Learning Lore

This pod cast is recorded live infront of an audience at the music and storytelling festival in Ljungby 13th of June 2025.

Svend-Erik Engh, are a Danish storyteller based in Edinburgh. He brings Viking sagas, Norse myths, and Scandinavian folktales to life with a vivid, physical style shaped by his training at Odin Teatret. With over 30 years of experience, he has performed across the UK and Europe, including acclaimed shows like GIANTS and Gullrun’s Saga. His collaborations with illustrator Tea Bendix have led to stage productions and the book Danish Folk Tales (The History Press, 2023). He has giving storytelling workshops for schools and storytellers. Neil Sutcliffe is an accordionist and folksinger from Scotland. After completing the degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he has built a performing career encompassing both traditional and classical music.

Together Neil and Svend-Erik have created Walk the Oars, Wolves Within and Gullruns Saga, the latter part of the the music and storytelling festival in Ljungby.

In this pod cast Neil plays accordion and Svend-Erik tells a folktale and we all consider the power of storytelling.

Swedish storyteller, singer and folk musician. 2014 she started a Masters at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, a masters that came to focus on learning and creating by copying. This lead to her creating a series of performances with the Eddic Poem Voluspá, copying masters of different epic singing- and storytelling traditions around the world. At the moment she is touring The Hairy Girl, a storytelling performance in English, telling a Norwegian fairytale with a big Japanese Taiko Drum. Kersti has worked a lot as a storyteller in schools, often letting children take over her stories and tell them themselves. Now she is part of the Storyraiders, a group introducing the Swedish concept of Storyraids to primary schools in the UK.  

Dr. Camilla Brudin Borg is a Senior Lecturer inLiterary Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work focuses on innovative methodological development at the intersection of ecocriticism, narrative studies, andliterary futures. She leads research projects that explore the use of utopian genres as creative tools for imagining a wider range of possible futures. Her collaborations includeclimate researchers, environmental education experts, citizens, and students.

 In 2022, Dr. Brudin Borg was invited to participate as a panelist during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, where she discussed “The Future of Life” and her explorative work on utopian methodologies to envision sustainable future imaginaries.

 She is also the founder and leader of the international research network One by Walking, where she contributes with investigations in transdisciplinary methodological perspectives on narration and walking, with a focus on long-distance hiking.

 Additionally, she is the co-editor of Contemporary Ecocritical Methods (2024) and the editor of Framtidsutopier (2023), a collection of new ecological utopian stories to be used in schools.

Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, where she works, among other things, on questions of time and temporality, futures and storytelling in shaping how societies think about education, and educational purpose.  She leads the British Academy Programme ‘Times of a Just Transition’ – which is looking at how ideas of time, and temporal narratives, shape how societies frame and address sustainability challenges. You have worked for 25 years on the role of formal and popular education in uncertain times.  

Steve is a Clinical Psychologist and Storyteller who loves to work at the interface of these two areas- He is interested in how stories and storytelling can be applied in education and health and has written several books and papers in this area. He has written Telling Tales-Storytelling and Emotional Literacy - with Taffy Thomas - and Feelings are Funny Things-A storytelling toolkit' for schools - with Phil Okwedy. He has been very involved in the development of a project for schools, 'Feelings are Funny Things' which uses stories to explore our emotional lives in a way that safe and playful. He has taught, performed and run workshops at many universitas and storytelling festivals throughout Europe and is a Visiting Fellow at Centre for Storytelling, University of South Wales.

Mimesis

Sally Windsor is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and International Education here at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies at the University of Gothenburg. She teach courses in Education for Sustainable Development, and International and Global Education. Her research interests include creative and arts-based teaching for sustainability, and climate change education. She is especially interested in teaching about social sustainability in terms of understanding “living well”  together in a “world worth living in” and has recently been involved in an international ‘listening project’ named just that “Living well in a world with living in for all”.  

Trained at the Drama School Jacques Lecoq  in Paris, Abbi Patrixhas been exploring the art of storytelling for the past thirty years .His workis at the cross-roads of theatre, music and movement,on a permanent quest fornew ways and voices to enrich the form of storytelling.To transmit his searchto young générations of storytellers he created in France and in europe« the labo », a collective and multi-disciplinary space for research,improvisation and transmission.He is a founding member of Fest.

Dominic Kelly is an international

As a member of Stockholm-based company Fabula Storytelling, he has directed performances at theatres and arts centres across Scandinavia, including Norway’s Riksscenen.

He has helped thousands of young people find their narrative voice through projects in schools across the UK and Sweden, particularly in areas of high social deprivation in England.