Jane Blake

 

Bio
Jan Blake is one of the leading storytellers, and has been performing worldwide since
1986. Specialising in stories from Africa, the Caribbean, and Arabia she has a reputation
for dynamic and generous storytelling. Recent highlights include Hay Festival, Kenya,
where she performed All Things Are Connected for the United Nations Environment
Programme and, at the Barbican, her retelling of the Sundiata Keita, the West African
epic, with musicians Kouame & Raymond Sereba. She will be the 2011 recipient of the
biannual Thuringe Marchen Preis, awarded to scholars or performers who have devoted
their lives to the service of storytelling.





33rd Annual TESOL Greece International Convention