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Storytelling is one of the earliest forms of folkart.

Popularity
The development of the print publishing business led to reading replacing listening, this decline in storytelling was amplified with the invention of television. Recent decades, have seen a renewed interest and popularity in the art of storytelling.

Location
Story telling is performed any where there is a story teller and a willing listener.
The bedtime story, told by a parent to a young child at bedtime remains the most popular leisure time activity, comforting, informing and bonding child to parent.

Age
All ages can tell stories.
Older people have the benefit of experience and personal memories to draw on when telling a story.
Children should be encouraged as a means of confidence building and of expressing themselves in public.

Description
Some storytellers tell stories from their own imagination. Other stories have been gathered, sometimes adapted from books and other storytellers. Folklore stories such as myths, epics, legends, and fables continue to be favorites.

Dedication
In olden days story telling was the only way of passing on to future generations news, historic events and experiences. Nowadays it is performed as an entertainment and as an important way of preserving local dialects in a living form.

Potential
A competent storyteller who is able to embellish a story. personalising too, and involving the listeners into the tale being told, will always be in demand of his or her talents.

Closely Related Activities
Town Crier 611, Busking 665. Talking Letters 599.

Cost
There are no direct costs involved with Story telling. There may be optional props used to embelish the story telling, this is at the story tellers discretion, and are normally of nominal cost.

Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.

Energy

Arms

Legs

Sight

Hearing

Speech

Learning

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