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2019 Highlights:

Audio-description debut describing SRT’s Gretel and Hansel, for blind patrons; As You Like It (Lasalle - July); VSA Welcome To My World concert; and Emily of Emerald Hill (Wild Rice -Sept) and Peter Pan (Wild Rice)

Corporate storytelling: SUSS (fostering teamwork through story - interactive storygami for 650 staff at MBS); Maritime Port Authority (storytelling for middle-management) SIT: Teambonding for Diversity/Inclusion

Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden: monthly eco-themed storytelling (48 performances)

Gateway Theatre: monthly young family-themed storytelling

Words-go-Round (NAC): storytelling + sign interpreting with Gophi Nathan (hearing-impaired)

Fullerton Hotel: monthly, family-focused river-themed storytelling

Alliance Francaise Music Festival: bi-lingual storytelling with Alice Bianchi-Clark accompanied by Ni Jiawei (guzheng)

Audiobook recording for Storytel: The Reporter’s Notebook by Dennis Bloodworth; Crime Scene Asia; 18 Walls by Teo Xue Shen; The Brigadier’s Daughter by Paul Callan; plus contract to record 5 more in 2020;

SG Enable, sponsorship of extended disability themed storytelling programmes at the Enabling Village, with Story Connection

Delta Senior School: storytelling with puppets with intellectually impaired teenagers;

Singapore Writers Festival (Nov) storytelling/sign interpreting with Gophi Nathan (hearing-impaired)

International:

• Jakarta Int’l story Festival,
• Kolkota Int’l Story Festival (Nov);
• Vitaz Junior Literary Festival (Visakhapatnam - Nov)  
• FEAST Storyteller’s Conference (Bangalore - Nov);
• comedy drama Singapore/Bangkok/Yangon organized by Italian Embassy (Oct);
• Federation of Asian Storytellers: webinar on using puppets in storytelling
• Virtual Storytelling Guild (run by Northeast Storytelling, Maine USA) – told four stories live on-line,

Organised/participated in 2-day workshop by Louise Coigley on Storytelling for People with Special Communication Needs (autism)

2018 Highlights:

Federation of Asian Storytellers (FEAST) Co-founding Director,

International

• Sarawak Children’s Festival (Kuching and Miri)
• Chennai (Under the Alamaraam Storytelling Festival)
• Penang (8th PINKS Storytelling Festival - October)
• Brunei (storytelling performance and teacher workshop)

National Parks, storytelling (48 sessions) and interactive drama (30) at Jacob Ballas Garden (till 2019)

 The Unusual School story master-class for seven visually-impaired adults

Corporate:

• Shell Future Narrative Conference (organizational storytelling) – Miri, June.
• Gardens by the Bay (storigami on Ready, Respond, Respectfiul)
• A-STAR townhall (organizational storytelling – storigami 600 staff)
• Singapore Polytechnic (Service Excellence : storigami for 300 staff)
• The Hour Glass: storytelling and the sale of luxury watches

Singapore Kindness Movement (storytelling training for kindergarten teachers)

National Library Board: storytelling training for 140 PCF pre-school teachers

National Library Board: (55 performances of story+music for preschools)

2017 Highlights:

Ministry of Education, Media Dept: workshop, Creating Compelling Story Videos

Institute Mental Health, workshop for Health Ambassadors (telling recovery stories)

International

• Bangkok 5th International Storytelling Festival
• Kuala Lumpur Story Festival (keynote presenter/performer)

National Gallery appoints Roger to conduct Stories Through Art programme for 2017/18

Founding Director, Story Carnival@Enabling Village (a celebration of Inclusion)

NLB: trainer for Kidsread volunteers programme (2017 – 2019)

NLB: 60 sessions in special needs schools – storytelling + craft

NLB storytelling in 40 pre-schools

Awards

2013   Best Storyteller, 16th Kanoon International Storytelling Festival, (Iran)

1995  Singapore Literature Prize: From the Belly of the Carp (poetry anthology)

1990  Friend of the Deaf (award by Singapore Association of the Deaf)

Positions held :

• Director, Roger Jenkins Pte Ltd  (2007 - present)
• Director, Story Connection Ltd  (pro bono; 2015 - present)
• Director, Federation of Asian Storytellers Ltd (pro bono;  2018-present

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