Storytelling festival to begin in Tehran

The 19th International Storytelling Festival is going to start at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) in Tehran.

Sixty-eight storytellers from Iran and other countries as well as IIDCYA instructors and students are going to take part in the festival.

During the festival that runs from February 15 to 19, Cuban writer and narrator Elvia Ines Perez Napoles will recite her stories along with with two Iranian storytellers at a school for Afghan immigrants in Tehran.

A gathering entitled ‘Story, Storytelling and Play’ is scheduled on the sidelines of the festival at Tehran’s Soore University today.

During the five day event Akram Qasempur and Norbert Kuber writers from Iran and Germany will give speeches.

A workshop on creativity in storytelling by the Indonesian writer Murti Bunanta will also be part of the event.

The festival is organized every year by the IIDCYA to promote storytelling traditions among younger generations.

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