The document discusses storytelling and how stories are shared in various contexts and formats. It provides examples of storytelling festivals, oral traditions, recorded stories, and digital platforms that allow people to share their experiences and perspectives. Various methods are highlighted for capturing, preserving, and transmitting stories and histories through different artistic and technological means.

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2. 8th Annual Slieve Bloom Storytelling Festival 2 – 16 Oct 2010 The stories that have been told for generations by the people who live on and around these mountains are bound up with the landscape, place names and the history of the area which stretches back to before the time of the druids, There are stories of invasions, plantations and rebellions, fairy lore and ghost stories, as well as the necessary yarns and tall tales which Irish people love. Visitors to the Slieve Blooms will discover a new landscape of the imagination in these mountains and local people will rediscover the magic of the stories of their own place through the art of storytelling which will be brought to you by great storytellers, some local, who have all developed a keen interest in the revival of storytelling by featuring at the Storytelling Festivals in Ireland. 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

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4. The Chatter Chair at The Point Village Market 2010 Saturday, May 29th The first meeting at the Point Village Market sees the launch of 6 x10, a narrative interactive installation, highlighting the old Irish craft of storytelling. The ‘6 x 10’ will take place on Saturday, May 29th between 2 & 3 where 10 speakers will talk for 6 min each on a given theme. The idea is that people will have the opportunity to regale a tale (whatever that might be!) to an audience in an informal, fun environment. The chair will then be opened up to be used by the public to share their stories or perhaps just a little bit of gossip! 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

5. Comedians Worldwide, N/A Comedians often voice the thoughts of the people – that's why we laugh...we identify something of ourselves or our lives in what they say. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

6. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Keepers of stories Taxi drivers Back seats of taxis Older people On the bus Statues Buildings – the people who lived there Businesses – through the generations Old trees (been there through it all) Graveyards eg Hugenot Baggot St Archives Streetnames The census 1901, 1911 Street vendors Janitors, Caretakers – Lifers Ruins, derelict sites Songs as stories of Dublin

7. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City D[15] Dublin Fifteen Poems of the City Dublin, Ireland 1997 Collection of poems about the city by well-known Irish poets

8. Newspapers, Worldwide, N/A The Story of our lives...documented with opinions. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

9. Irish Photographic Archive Dublin, Ireland A visual story of our past. (Pictured is 'The Irish House' formerly on the site of the current Dublin City Council Civic Offices.) 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

10. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Streetmuseum Phone App 2010 Images from the Museum of London’s archives are overlaid on their current day equivalent when viewed through an iPhone, visually showing the historical stories of places.

11. Photo of the Day Various Locations March 31 1979 – Oct 25 1997 Photographer as Jamie Livingston took a photo every day for eighteen years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the project “Photo of the Day” and presumably planned to collect them at some point — had he lived. He died on October 25, 1997 — his 41st birthday. After Livingston’s death, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid put together a public exhibit and website using the photos and called it PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997, 6,697 Polaroids, dated in sequence . 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

13. Abandoned Ireland Ireland www.AbandonedIreland.com So what's this Abandoned Ireland thing all about ?? Abandoned Ireland is a personal project started in June 2008 by Tarquin Blake. Record it. Document it. Before it’s gone These places are left falling to ruin. Nobody seems to care. I'm protecting our heritage. TOUCH NOTHING. TAKE NOTHING. LEAVE ONLY FOOTSTEPS 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

14. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Dublin Slang and Vernacular http://homepage.eircom.net/~nobyrne/phrase.htm http://www.yelp.ie/topic/dublin-funny-weird-old-irish-sayings-or-phrases http://goireland.about.com/od/historyculture/qt/irishidioms.htm http://www.slang.ie/index.php?county=Dublin

15. Give Up Your Aul Sins Dublin, Ireland 2001 More than 30 years ago, young Dublin children were recorded on a battered tape recorder as they gave their interpretation of stories from the bible. The story of John the Baptist, is told by a little girl with great passion and an obvious delight in the telling of it.... 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

16. The Nutcracker Russia 1891 In Western countries, The Nutcracker has become perhaps the most popular of all ballets, performed primarily during the Christmas season. In the United States, especially since the 1960s, it has transcended its origins as a mere ballet or piece of classical music, becoming a part of American tradition almost as much as the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz . Countless cities across the U.S. now stage the ballet at Christmas time, and new telecasts, video versions and interpretations of the ballet now appear even more often than before. 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

17. Dreams Things that are alive A dream is a succession of images , sounds or emotions that the mind experiences during sleep . [1] The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is known as oneirology . Dreams are in one way another form of reality. It is said the dreamer receives information and guidance from other sources or maybe from their subconscience. Dreams and aspirations can also be felt in the body. It may take the form of feeling energised or empowered to follow a certain path in life or take a certain action. These feelings and emotions can act as guides or story tellers in helping us through our lives. These dreams can be a portal into creating a new reality. Inventors have came up with innovative ideas when they zone out and allow some other dreams / imagery come into their heads. 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

18. 22/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Title Crooked House Theatre Company Community arts in Ireland is struggling to maintain an identity as an artform which is not defined simply by its ability to impact on community development or community education. This struggle is centred around different perceptions of the remit of the artist in the community. Nevertheless, the ability of the arts (and in particular, of theatre) to impact on community development is unique in that it directly accesses and stimulates the imagination of its participants in a way that no other activity does. According to theorists like Boal and Bond, the imagination is the means by which we can define and shape our society, our humanness, and our concept of justice. 22/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

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20. 22/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City TESTIMONIES Testiomines is a unique and touching groupof monologues based on real life experiences of those who have lost a loved one to suicide. After the pergormance a post show disscussion is held with a counsellor as well as a panel from the smaritans,the irish assocation of suicidology. 22/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

21. Spud & Yam Getting On London Borough of Merton 2007 - Current Kate Corkery and Winston Nzinga are a unique Irish/Jamaican duo of storytellers/musicians known as Spud & Yam. They specialise in developing material which is both educational and entertaining. Kate's Professional background in language teaching, acting and singing together with Winston's wealth of experience as an accomplished percussionist, singer and dancer serve to enrich their collaborative work. - promote racial harmony - encourage positive relationships among diverse groups - promote positive self-esteem in children - increase children's self-confidence - strengthen cross-curricular links between the arts within and across the schools. 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

22. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Living Library – Human for Hire Dublin, Ireland 2009 Meet a living story book. Go to library and book an hour with a person to whom you ask as many questions as you like. Meet an asylums seeker Meet a gay man Meet a pensioner Meet a prisoner http://www.sdublincoco.ie/index.aspx?pageid=939&pid=17104 http://www.infospeak.org/shows/show2/index.htm http://humanlibrary.org/

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26. Augory Everywhere, The Universe Since the beginning of time The augur was a priest and official in the classical world, especially ancient Rome and Etruria . His main role was to interpret the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds : whether they are flying in groups/alone, what noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of birds they are. This was known as "taking the auspices ." The ceremony and function of the augur was central to any major undertaking in Roman society—public or private—including matters of war, commerce, and religion. The Roman historian Livy stresses the importance of the augurs: "Who does not know that this city was founded only after taking the auspices, that everything in war and in peace, at home and abroad, was done only after taking the auspices?" [1] See also animal speak and the language of nature Augory also refers to the land and natural world as well as our built environment. Directions of buildings, shapes, movement etc. all play their part in telling the story. 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

27. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City The Listening Post Science Museum, London 2009 Listening Post is a ‘dynamic portrait’ of online communication, displaying uncensored fragments of text, sampled in real-time, from public internet chatrooms and bulletin boards. Artists Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin have divided their work into seven separate ‘scenes’ akin to movements in a symphony. Each scene has its own ‘internal logic’, sifting, filtering and ordering the text fragments in different ways. By pulling text quotes from thousands of unwitting contributors' postings, Listening Post allows you to experience an extraordinary snapshot of the internet and gain a great sense of the humanity behind the data. The artwork is world renowned as a masterpiece of electronic and contemporary art and a monument to the ways we find to connect with each other and express our identities online.

28. Post Secret International 2005 - ongoing An international project where people send in their secrets anonymously on a postcard. “Community mail art” is how founder Frank Warren describes it. 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

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31. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Pioneer plaque Pioneer 10 spacecraft 1972 An attempt to make the story of humanity comprehensible to any alien species who may encounter it.

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33. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Traces of an Imaginary Affair Bjorn Franken 2009 Designer Björn Franke created a kit for creating evidence of an imaginary affair. It is a device for implying a fictional story.

35. Water Crystals Masauro Emoto, Japan 2009 The scientist performed tests using words and water. He placed certain words such as hate, love, bliss, joy etc, labels on water samples. He froze the samples and recorded the resulting crystal formations. The different words had a huge effect on the shape of the crystals 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

36. 09/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City MacGuffin A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin ) is "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction". [1] The defi nin g aspect of a MacGuffin is that the major players in the story are (at least initially) willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to obtain it, regardless of what the MacGuffin actually is. In fact, the specific nature of the MacGuffin may be ambiguous, undefined, generic, left open to interpretation or otherwise completely unimportant to the plot. Common examples are money, victory, glory, survival, a source of power, or a potential threat, or it may simply be something entirely unexplained.

37. Tattoo Confidential . Com Interwebs Ongoing A website that collects the stories behind people’s tattoos. 10/14/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

39. 22/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Is Anybody Listening Ballymun Partnership and the SOLAS Development centre, with funding from the Ballymun Anti-poverty Network, have launched this action based piece of research into community participation in Ballymun. 10 local women from Ballymun were trained as researchers to carry out this piece of work, entitled Is Anybody Listening? . (This work and the process involved in it build on other pieces of work previously completed in the Partnership, particularly, "Community Participation in Local Development Structures", completed in 2005 - The work was commissioned in late 2005 by the Community Development Working Group of the Partnership with support from the Ballymun Anti-Poverty Network to train up 10 local women as researchers. The focus of the research was to find out about the nature and the level of community participation in Ballymun at the moment. This work was put out to tender and a researcher was appointed to oversee the research training, the research process itself and compilation of the findings into a document. 22/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City