Seeking Storytellers From Around The World (and Croydon)
The Girl Who Flew Around the World
An original story about our world today told by the people who live there.
An online Disentangle Project
The hope is to bring people together in the simplest way possible, by listening to a story.
This project is subject to funding in late June but if you would like to submit your expressions of interest to become a storyteller, please click here and fill in the google form or e mail norman@disentangle.org
The Story will be told live every week and will start in South East London It will then go all over the world and land right back where it started in South East London. The first storyteller will start the narrative and end it on a cliffhanger - which will be picked up the following week by a new storyteller in a different part of the world. At the end of each story the next location will be revealed and you will have to tune in the following week to see what happened to the ‘Girl who Flew around the World’.
The Girl Who Flew Around the World is a broad storytelling theme - it allows the regional storytellers to allow the character to meet and interact with different cultures, and see how they are personally responding to the coronavirus crisis.
We want to focus on the personal rather than political, and to bring stories of hope. New friends made, reconnections with neighbours, and families brought closer together.
The girl will learn lessons about what really matters in times like these.
We will need time as a community to collect and rethink how we want to go back into workplaces, schools and public spaces. One day down the line we will need to take that leap to have permission to hug a loved once again and shake hands with a person we have met for the first time.
For now, we are still missing out on plays, films, music concerts, festivals and even our play parks. We are also missing out on our holidays; it will take months for planes to start flying and ships to leave port in the way they have before.
We plan to work with a diverse range of storytellers from across the globe who are genuinely excited about this project. These hand-picked storytellers will be paid to perform and will have one week only to prepare the story before they go live to perform it.
This will also be a platform for the storytellers themselves to talk about their own country and educate the families of South London, and the world, about themselves and where they are from. There personality and understanding of their countries heritage and culture to the audience will be invaluable.
Our tales will be real stories told by the people who are living their own personal experience of this world. Using their perceptions and insight, we hope, will open up our audience’s minds to a new way of thinking.
At this stage we are keen to talk to any professional storytellers living around the globe but we do also want to talk to people living in the following places:
· Croydon
· India
· Africa
· Poland
· Italy
· China
Disentangle will stream the entire series on their new YouTube Channel. We also intend to work in association with a local venue or group of venues, as we want to increase awareness of the local closed venues across South East London in order to allow them to raise money towards running costs. We would be keen to live stream our feed onto their platforms as well with the hope that more people will create ‘watch parties’ and engage with our live streams locally. We also hope that working with international artists will also attract its own global audience, who will start to be aware of the story and its origins in South London.
The intention is that this will be an event for the entire family to sit down and enjoy together every week. We want to not only entertain but inform. To bring families together so that they can engage with the topics of today in an accessible way outside the news streams of their countries. To see the real faces of the people out there and find solidarity in the true nature of talking and listening. We hope our story will inspire them to take a breath and step out of their doors with a new vision of how they interact with the people they have been absent from and, in the process, open their hearts to others around the world. To think local on a global scale