Styreleder Georgiana Keable.
Nestleder Helene Bøhler
Økonomi Mari Jerstad
Styremedlemmer: Dene Hjorth-Jenssen og Paal Joachim Romdahl
Styreleder Georgiana Keable.
Georgiana is a pioneer for rebirth of Storytelling and for Environmental storytelling. Storywalks in the forests and mountains of Norway reach thousands of teenagers annually. She started the Storytelling House (Fortellerhuset), founded the Norwegian Storytelling Festival and received Oslo’s Artists Prize for outstanding contribution to cultural life.
Georgiana loves stories reflecting our relation with Nature. As a medieval pilgrim on the Pilgrims way or as the botanist Marianne North she tells at the site of the Viking ship burial in South Norway. She also walks, sleeping in a hammock and collecting stories from strangers about how people and nature are connected.
She has told at festivals worldwide and Hawthorn press published ‘The Natural Storyteller’, which won 1st prize on the Purple Dragonfly children’s book awards as best green book and one of 5 gold medals from Moonbeam Spirit Awards 2018. The book is now also available as an audiobook and her new book ‘The Natural Storyteller for younger children[GK1] ’ is due to be released in 2020.
Georgiana is co-ordinator for Artivism in the environmental group Extinction Rebellion Norway. She is also a bee-keeper and passionate about rewilding.