The Global Storytellers
Stories can re-imagine the way we live, challenge stereotypes,
pass down wisdom, inspire life and upset the roots of inequality. The Global Storytellers is an online platform in formation where diverse and passionate human beings around the world share and tell stories. (http://globalstorytellers.global)
The Global Storytellers is a celebration and reinvigoration of the
art of storytelling. It is an idea for freedom of access and participation, where storytellers around the world can come together to share this passion and spread this intimacy. With The Global Storytellers platform we want to gather together a global community of storytellers who will use modern technology, but with a desire to intimately connect to another human through sharing their lives, their histories or their truths with the world. Sharing in vulnerability, breaking down perceptions, and by letting go of response and, more importantly, judgment. Together we will bring about a positive disruption in the way we ‘connect’, and our perception of the other. We asked ourselves a few very important questions while creating this platform:
• How can stories address issues of justice through true connection?
• How can we make sure that we are not telling a single story, that we are truly capturing complexity?
• How can we ensure that these stories are widely accessible, valued, and discussed, and that this Global Storytelling fuels change? The movement is specifically and unequivocally committed to telling own stories that spread light, hope, freedom and love, stories that touch the human in us. The Global Storytellers is a platform that feeds initiatives that have a storytelling heart and strives to make the global, local. One of the initiatives is to create global stories in film. The Global Story of Water is the first global story that will see the global light. We conceptualized two other initiatives that are called Cup of Stories and Global Storytellers Market.
