TEHRAN (IBNA ) -- The ‎‎23rd Iran’s International Storytelling Festival which kicked off on December ‎‎16 and will run by December 21 is hosting 22 foreign storytellers from 17 countries of 5 ‎continents.
Storytellers from 5 continents including Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe are participating in the international section of the festival, public and international department of the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (CIDCYA or Kanoon) reported.
22 foreign participants and 19 Iranian participants from Tehran, Isfahan, Khorasan Razavi, Kordestan, Markazi, East Azerbaijan, Qazvin, Yazd, West Azerbaijan, Bushehr, and Khuzestan will compete in the international section of the festival.
Due to coronavirus pandemic, the organizers had to hold this edition of the festival in three stages of provincial, Iranian and International. Among 27000 works which were submitted to the festival finally 81 Iranian and foreign storytellers reached the final stage.
Among the foreign storytellers of the festival are: Usha Venkatraman and Devaki Bhujang Gajare from India, Marcela Sabio from Argentina, Beatriz Quintana Valle from Cuba, Raquel Lopez Cascales from Spain, Ruben Corbett from Mexico, Baeletsi Tsatsi from South Africa, Argin Kubin from Turkey, Ahmad Rashedi from Oman, Raida Guermazi from Tunisia, Boniface Ofogo from Cameroon, Haytham Shokry from Egypt and Patrick Mohr from Switzerland.
A jury member from Lebanon Sara Qasir and a workshop instructor from Brazil Antonio Rocha will also attend the event.
This event is displayed through CIDCYA official page in Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/kanoonparvaresh, Aparat website at: https://www.aparat.com/Kanoonparvaresh/live , CIDCYA portal at: kpf.ir and finally CIDCYA News Site at: www.kanoonnews.ir.