Cambridge Storytellers   About Us Some of us feel that we are reviving, or keeping alive, an ancient tradition from a pre-literate past: some of us feel we are creating a new artform for the new millennium, drawing on a contemporary oral tradition that includes stand-up comedy and rap.  But all of us know that everyone tells stories all the time, at home, at work, at school, in the supermarket check-out and on the phone.  At Cambridge Storytellers we believe strongly that everyone has a story to tell.  We aim to hear, and to enable people to tell their stories. You can find out more about what we are doing, here, on our website or you may contact us by email: cambridgestorytellers@gmail.com or phone: 01223 510756 Marion Leeper July 2007 Founded in 1998 by Peter Hilken with a small group of friends, we have grown to a group of over 30 core members, paying annual subscriptions, but we also welcome larger audiences drawn from all over the Cambridge area.  As well as our regular meetings, we put on special events such as workshops, rehearsed group tellings, and, for the first time in 2007, a storytelling festival.  We are affiliated to the national Society for Storytelling and have hosted events for them. So what do we mean by storytelling and why do we do it?  When we tell stories, we don’t read from books: we don’t recite from memory.  We hear, or find stories from all over the world, and retell them in as many different styles as there are people present.  Sometimes we change them completely, improvising new elements or revising them to fit the modern world: sometimes we keep closely to the traditional language of earlier versions.  Sometimes our stories come from our personal, family or community traditions: sometimes we search for the oldest, the strangest, the most distant stories we can find.