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Take me to the orchard
It seems that today will rain well all day long. The cloudy sky that stops carnival is source of joy for the thirsty plants. For my thirst of stories, though, I am lucky to count on my virtual meetings with a group of storytelling friends where we share experiences...
Storytelling time
One of the pleasures I have recovered from my storyteller’s life is to pick up a book before bedtime and open it randomly in pursuit of a new story I’d love to tell. In winter time, however, my house is so cold that I choose electronic books so I can read them under...
A welcome story for 2025: The three stone-cutters
In December I use to reread the two volumes of The Circle of Liars, the collection of philosophical short stories from all over the world from Jean-Claude Carrière, searching for a new story to welcome the New Year. It has become a fascinating ritual, since...
Stories at the Festinat
Sometimes we do things without thinking why. For instance, to knock on wood for good luck. Rereading Tony Allan’s The Mythic Bestiary I discovered that this gesture comes from a German woodcutter’s habit: they used tap gently the trunk of a venerable tree,...
Storytelling Week for Adult Audiences in Valencia
Life has many twists and turns: when I released The Night of Spider’s legs I was a storyteller based in Barcelona trying to reconnect with my Empordà roots through the poems of Carles Fages de Climent. Five years later, while rehearsing stories,...
The first story for 2024: Nasrudin at war
This year’s folktale comes from a character from oral tradition: Nasrudin, Joha, Shrulek, Affandi… This wise and crazy man present in almost all cultures, characterized by hit the nail on the head through humour. A very touching story which makes me think that...
The Pam Pam Bird and other Stories
My mother said I eat olives like a starling and I wear my hair like a magpie’s nest: no wonder that I have been invited to tell stories at the Bird Festival which is taking place this week at the Natural Park Aiguamolls de l’Empordà. If you want to know...
A story for 2023: the sparrow and the sky
This year, as I see I’ve been very little on my blog, it seems as if I had totally forgotten stories. However, although I had not time to write about it yet, I had the luck of being part of a Creative residency in Sigüenza and working under the guidance of...
Stories and languages: the seed
Although I am not certain of having totally worn out my last pair of iron shoes yet, as I said in my last post written exactly 8 months and a half ago, it seems pretty sure that stories have appeared discreetly again in my new life with a storytelling project which...