04:42What's the story? Festival gathers storytellers from around the world
Thousands of visitors gathered in Marrakesh on Thursday to witness the Marrakesh International Storytelling Festival take place.
Storytellers from all over the world took part in the event, with an audience gathering to watch the storytellers performing their millenia-old tradition.
Zohair Khaznaoui, the festival's manager, said "We got lucky because every storyteller we called said they will join because this festival is being organized without a budget. No one is getting paid, neither the volunteers nor the organizers. It is an important festival for Marrakesh because it helps revive the cultural traditions in the city."
Storytellers' methods of performing also varied from culture to culture. Zahra Afsah, a storyteller from Iran, said "it is part of, I can say, every Iranian because also of the poetry and Persians, Iranians, especially the older generation, they carry lines and lines of poetry and they recite that so naturally."
Another storyteller from Finland named Rikka Palonen said they were trying to keep the tradition going in her native land since "people don't have time anymore to sit down and listen."
04:42Thousands of visitors gathered in Marrakesh on Thursday to witness the Marrakesh International Storytelling Festival take place.
Storytellers from all over the world took part in the event, with an audience gathering to watch the storytellers performing their millenia-old tradition.
Zohair Khaznaoui, the festival's manager, said "We got lucky because every storyteller we called said they will join because this festival is being organized without a budget. No one is getting paid, neither the volunteers nor the organizers. It is an important festival for Marrakesh because it helps revive the cultural traditions in the city."
Storytellers' methods of performing also varied from culture to culture. Zahra Afsah, a storyteller from Iran, said "it is part of, I can say, every Iranian because also of the poetry and Persians, Iranians, especially the older generation, they carry lines and lines of poetry and they recite that so naturally."
Another storyteller from Finland named Rikka Palonen said they were trying to keep the tradition going in her native land since "people don't have time anymore to sit down and listen."