Learning Lore

EMILY HENNESSEY is a dynamic performance storyteller often found wielding a stick and stamping her feet as she embraces epics, myths, wondertales and folktales from across the world.  Work and travel in India have kindled in Emily a great love of Hindu mythology. She’s journeyed over 10,000 miles across India by train, bus, rattling rickshaw and rickety bicycle. She’s lived with a yak-herding fami...

Ebba Lisberg Jensen is a human ecologist, who for many years did research on forestry, biodiversity and sustainable urban development. She is a frequent participant in the storytelling group here at the department of pedagogical, curricural and professional studies. She is a humanities scholar always ending up in biology. Presently, Ebba is a senior lecturer at the teacher education at the Univers...

Abdulrahman is a Fulbright scholar from Lebanon and holds a MSc in Neuroscience from The University of Texas at Dallas. He is interested in teaching neuroscience to children as a form of science education and social-emotional learning. At his startup, Neurochem Lab, Abdul develops neuroscience educational programs, using storytelling as his primary learning approach. 

Dr Si Poole, is an Associate Professor of Cultural Education at the University of Chester, UK; He is a folklorist, trustee of the Mythstories museum and a Director and Researcher at the Centre for Research into Education, Creativity and Arts through Practice (RECAP). His work currently focuses on gardening in education, and as the founder and holder of the National Plant collection of Mentha, his...

Dublin born storyteller Clare Murphy has worked with story for 19 years. SHe has performed on stages around Europe and the Americas for audiences of 5000 people. She tells myth, folklore, wisdom tales, science, and history, as well as the occasional true story. She teaches and consults with all kinds of people and organisations worldwide from The Royal Shakespeare Company to NASA Jet Propulsion La...

Meet two teacher educators from Ludwigsburg in Germany. They have experience of using storytelling in language teaching. Andrea tells a bilingual version of Little red riding hood. Rachelle Breuer, M.A . has taught college-level EFL (English as a Foreign Language) and German as a Foreign Language in the U.S. and Germany, and she currently works as an EFL instructor / academic staff member in the I...

Daniel Morden has been a professional teller of traditional tales since 1989. He has travelled all over the world, from the Arctic to the Pacific to the Caribbean, sharing and collecting stories. He has appeared at the National Theatre, Hay Festival, The National Storytelling Festival of America, WOMAD, many theatres, arts centres, festivals…and thousands of schools. In 2017 he was awarded the Hay...

It was at the Music and Storytelling Festival in Ljungby last summer that we met Mara Menzi from Kenya. And we took the opportunity to record a podcast episode when we had the chance. It became a very interesting conversation about storytelling's ability to spread hope, which is important in our time. Mara is an award-winning storyteller and author who has captivated audiences across more than 30...

This pod cast is recorded live infront of an audience at the music and storytelling festival in Ljungby 13th of June 2025. Svend-Erik Engh, are a Danish storyteller based in Edinburgh. He brings Viking sagas, Norse myths, and Scandinavian folktales to life with a vivid, physical style shaped by his training at Odin Teatret. With over 30 years of experience, he has performed across the UK and Europ...

Swedish storyteller, singer and folk musician. 2014 she started a Masters at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, a masters that came to focus on learning and creating by copying. This lead to her creating a series of performances with the Eddic Poem Voluspá, copying masters of different epic singing- and storytelling traditions around the world. At the moment she is touring The Hairy Girl, a...

Dr. Camilla Brudin Borg is a Senior Lecturer inLiterary Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work focuses on innovative methodological development at the intersection of ecocriticism, narrative studies, andliterary futures. She leads research projects that explore the use of utopian genres as creative tools for imagining a wider range of possible futures. Her collaborations include...

Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, where she works, among other things, on questions of time and temporality, futures and storytelling in shaping how societies think about education, and educational purpose.  She leads the British Academy Programme ‘Times of a Just Transition’ – which is looking at how ideas of time, and temporal narratives, sha...

Steve is a Clinical Psychologist and Storyteller who loves to work at the interface of these two areas- He is interested in how stories and storytelling can be applied in education and health and has written several books and papers in this area. He has written Telling Tales-Storytelling and Emotional Literacy - with Taffy Thomas - and Feelings are Funny Things-A storytelling toolkit' for schools...

Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen has worked as a storyteller since 1996 both national and abroad. Her artistic projects are often developed through working interdisciplinary with other artists, where she combines traditional and autobiographical narratives with theory. She is parttime associate professor in oral storytelling at Oslomet – metropolitan university in Oslo, Norway. Her research focus is on how...

Sally Windsor is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and International Education here at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies at the University of Gothenburg. She teach courses in Education for Sustainable Development, and International and Global Education. Her research interests include creative and arts-based teaching for sustainability, and climate change edu...

Trained at the Drama School Jacques Lecoq  in Paris, Abbi Patrixhas been exploring the art of storytelling for the past thirty years .His workis at the cross-roads of theatre, music and movement,on a permanent quest fornew ways and voices to enrich the form of storytelling. To transmit his searchto young générations of storytellers he created in France and in europe« the labo », a collective and m...

Dominic Kelly is an international storyteller with a warm, witty and immersive storytelling style. He has captivated audiences around the world. In the UK he has performed at venues including the Barbican, National Theatre, British Museum, and The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. As a member of Stockholm-based company Fabula Storytelling, he has directed performances at theatres and arts cent...