Georgiana Keable is a storytelling pioneer. She started out with the Storytelling Nursery in Reading, drawing on Steiner Waldorf early years education. She has taught storytelling at Oslo University since 1997 and launched the Norwegian Storytelling Festival. In 2002 she started The Storytelling House (Fortellerhuset) with storytellers from three continents.
Georgiana tells stories reflecting our relationship with nature. Often outside, walking and telling with teenagers, sensing the forest, the weather and the sea. She also travels, sleeping in a hammock and collecting stories from strangers.
As well as telling stories to thousands of children in Norway, Georgiana teaches at outdoor learning centres in Slovenia and at The Forest Schools Conference in the UK. She toured North America with adult and children’s shows based on her first Hawthorn Press book, The Natural Storyteller: Wildlife tales for telling.
In 2015 she received the Oslo Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Art in Oslo.
Author’s Books
Fairytales, Families & Forests: Storytelling with young children
Georgiana Keable & Dawne McFarlane, illustrated by Araiz Mesanza
You will discover that you are a storyteller. As you tell your fairytale, your children will open their eyes wide and stare at you in wonder. But they won’t see you. They will look through you to a world of magic and mountains connecting them with nature. Read more →
The Natural Storyteller: Wildlife Tales for Telling
Georgiana Keable
The Natural Storyteller is full of dynamic story seeds. When you open the book and read a story seed, you plant it in yourself, unleashing courage, creativity and love of nature. Read more →
Links
Read more about Georgiana Keable’s work on her website.
A Pilgrim’s Way – with their feet they understand their roots. Along the Pilgrims way in Oslo, year sixes from all the local schools experience for themselves the 1,000 year-old Pilgrim tradition.