As the day of the final Village Narrative Workshop is approaching, it is time for us to review the previous (third) workshop. Actually, the previous workshop was already a while ago in October. Besides our usual members of the experienced tour guides, our two pivotal villagers, 施姐 and 群姐 have also joined us with honours and shared with our public participants their intriguing stories of living in the village.

During the afternoon sharing session, when one of the participants depicted the sensory experience that impressed her the most, she didn’t have to think of it much and blurted out “the sense of taste”. The answer shocked us since the narrative workshop does not have a food-tasting session, and really few people would rank taste as the first priority. The participant then further elaborated that the tour guides /villagers introduced many food-related stories and they were very well described, which provoked her imagination. Such as honeybee pupae and steamed pork owl (zyu1 juk6 but1), are both memorable to her. I cannot agree more after listening to her as to realize that story isn’t just words, but the description of words and phrases can lead to many more to picture, senses and emotions.

Our last narrative workshop is coming soon. Are you ready to meet us and listen to stories? Can’t wait!

Spoiler Alert: The story that the participant mentioned was also included in our Yim Tin Tsai stories collection; if you want to know what happened, you must keep following us on Facebook and Instagram for updates!

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