olokuti’s yard Isabela Méndez and Marisol Cumare and Susana Tornero Stories for adult and young audience Free entrance – limited seats Activity subject to weather conditions Olokuti C/ Astúries, 36 Metro: Fontana Bus: 114, 39, 22, 24, V17 Isabela Méndez, actress, singer, storyteller and writer with a solid training, she has ... 3/5: Olokuti, session 2
12/07/2017 - blog
This year, at Olokuti’s yard, we will be three, five 3 storytellers telling stories, myths and legends 5 Mondays of July, August and September, at 19h For adult and young audience Monday 24th July, from 19 to 20h Stories at Olokuti’s yard Marisol Cumare and Sarah Nichols and Susana Tornero Stories for adult and young audience Free entrance – limited seats Language: Spanish Activity subject to weather conditions Olokuti C/ Astúries, 36 Metro: Fontana Bus: 114, 39, 22, 24, V17 Marisol Cumare, born in Venezuela (Caracas), lives in Barcelona, where she ... 