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The Storytelling Network of Kronoberg is an accredited NGO to the UNESCO 2003 Convention. The Network runs the Land of Legends program, which has been inscribed on the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices at UNESCO since 2018. The organization was established in 1990, and for more than thirty years, it has been developing, testing, implementing, and supervising a growing range of activities that have succeeded in raising the visibility of storytelling. It has been attracting steady support among the local population and authorities in three contiguous municipalities of the Kronoberg region: Ljungby, Älmhult, and Alvesta in the south of Sweden.
The Storytelling Network runs Sagobygden, which consists of Sagobygden’s music and storytelling festival, with around fifty artists and over two thousand listeners. The Museum of Legends is where we have made visible some of the fairytales and legends that were collected in this area during the nineteenth century. With forty-three story locations and location-specific stories placed in red cabinets, Sagobygden also has a wide range of educational work for all ages and at several levels and runs projects in collaboration with other actors both within Sweden and abroad. |
