About The National Storytelling Festival • October 4-6, 2024

Since its launch in 1973, the annual National Storytelling Festival, held every first week of October in Jonesborough, Tennessee, has been America’s foremost storytelling showcase, nurturing and nourishing the storytelling revival across the United States and around the world.

Since its first days, the Festival has featured a stunning array of world-class talent that share oral traditions from across history and all over the globe. Cultural representation has included performers from the African American, Jewish, Aboriginal, Egyptian, Asian, Celtic, Hispanic, Israeli, Liberian, French, African, Caribbean, Native American, and the deaf communities, among others.

New 3D-Printed Active Fabric for Healthcare and Soft-Robotics

Scientists and engineers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University has developed an innovative wearable fabric that is flexible but can stiffen on demand through a combination of geometric design, 3D printing, and robotic control, the new technology, RoboFabric, can be adapted for applications such as medical devices, soft robotics, drone limbs, or control surfaces of advanced design craft for water and air.

Fireside Chat with Makers of Makerspaces

Join Dale Dougherty and a panel of makerspace leaders for a conversation about the challenges of running a community-based makerspace. Some makerspaces closed during Covid, while others survived and some even prospered. We learn more about how these makerspaces are doing, whether their membership has changed and what are some of the priorities and plans for the future. We want to promote the sharing of ideas and lessons learned among the people who lead and operate makerspaces.

Would you be OK with a Semi Solid State? • Just Have a Think

The big dogs of the battery industry are now telling us they’ve come up with a neat solution to get these things onto the market and into our electric vehicles. That solution is ‘Semi-Solid-State’ chemistry. So, what’s the difference, and when will we get them?

Five Alternatives to Finally Replace Plastic

Plastic is firmly established in our daily lives, but we all know plastic recycling doesn’t really happen. So what can we do? We can convert starches, fungi, seaweed, even shrimp tails into plastic alternatives and bioplastic.

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