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A welcome story for 2025: The three stone-cutters

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

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

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

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

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...