Masako Carey

Availability

Full time resident on the Island of Ireland, available all year round in person or online.

Repertoire

Masako Carey tells stories in schools, libraries, and community venues with people of all ages and abilities. Her increasing repertoire of traditional Japanese tales includes those which are both comical and serious, and she also tells tales from around the world.

Preferred audience

Children, Adults, Festivals, Special Needs

Background experience:

Japanese-born Storyteller Masako Carey has lived in rural Co Antrim since 2001. Masako tells stories in schools, libraries, museums, and community venues with people of all ages and abilities.

As a child, Masako always loved reading and watching animated Japanese folktale stories on TV. The influence of the world of animation, combined with her experience as a kindergarten teacher at an international school, gives Masako a unique storytelling style. Her increasing repertoire of traditional Japanese tales includes both comical and serious tales, and she also tells tales from around the world.

She was a featured storyteller at Belfast Mela, the Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival, Glens of Antrim Storytelling Festival, Wicklow YARN Storytelling Festival, and Galway Moth & Butterfly International Festival of Storytelling and Improvisation.

Masako also performs One Person Japanese story show ‘お話しOhanashi’.

I tell stories appropriate to various age groups and abilities. For early age groups, more Interactive stories and activities are used.   

If there are some specific themes, I will be happy to incorporate them. This could include origami workshop, singing/movement activities, and group artwork.

I am certified Level 3 Delivering Cultural Awareness Training Trainer and give one-hour Cultural Experience through PowerPoint presentation, storytelling, and origami demonstration (recommended age 7 and above).

For older children and adults, I do Workshop about Hiroshima/Nagasaki and Atomic Bomb (recommended age 12 and above). This could include a story about a child Sadako, PowerPoint Presentation about the facts, making of origami Paper Crane, Group Peace Art, and calligraphy experience of writing Peace in Japanese (1h-4h)

I am listed in Poetry of Island Writers in the school scheme. For schools, you could book me through this.