The Storymakers Institute with Joel Carnegie
The Storymakers Institute with Joel Carnegie
"I have a lot of doubts about storytelling" with Mayu Kanamori
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"I have a lot of doubts about storytelling" with Mayu Kanamori

"Storytelling has long been tied up to formulaic story arcs. But stories are about life and it’s not neat."

This week - Mayu Kanamori joins The Storymakers Institute - a Tokyo born artist living on Eora Country, Sydney. She take photographs, makes collages, films and edits art documentaries, writes plays, performances, and poems.

In this episode, she shares her doubts about storytelling, her frustrations about happy endings and dinner parties, and about breaking out of the mould of your own biography. Uncover more about her work here.

“Storytelling for a long time has been tied up to formulaic story arcs, but stories are about life - and it’s not neat. And these formulas often demand the storyteller to make it neat.” - Mayu Kanamori

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Your front-row pass to the world's most intriguing storytellers. Hosted by award-winning Australian storymaker, Joel Carnegie, meet the people behind the stories that shape our world.