The Welsh storytellers had a surprise for us at last night's gala dinner at the end of the storytelling conference 😄 Some were more baffled than others.

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First day of the FEST storytelling conference was great! Attended two workshops on environmental storytelling: one on wolves (Dougie Mackay) and one on environmental literacy (Cara Silversmith), and an amazing "provocation" presentation on diversity in the European storytelling community (by Aoife O'Connor and Peter Chand). In the evening I heard Stephe Harrop tell her Queens of Albion story and it was powerful ❤️

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Morning keynotes at the FEST storytelling conference.
Sentence from Steve Byrne that hit home:

"Cultural heritage is not just what we *used to* have."

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