Press release • 12/29/09 • In the Education and Culture Category
A contest proposes to recover the millenary tradition of storytelling through new technologies. "Short story" will reward the best oral narration posted on Youtube.com (open call until January 15).
Converting new technologies into an ally of the oral tradition is the objective of the contest 'Short story' - organized by the International Storytelling Network (RIC) and School of Writers - the first story contest organized through the distribution system of videos on the Internet Youtube.com. 'Short story' places writers and oral narrators from all over the world to write, represent and record free-themed stories with a duration that does not exceed five minutes of footage.
Storytellers and writers interested in participating in this contest can do so through the website www.cuentoencorto.com, where they will find the bases to participate, stories sent by participants and even a section, 'Give voice', where writers They can leave their texts for the interested oral narrators to dramatize. The deadline to send the recordings will end on January 15 and the jury's decision will be made public on the 30th of the same month. The winner will receive a cash prize of 500 euros and a scholarship in one of the online School of Writers courses.
This initiative is based on the School of Writers and the International Storytelling Network, a recently created organization that brings together more than a thousand oral storytellers from fifty different countries on five continents. Telling stories belongs to the magical territory of childhood, but it is an activity that unleashes creativity, imagination, communication and interculturality more intensely, explains one of the founders de la RIC, the Madrid writer Enrique P ez.
P ez, together with twelve other storytellers, founded the International Storytelling Network in September of this year to keep alive the heritage of Sherezade the protagonist of the thousand and one nights- in a time when orality is being displaced from interpersonal relationships by new technologies. The literary workshop Escuela de Escritores, which collaborates with the RIC since its birth and which teaches literary creation through the Internet for ten years, picked up the glove of organizing a contest in that precisely the new technologies were at the service of the millenary tradition of telling stories.
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