Academic Journal
Building communities and empowering individuals through multilingual storytelling
| Title: | Building communities and empowering individuals through multilingual storytelling |
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| Authors: | Andrusiak, Iryna, Blumczynski, Piotr, Ciribuco, Andrea, O'Connor, Anne, Shaughnessy, Lorna, Soye, Emma |
| Source: | Andrusiak, I, Blumczynski, P, Ciribuco, A, O'Connor, A, Shaughnessy, L & Soye, E 2025, 'Building communities and empowering individuals through multilingual storytelling', Encounters in Translation, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.35562/encounters-in-translation.1213 |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Collection: | Queen's University Belfast: Research Portal |
| Subject Terms: | multilingualism, storytelling, practice-based research, community translation, creative translation |
| Description: | This study focuses on the potential of multilingual storytelling practices as tools for both individual development and for building connections in an urban setting. We present the results of practice-based research carried out with multilingual individuals in two different settings on the island of Ireland (Galway and Belfast) between October 2023 and May 2024. Two teams of researchers organized multilingual storytelling workshops with the goal of building a multilingual space of solidarity through the arts, where participants and facilitators could collaborate to share different cultural practices and languages. The workshops were translational in many ways. The participants translated back and forth between English and several languages, adapted storytelling conventions, transposed narratives across media (e.g., from printed book to oral storytelling), and reframed different parts of their own cultural identities to different audiences. Focusing on different genres of stories—and often blurring the distinctions between stories and their translations—the Galway and Belfast workshops provide complementary findings and avenues for exploration of how storytelling techniques can constitute a translation of the self and an encounter with others, that can be deployed as a methodology for community building and personal development. |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 3038-5342 |
| Relation: | info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pissn/3038-5342 |
| DOI: | 10.35562/encounters-in-translation.1213 |
| Availability: | https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/464c87a9-bcd2-4b0b-afc8-2fb17600c950 https://doi.org/10.35562/encounters-in-translation.1213 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.B8E31ACF |
| Database: | BASE |
| ISSN: | 30385342 |
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| DOI: | 10.35562/encounters-in-translation.1213 |