”Roger Jenkins, using only the words of folktales and symbolic gestures, opens windows on to Asian jungles, Malaysian villages and lands where man and animal interact and the path to wisdom is forged.
Some of the best characteristics of the Festival are displayed here - intimate in delivery, personal in approach, valuing its audience highly and transcending venue constraints, this is memorable theatre with an internationally relevant message.”
Some of the best characteristics of the Festival are displayed here -
Review from
THREE WEEKS
official magazine of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
21 August 2007
THREE WEEKS
official magazine of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
21 August 2007
2006
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appointed as Storytelling Consultant to Pearsons in Hong Kong, where I also conducted story workshops for both the SAR Government’s kindergarten and Native-
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the International Storytellers Showcase (Singapore) & Longmans Storytelling Festival with Cathy Spagnoli (HK)
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2005
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the International Storytellers Showcase (Singapore) & Longmans Storytelling Festival (Hong Kong) with Karen Tovell
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2004
· I founded Story Caravan, which offered free monthly sessions in Singapore’s National Parks from 2004-2006;
2003
· the National Book Development Council of Singapore invited me to co-ordinate its inaugural public showcase at the Asian Congress of Storytellers. I continued to host/co-ordinate the Showcase from 2004 – 06
2000
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the Ministry of Education Curriculum Planning Dept commissioned me to direct three storytelling videos for lower and upper Primary, and lower secondary students. Both continue to be a popular classroom resource.
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Roger has told stories in primary and secondary schools, in libraries, at community functions and corporate events. His dramatisations of Asian folktales have toured schools as part of the National Arts Council Arts Education Programme.