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The simple story is more successful than the complicated one:
Wijnand Stomp op Curaçao
Yes! Zaterdag 5 maart geeft Mister Anansi twee shows op Curacao. Één voor kids en één voor volwassen. Waar?
Bij café Copa Cabana op het Keukenplein in Punda. Zegt het voort. read on…
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum zoekt Anansi vertellers
Afro-Caraïbische vertelcultuur krijgt plaats onder de Anansiboom
Vanaf april 2016 heeft de Anansiboom – en daarmee de Afro-Caraïbische vertelcultuur – een plek gekregen in het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum. Het museum is daarvoor op zoek naar vrijwillige verhalenvertellers uit de Afro-Caraïbische gemeenschap. Zij krijgen een training van meesterverteller Wijnand Stomp, alias Mister Anansi. read on…
Dertigjarig Jubileum Wijnand Stomp
Na een succesvolle wereldtour zet Meesterverteller Wijnand Stomp zijn jubileumjaar voort met een heel diverse reeks optredens. Vlak na de zomer begint hij aan zijn lievelingsvoorstelling: Jip en Janneke – verteld door Wijnand Stomp. read on…
Night of the Zoo
door Jerry Dewnarain
Het amfitheater van de Surinaamse dierentuin was op zaterdag 6 en zondag 7 juni 2015 omgetoverd tot een podium voor vertelkunstenaars. Zowel jongeren als ouderen hebben hun vertelkunst gedeeld met publiek. Renate Galdey, zelf ook vertelkunstenaar, is de bedenker van ‘Night of the Zoo’. Zij diende dit project in bij de Nederlandse ambassade die het goedkeurde. read on…
Vlaams/Nederlandse vertelweek 17 tot 25 januari 2015
In december van 2012 organiseerde de bibliotheek van Herzele (in 2014 uitgeroepen tot beste bibliotheek van Vlaanderen en Brussel) samen met enkele mensen uit de professionele Vertelsector het eerste Vlaamse Vertelsymposium. Uit deze boeiende studiedag ontwikkelde zich de idee om een Vertelweek te organiseren. read on…
Sranan Tori Academia levert 37 junior ‘toriman’
door Rose-Marie Maître
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Paramaribo – Onbevreesd, vlot en vol overtuiging vertelt Tiago Sauza hoe een man erachter komt dat er tussen de oren van het Surinaamse kind een schat verborgen zit. Sauza is een van de zevenendertig kinderen die zondagmiddag een certificaat Junior Storyteller in ontvangst mocht nemen. Op het terrein van de Nederlandse ambassade in Paramaribo is onder belangstelling van een goed opgekomen publiek de serie workshops ‘de kracht van storytelling’ van Sranan Tori Academia afgesloten. read on…
‘De kracht van storytelling’: tweemaal zoveel deelnemers
De vakantieworkshop ‘De kracht van storytelling’ is gisteren van start gegaan in het Naks-gebouw in Paramaribo. De workshop is in twee groepen verdeeld, omdat zich dit jaar twee maal zoveel deelnemers hebben aangemeld. In de eerste groep deden 45 kinderen tussen de leeftijd 7 en 10 jaar mee. read on…
“We hebben de zon tevoorschijn verteld!”
door Annemieke
Middelburg, 14 juni 2014
Op het Abdijplein in Middelburg, tegenover het Zeeuws museum vond zaterdag 14 juni de Nationale herdenking van de afschaffing van de slavenhandel plaats. De verhalen van Wijnand Stomp (DC Pearl Arts and Literature 2013) namen een centrale plaats in op deze dag. Om twee uur begon onder de monumentale boom op het plein zijn doorlopende voorstelling “De Kracht van het Verhaal”, waarin hij zoals hij het noemt “de zwarte bladzijde van ons geschiedenisboek voorleest.” read on…
Hilli en Gilli vertellen op 20 maart
Op 20 maart wordt elk jaar wereldwijd in alle mogelijke talen op alle denkbare plekken het vertelfeest gevierd. Terwijl Suriname op die dag nog in diepe rust verkeert zijn vertelkunstenaars in Nieuw Zeeland al actief met hun presentaties. Dit jaar is het thema heel ruim: Monsters, Slangen en Draken. Behalve het genot van de verhalen is deze dag ook bedoeld om aandacht te vragen voor het ambacht van vertellen. Aandacht voor nut en noodzaak, waarde en meerwaarde van de vertelkunde en vertelkunst.
Ook dit jaar zal het Garagetheater van de Ambassade van het Koninkrijk der Nederland in Suriname de ontmoetingsplaats vormen voor publiek en vertelkunstenaars Hilli Arduin en Guillaume Pool. Interactie tijdens de vertellingen wordt zeer op prijs gesteld.
Van 20.00 – 22.00u. Toegang gratis. Info Hilli Arduin 470268 of 8637309. Guillaume Pool 451129.
Nationale Voorlees- en Verteldag
Op 4 maart 2014 zal voor de veertiende keer de Nationale Voorlees/Verteldag worden herdacht. Ook dit jaar houdt in Suriname de Voorlees- en Vertelclub van Stiching TOBIDEB een Voorlees- en Vertelweek van zaterdag 1 tot en met zaterdag 8 maart 2014. De Stichting zal in deze week op scholen en instellingen, voor kinderen en seniorenburgers, voorlees- en vertelactiviteiten ontplooien en spelletjes doen. De stichting roept ook anderen op gedurende de voorlees- en vertelweek in hun eigen omgeving extra aandacht te besteden aan voorlezen en vertellen.
Verder bent u van harte welkom op dinsdag 4 maart 2014 van 17:00 – 19:00 uur bij de Nola Hetterman Academie om de activiteiten van de club mee te maken.
Lobi Tori Neti
De Lobi Tori Neti 2014 van gisterenavond was een denderend succes. De avond begon om 20.00 uur. Inloop 19.30 uur.Om 18.30 uur kwamen de eerste mensen, want ze wilden een goede plaatst hebben. Om 19.30 uur was het helemaal vol en om 20.00 uur was het eivol. Het was een geslaagde avond met mooie verhalen van Guillaume Pool en van mij. Verhalen waar de liefde van verschillende kanten werd belicht, verteld en bezongen. Maar.. het publiek, de toeschouwers, die waren de eregasten en hebben deze avond samen met ons de Tori Neti tot volheid gebracht. Thanks Guillaume, thanks aanwezigen, thanks Tori Oso.
[van Facebook]
What listening to a story does to our brains
by Leo Widrich
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In 1748, the British politician and aristocrat John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich used a lot of his free time for playing cards. One of the problems he had was that he greatly enjoyed eating a snack, whilst still keeping one hand free for the cards.
So he came up with the idea to eat beef between slices of toast, which would allow him to finally eat and play cards at the same time. Eating his newly invented “sandwich”, the name for 2 slices of bread with meat in between, became one of the most popular meal inventions in the western world.
What’s interesting about this, is that you are very likely to never forget the story of who invented the sandwich ever again. Or at least, much less likely to do so, if it would have been presented to us in bullet points or other purely information based form.
For over 27,000 years, since the first cave paintings were discovered, telling stories has been one of our most fundamental communication methods. Since recently a good friend of mine, gave me an introduction to the power of storytelling, I wanted to learn more.
Here is the science around storytelling and how we can use it to make better decisions every day:
Our brain on stories: How our brains become more active when we tell stories
We all enjoy a good story, whether it’s a novel, a movie or simply something one of our friends is explaining to us that they’ve experienced. But why do we feel so much more engaged when we hear a narrative about events?
It’s in fact quite simple. If we listen to a powerpoint presentation with boring bullet points, a certain part in the brain gets activated. Scientists call this Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area. Overall, it hits our language processing parts in the brain, where we decode words into meaning. And that’s it, nothing else happens.
When we are being told a story though, things change dramatically found researchers in Spain. Not only are the language processing parts in our brain activated, but any other area in our brain, that we would use when experiencing the events of the story are too.
If someone tells us about how delicious certain foods were, our sensory cortex lights up, if it’s about motion, our motor cortex gets active:
“Metaphors like “The singer had a velvet voice” and “He had leathery hands” roused the sensory cortex. […] Then, the brains of participants were scanned as they read sentences like “John grasped the object” and “Pablo kicked the ball.” The scans revealed activity in the motor cortex, which coordinates the body’s movements.”
A story can put your whole brain to work. And yet, it gets better:
When we tell stories to others that have really helped us shape our thinking and way of life, we can have the same effect on them too. The brains of the person telling a story and listening to it, can synchronize, says Uri Hasson from Princeton:
“When the woman spoke English, the volunteers understood her story, and their brains synchronized. When she had activity in her insula, an emotional brain region, the listeners did too. When her frontal cortex lit up, so did theirs. By simply telling a story, the woman could plant ideas, thoughts and emotions into the listeners’ brains.”
Anything you’ve experienced, you can get others to experience the same. Or at least, get their brain areas that you’ve activated that way, active too:
Evolution has wired our brains for storytelling – how to make use of it
Now all this is interesting. We know that we can activate our brains better if we listen to stories. The still unanswered question is: Why is that? Why does the format of a story, where events unfold one after the other have such a profound impact on our learning?
The simple answer is this: We are wired that way. A story, if broken down into the simplest form is a connection of cause and effect. And that is exactly how we think.
We think in narratives all day long, no matter if it is about buying groceries, whether we think about work or our spouse at home. We make up (short) stories in our heads for every action and conversation. In fact, Jeremy Hsu found:
“Personal stories and gossip make up 65% of our conversations.”
Now, whenever we hear a story, we want to relate it to one of our existing experiences. That’s why metaphors work so well with us. Whilst we are busy searching for a similar experience in our brains, we activate a part called insula, which helps us relate to that same experience of pain, joy, disgust or else.
The following graphic probably describes it best:
In a great experiment, John Bargh at Yale found the following:
“Volunteers would meet one of the experimenters, believing that they would be starting the experiment shortly. In reality, the experiment began when the experimenter, seemingly struggling with an armful of folders, asks the volunteer to briefly hold their coffee. As the key experimental manipulation, the coffee was either hot or iced. Subjects then read a description of some individual, and those who had held the warmer cup tended to rate the individual as having a warmer personality, with no change in ratings of other attributes.”
We link up metaphors and literal happenings automatically. Everything in our brain is looking for the cause and effect relationship of something we’ve previously experienced.
Let’s dig into some hands on tips to make use of it:
3 Awesome ways to use storytelling in every day life
Make others come up with your idea: Exchange telling suggestions for telling stories:
Do you know the feeling, when a good friend tells you a story and then two weeks later, you mention the same story to him, as if it was your idea? This is totally normal and at the same time, one of the most powerful ways to get people on board with your ideas and thoughts. According to Uri Hasson from Princeton, a story is the only way to activate parts in the brain so that a listener turns the story into their own idea and experience.
The next time you struggle with getting people on board with your projects and ideas, simply tell them a story, where the outcome is that doing what you had in mind, is the best thing to do. According to Princeton researcher Hasson, storytelling is the only way to plant ideas into other people’s minds.
Write more persuasively – bring in stories from yourself or an expert:
This is something that took me a long time to understand. If you start out writing, it’s only natural to think “I don’t have a lot of experience with this, how can I make my post believable if I use personal stories?”. The best way to get around this is by simply exchanging stories to those of experts. When this blog used to be a social media blog, I would ask for quotes from the top folks in the industry or simply find great passages they had written online. It’s a great way to add credibility and at the same time, tell a story.
The simple story is more successful than the complicated one:
When we think of stories, it is often easy to convince ourselves that they have to be complex and detailed to be interesting. The truth is however, that the simpler a story, the more likely it will stick. Using simple language as well as a low complexity is the best way to activate the brain regions that make us truly relate to the situation and happenings in the story. This is a similar reason to why multitasking is so hard for us. Try for example to reduce the number adjectives or complicated nouns in a presentation or article and exchange them with more simple, yet heartfelt language.
Quick last fact: Our brain learns to ignore certain overused words and phrases that used to make stories awesome
Oh and one last thing. Scientists, in the midst of researching the topic of storytelling have also discovered, that certain words and phrases have lost all storytelling power:
“Some scientists have contended that figures of speech like “a rough day” are so familiar that they are treated simply as words and no more.”
This means, that the frontal cortex – the area of your brain responsible to experience emotions, can’t be activated with these phrases. It’s something that might be worth remembering when crafting your next story.
Storytelling is one of the most powerful techniques we have as humans to communicate and motivate. What are your best tips for telling stories? Have you had similar experiences with telling stories? I’d love your thoughts on this topic in the comments.
[from Buffer, November 29th, 2012]
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