About Aleppo
Tellers and listeners met in Cologne to exchange their experiences of Aleppo. The result is a series of short video narrations.
Open projectTELLME – Personal Stories
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Personal stories, made visible.
Tell Me is an international artistic initiative for personal storytelling, performance, education and intercultural exchange.
View projectsWho we are
Stories become artistic encounters.
The initiative works with personal narratives through workshops, performance, video and public presentation. It brings artists, educators, ethnologists and cultural workers into shared processes where individual experiences can be listened to, shaped and made visible.
Projects
Selected projects
A concise archive of storytelling, performance, education and documentary work.
Artists in Encounter
A creative residence in Bagamoyo where artists from Tanzania and Germany built performances from individual life experiences.
Open projectLifeworlds
Workshops in three cities where participants transposed personal backgrounds into short videos using Digital Storytelling.
Open projectUrban Explorations
A collaborative project during Nairobi Festival of Performance and Media Arts, shaped through art and urban space.
Open projectI. d. R. Bildungsarbeit
Workshops with young adults on gender understanding, empowerment and open educational dialogue.
Open projectI. d. R. verschwiegen
A story parcours on menstruation and silence, developed with storytelling, contemporary dance, theatre and anthropology.
Open projectMethod
Listen, exchange, record, perform, share.
01
Listen
Zuhören
We begin with time. Personal stories are met slowly, in confidence, and on the terms of the person telling them.
02
Exchange
Austausch
Artists, ethnologists and educators work alongside participants, so meaning is built together rather than collected.
03
Record
Aufzeichnen
Voices, images and gestures are documented on video and in text, forming an archive the participants recognise as their own.
04
Perform
Aufführen
The material is translated into multidisciplinary performance — movement, sound, spoken word and projection.
05
Share
Teilen
Work returns to audiences, schools and communities through showings, workshops and documentation.
Video documentation
Performances and workshops are documented on video. Vimeo privacy settings can be adjusted later so videos play directly on the final domain.