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Not long ago, children would sit around their grandparents at night after dinner listening to stories of fairies, prince and princess, and distant lands. This tradition of oral story telling is dying. Many say it is already dead.
Now both children and adults while away their time in the living room watching TV. To help revive this tradition, the Center of Bhutan Studies (CBS) in association with the International Centre for Ethnographic studies in the US is organizing a story telling conference in the Capital. The three day conference began today. Her Royal Highness Ashi Sonam Dechan Wangchuck graced the opening.
The conference will try to write and capture the cadence of story telling, the musical quality of the language and the manner of the speaker. It also aims to capture the creative art of story telling in an electronic form and film that can become the part of mass media.
CBS says, traditions are fragile, and the safe deposit of the oral stories is not permanent. But it hopes that efforts like this can light up the drive to preserve the voices of the past.
Opening the first national conference on storytelling, Her Royal Highness Ashi Sonam Dechan Wangchuck said it is a pity that one of the oldest and most powerful expressions of individual and cultural creativity- traditional storytelling has been taken over by the other means of mass media such as TV and internet in today's society. Her Royal Highness said today, young children rarely sit around their grandparents and elders to listen to stories.
Her Royal Highness said in most urban areas, social relationships are often weakened by these new forms of media. With the rise of these new technological storytelling mediums, the cultural prominence of traditional storytelling as an art form is transforming.
Her Royal Highness said every one must make an effort to re-tell stories we heard in our childhood as a first step to revive our precious oral traditions.
Her Royal Highness said storytelling is a special bond between elders and children and a means of passing on our tradition, culture, and moral values to the next generation.
Her Royal Highness said community storytelling reinforces social bonds that connect individuals to their community, through shared experiences of traditional knowledge and heritage.
Nine foreign participants and ten Bhutanese folklorists are attending the three-day programme.
Source: BBS
Now both children and adults while away their time in the living room watching TV. To help revive this tradition, the Center of Bhutan Studies (CBS) in association with the International Centre for Ethnographic studies in the US is organizing a story telling conference in the Capital. The three day conference began today. Her Royal Highness Ashi Sonam Dechan Wangchuck graced the opening.
The conference will try to write and capture the cadence of story telling, the musical quality of the language and the manner of the speaker. It also aims to capture the creative art of story telling in an electronic form and film that can become the part of mass media.
CBS says, traditions are fragile, and the safe deposit of the oral stories is not permanent. But it hopes that efforts like this can light up the drive to preserve the voices of the past.
Opening the first national conference on storytelling, Her Royal Highness Ashi Sonam Dechan Wangchuck said it is a pity that one of the oldest and most powerful expressions of individual and cultural creativity- traditional storytelling has been taken over by the other means of mass media such as TV and internet in today's society. Her Royal Highness said today, young children rarely sit around their grandparents and elders to listen to stories.
Her Royal Highness said in most urban areas, social relationships are often weakened by these new forms of media. With the rise of these new technological storytelling mediums, the cultural prominence of traditional storytelling as an art form is transforming.
Her Royal Highness said every one must make an effort to re-tell stories we heard in our childhood as a first step to revive our precious oral traditions.
Her Royal Highness said storytelling is a special bond between elders and children and a means of passing on our tradition, culture, and moral values to the next generation.
Her Royal Highness said community storytelling reinforces social bonds that connect individuals to their community, through shared experiences of traditional knowledge and heritage.
Nine foreign participants and ten Bhutanese folklorists are attending the three-day programme.
Source: BBS
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