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UK's First Laureate of Story-Telling

According to the Federation of European Story Telling website (F.E.S.T.) since the early eighties storytelling is experiencing a renaissance all over Europe.

Professional artists tour around the countries with performance storytelling. Clubs for enthusiasts are organizing local events. New applications for storytelling are being developed among educators, in health care, business life and community builders. International festivals of story telling are organized in many countries and special educational programs for storytellers are springing up.

Since 2002, the idea of a Federation of European Story Tellers has been incarnating, and manifested in 2008 with the F.E.S.T conference in the Summer in Oslo 2008. FEST is the brainchild of Abbi Patrix (France) and Mats Rehnman (Sweden) and the occurrence of the conference, a testimony to the energy and tenacity of Heidi Dahlsveen (University College, Oslo) who rescued it from the sudden demise of the Stavanger symposium which had been cancelled due to a local authority's withdrawal of funds.

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[added 02 March 2010]

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