The Cassandra toolbox is finalised
This is a practical guide for building an artist development program for socially engaged storytellers. A EU-project that five european Storytelling Festivals has been exploring and developing during 2024-2026.
How can storytellers convey personal messages and deal with social challenges through performative and artistic strategies?
The Cassandra Project explored this question by empowering young storytellers (ages 18–30) to develop their voices as socially engaged performers. Across Europe, participants combined personal narratives with community research, artistic experimentation, and mentorship to create performances that speak to issues of shared concern.
We also created a Toolbox for anyone who wants to develop socially engaged storytelling programs. It contains everything that we think you might need: recruitment strategies, workshop plans, activities, exercises, interviews, case studies, ready to implement and in a variety of formats: documents, scripts, podcasts, films.
We hope that you’ll use this toolbox, that you’ll adapt it for your own work. So, what are you waiting for? The future needs storytellers!
Click here to visit the Cassandra Toolbox
Read more about the Cassandra project
Creative project partners was: Fortellerfestivalen (Norway), Storytelling Network of Kronoberg (Sweden), Stowarzyszenie “Grupa Studnia O.” (Poland), Storytelling Centre Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Landcommanderij Alden Biesen (Belgium)
