398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: All Aboard for China
Sat, Nov 19, 2022
Ang Mo Kio Public Library – Programme Zone • Singapore
Free
Ang Mo Kio Public Library – Programme Zone • Singapore
[Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: All Aboard for China
Sat, Nov 19, 2022
Free
398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Flying to Japan
Sun, Nov 20, 2022
Toa Payoh Public Library (Programme Zone Level 3) • Singapore
Free
Toa Payoh Public Library (Programme Zone Level 3) • Singapore
[Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Heading to Malaysia & Indonesia
Mon, Nov 21, 2022
Free
[Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Flying to India
Tue, Nov 22, 2022
Free
[Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Exploring Europe
Wed, Nov 23, 2022
Free
[Malay] [Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Fables
Thu, Nov 24, 2022
Free
[Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Home Sweet Home
Fri, Nov 25, 2022
Free
[For Adults] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Detours and Disasters
Sat, Nov 26, 2022
library@harbourfront (Programme Zone 2) • Singapore
Free
library@harbourfront (Programme Zone 2) • Singapore
[Adults] [Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Detours and Disaster
Sat, Nov 26, 2022
Free
398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Into the Forest
Sun, Nov 27, 2022
Choa Chu Kang Public Library – Programme Zones 1 & 2 • Singapore
Free
Choa Chu Kang Public Library – Programme Zones 1 & 2 • Singapore
[Chinese] [Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Jungle Announcement
Mon, Nov 28, 2022
Free
[Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Through the Air
Tue, Nov 29, 2022
Free
[Tamil] [Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Tricksters’ Tales
Wed, Nov 30, 2022
Free
[Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Unusual Travelling Companions
Thu, Dec 1, 2022
Free
[Online] 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2022: Quests
Fri, Dec 2, 2022
Free
Register for the 2024 Festival!
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This is the 9th year of Singapore’s longest-running storytelling Festival.
Following the success of the 398.2 in 2022, the Storytelling Association (Singapore) is delighted to present this year’s Festival which, with your creativity, passion and talent, will surely be the highlight of Singapore’s storytelling year. Our theme is SPINNING TALES and we look forward to collectively weaving a colourful tapestry with many different threads, with 18 sessions tailored to our different audiences as we spin yarns and comic stories (to leave the audience in stitches?) turning rough words into golden stories.
Glimpses of the Festival in 2023
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Highlights of 2023 festival
Highlights of the special needs segment
398.2 STORYTELLING FESTIVAL 2023
This is the 9th year of Singapore’s longest-running storytelling Festival.
Our theme for 2023 is SPINNING TALES and we collectively weaved a colourful tapestry with many different threads — 18 sessions tailored to our different audiences (including one for special needs) as we spun yarns and comic stories (to leave the audience in stitches?) turning rough words into golden stories.
Highlights of the Peranakan Stories & Tea
Glimpses of the Festival in 2022
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398.2 STORYTELLING FESTIVAL 2022
This is the eighth year of Singapore’s longest-running storytelling Festival.
The 13 family themed sessions were supported by a digital resource pack which was created specifically for the Festival, offering both information about the places visited as well as a variety of creative activities targeted at the 4- 6 and 7- 9 age groups. The pack aimed to foster post session engagement and reflection, while providing fun activities that the child could do alone or interacting with the parent(s).
The theme for this year’s 398.2 Storytelling Festival was “Journeys: Adventures and Diversions”. The festival kicked off with the Launch on 19 November. This was a hybrid event, onsite at Ang Mo Kio Public Library and on Zoom and then daily shows of online and face-to-face with an adult show, a hybrid event at Harbourfront Library and on Zoom. The official song of 398.2 Storytelling Festival, which welcomed the audience at every session, tells the spirit of the festival:
398.2, a happy place for you !
For all sorts of stories,
For kids and adults too.
There is sure to be a story that feels just right for you,
So come along and join us at the 398.2 !
So come along and join us at the 398.2 !
For all sorts of stories,
For kids and adults too.
There is sure to be a story that feels just right for you,
So come along and join us at the 398.2 !
So come along and join us at the 398.2 !
SAS has been communicating with the National Library Board (NLB) regarding the festival since the beginning of the year.
The 398.2 Storytelling Festival is a free, family targeted storytelling festival featuring the storytellers of Singapore, both professional and skilled amateur, which is held every November/December. The name 398.2 alludes to the Dewey classification number for folktale books.
This event is a collaboration with the National Library Board and we aim to make sure the event is diverse and accessible. We will feature both online storytelling as well as face-to-face storytelling. This is a great opportunity for our Association to promote the oral storytelling, the ancient artform of telling stories (not reading aloud stories).
THE PROCEDURE
There will be a different theme for each session. Please choose 5 or 6 sessions on the dates that you are available and we will do our best to put together programmes of stories that go well with each other.
After you have submitted your stories on the online form, our working committee will endeavour to ensure that every member gets an allocation. Our aim is to create an engaging and interesting programme for the audience. Therefore, we appreciate your understanding and support while we choose stories and slots to match.
Please express your interest, availability and preferences by 23rd July 2022.
We recommend that you read the form on the computer than the handphone. This form has a save and continue feature. After you have filled one or two pages, you may save and come back to the form another time. You will be asked to create a jotform account. The moment you save your form, you will receive the link to the unfinished form in your email.
VOLUNTEER BEHIND-THE-SCENES
We are also looking for volunteers to help with the planning and administrative duties during the festival. If you don’t want to tell stories but want to carry out community service, we welcome family, friends and non-members to make this festival a success. Please provide your name and preferred duties in the link if you would like to volunteer.
If you have questions and concerns or are new to this and don’t know how to start, please feel free to contact me.
We thank you for volunteering to tell in in the Festival and are confident that the experience will be a fruitful and enriching one.
Glimpses of the Festival in 2021
398.2 STORYTELLING FESTIVAL 2021
The 398.2 Storytelling festival 2021 was a smashing success!
We are proud that a whopping 4562 children participated and enjoyed the 18 childrens’ session spread across September to November. Total participants for adult sessions – 300 + – again, an exceptional response!
We are thankful to all our SAS storytellers who shared their stories with all their hearts braving the challenges of this new digital medium. This is the first year we have experimented with a hybrid (digital + live) model and it has been an enriching learning experience.
A special shout out to our admin team and our partners the National Library board without whom this could not have succeeded.
Glimpses of the Festival before 2020
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