La Gomera – Sheila Crosby

Storytelling in La Gomera

Canarian Story Tellers after the performance: eve, Pilar, ? , Silvia, Magdalena, Maribel, Marynexy, Alfredo, Sheila

December 1, 2015

Well the conference was great. Vallehermoso means “Beautiful valley” and it is. You know those ceramic Christmas villages you can buy, where the cottage windows light up? That’s what Vallehermoso reminds me of. But most of the weekend was fantastic. The storytellers are a great group of people: very creative, very friendly, very generous with sharing their ideas. They also have great taste. I know because they were all interested…

Storytelling Conference

Poster for the Canarian Storytellers conference, 2015, La Gomera

November 26, 2015

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Tomorrow I’m off to another conference, this time a 3-day one for storytelling. Not the advertising technique, the “Once upon a time…” type of oral storytelling. Last year was the first one and I met a wonderful bunch of people, so I’m really looking forward to meeting them all again and seeing them perform. The catch (and maybe the best part) is that I’ll be performing too. You see, I…