About the festival
We Love Stories is international storytelling and performing arts festival that takes place in Chania, Crete. Through literature, visual, and performing arts we share stories and folk tales from different parts of the world with the participation of international artists.
It is organized by STORY FOR FOOD (SFF), a Berlin-based international platform for collecting and archiving oral stories. SFF audio collects and archives anonymous stories that would otherwise be lost, and exchanges them for food. Co-organizers of the festival are the Region of Crete, the Municipality of Chania, and the OurStories Foundation.
The second edition of We Love Stories is dedicated to WOMEN.
From ancient myths to folk tales, from polyphonic songs to poetry and short stories, the festival aspires to celebrate women in motherhood and in love, talk about their relationship with time and their bodies, speak of gender violence, and reflect on the place of women in modern family and society. Through storytelling, theatre and dance performances, we will share light and dark aspects of the role of women in the past and in the present. With the participation of artists from Greece, Italy, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, France, Israel, and Spain.
The second edition of We Love Stories took place in September 2022 at the San Salvatore Promenade in Chania, Crete, with free admission.
Organized by STORY FOR FOOD in collaboration with the NGO OurStories and the support of the Region of Chania and the Municipality of Chania.
Participants
Eftixia Tsoukala (Greece), Katerina Zacharopoulou (Greece), Dimitra Kandia (Greece), Claire Kountouri (Greece), Aliki Atsalaki (Greece), Irini Poulou (Greece), Christina Kyriazidi (Greece), Manolis Zografakis (greece), Nikos Blazakis (Greece), Eleftheria Blazaki (Greece), Manolis Arfaras (Greece), Maria Tsouknaki (Greece), Zoe Diamantopoulou (Greece), Lefteris Giannakoudakis (Greece), Marina Christodoulaki (Greece), Nikoleta Dafnou (Greece), Maria Kritsotaki (Greece), Dimitra Valavani (Greece), Maria Mentez (Guatemala), Daniela Marcozzi (Italy), Lorena Atrakzy (Israel), Claire Fontanille (France), Angela Monaco (Italy), Saraï O'gara (Spain), Johanna Schlottke (Germany), Smári Gudmundsson (Iceland)