2012 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Awards to Abuelas Cuentacuentos (Argentina)

We´re happy because of The 2012 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Awards was to Abuelas Cuentacuentos in Argentina members of Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos-International Storytelling Network and SIPAR in Cambodia.


Abuelas Cuentacuentos (the Grandmother Storytelling Program) is organized by the Mempo Giardinelli Foundation, and trains older people to read stories to children. Volunteers participate in programs in schools throughout the city of Resistencia in northeastern Argentina, promoting reading to thousands of the poorest children, many of them living in marginal communities.

CONGRATULATIONS to Abuelas Cuentacuentos and SIPAR.

The International Board on Books for Young People announced the winners of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards from the Bologna Book Fair on Monday. María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina has won the 2012 Author Award and Peter Sís from the Czech Republic has won the 2012 Illustrator Award. Andruetto and Sís will receive their awards at the IBBY Congress in London on August 25.

Over 1000 members in International Storytelling Network


We are already over 1000 professional storytellers from 46 countries members of the International Storytelling Network / Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos (RIC). This is the website: www.cuentacuentos.eu

Congratulations to you all!


Celebration, 6 months telling stories on Television

Storytelling programme by Beatriz Montero celebrates 6 months on Television in the program ,"La Merienda /The Snack”, El Día Television (Tenerife, Spain). Some of these stories can be seen on her youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BeatrizMontero


Congratulations!


GRIMM


This year is the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the brothers GRIMM. There is a thrilling criminal series "Grimm" inspired by the classic stories of tales of the Brothers Grimm. The series premiered in October in the NBC (USA). If you click here you can watch some episodes.

European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012 (Ireland)


The storyteller and coordinator Richard Marsh, and the children Zara (10), Nadia (9) and Danielle (6) were invited to give a demonstration of the theme of a conference at Dublin Castle, 9 February 2012: European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012. There were about 250 attending. The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins addressed the conference. Congratulations!

More information here.



To join "Stories to Change the World" on JUNE 21

International Storytelling Network brings you this invitation to join our celebration: "Stories to Change the World" on June 21, 2011, and thereafter, on June 21 each year.

We held to celebrate the birth of the International Storytelling Network and to disseminate and enhance the art storytelling with the theme "Stories to change the world", on June 21. We held this idea in the last International Storytellers Symposium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010.

The proposal is to invite and call upon all people who want to join in this celebration: Storytellers, librarians, teachers, parents, grandparents, young people and all those interested in telling stories in different locations that day: schools, libraries, schools, family homes, parks, cultural centers, theaters.

We will seek, among everyone, telling stories to create a new reality, and begin to feel that we are building a better world through the words and stories.
If you tell stories on June 21, send us an e-mail telling us where it will be. We´ll hang the information on the website of Stories to Change the World.

If you do not speak Spanish, it does not matter: all the pages on our website have a Google translator tool in eleven languages: English, Arabic, German, French, Italian, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese and Spanish.

WEB: www.historiasparacambiarelmundo.com
BLOG: www.historiasparacambiarelmundo.blogspot.com

• Name and surname of the person who tells stories.
• Name of the place where you will tell stories (venue, street, city and country).
• What time will the performance take place.
Also you can send us a photo of the act on June 21, or a youtube link about your intervention. We´ll also hang it on the website.

E-mail: red@cuentacuentos.eu

Thank you for joining this proposal!

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International Storytelling Network (Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos) is a website for storytellers. It is open to everyone interested in spreading Storytelling, Reading Promotion, Literature and Performing Arts. This platform for networking and dissemination of the work of storytelling brings together over 1,000 narrators from 50 countries on five continents.

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