House of West Wind: Annual Christmas Lecture

Theme: Where Does my Story come from?: Honouring the Source in Storytelling in times of multiplicity by Gauri Raje

We live in times of travel - words travel, images travel, people move or are moved. Stories have always moved and shape-shifted. So why is this question so urgent? What do oral cultures tell us about honouring sources? How are sources acknowledged in oral cultures? What is ‘colonial’ in the framing of the notion of ‘acknowledging the source’?

All these and more contradictions in the vexed conversations about acknowledging sources. Lets see how this evening shapeshifts as we approach the new year.

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