Exciting narratives by Verónica Pensosi
THE EMOTION OF ORAL STORYTELLING THAT TRANSFORMS LIVES
Te Cuento una Vida is an artistic pause in our troubled world. This project offers oral storytelling shows, storytellling and cultural routes on biographies that illuminate to recover the magic of the stories shared by the fire, where young people and adults gathered to listen, be moved and reflect.
It is a unique storytelling experience that combines art, culture, cultural dissemination and education in values. The narrations are composed and interpreted by the Italian-Spanish storyteller Veronica Pensosi with the aim of telling the lives of great figures of the past in different languages to enjoy learning.
It offers face-to-face and online events, as well as cultural routes. Te Cuento una vida was born in 2018 and has been successfully presented in cultural institutions, libraries, theaters, high schools and universities throughout Spain, with excellent reviews for the originality of the narrative.
What do we do?
Narrated routes
Itinerant narrations are offered about famous people who lived in Madrid.
These are not tourist visits, but narrative experiences that connect the city with its living memory.
Education in values in different languages
The narrator can interpret her stories in Italian, French and Spanish. She collaborates regularly with the Official Schools of Languages and with different universities of Language and Philology.
Stories to enjoy learning
The project offers storytelling shows and workshops on storytelling and famous biographies that can be performed in one-time events or workshops to spread culture in an original way. In addition, the workshops improve communication skills for public speaking.
Training
Veronica Pensosi, Spanish-Italian storyteller and creator of Te Cuento una Vida, studied at the Lycée Français in Rome. She holds a degree in Humanities from La Sapienza in Rome, with a specialization in Film History, and a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid.
She complemented her training with a Master’s Degree in Cultural Management and at the Storytelling School in Madrid. She narrates in Spanish, Italian and French.
Trajectory
Since 2018 she leads the project Te Cuento una Vida and is an associate professor at the University of Nebrija and UAM. Previously, she was project manager at the Orange Foundation in Madrid, focused on supporting people with autism, and international speaker at various conferences.
Between 2000 and 2007 she worked for FAO of the United Nations as a communications development worker, with two years of field experience in Kenya and Senegal.
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Stories to enjoy learning
The project offers storytelling shows and workshops on storytelling and celebrity biographies that can be performed in one-time events or workshops to spread culture in an original way.
In addition, the workshops improve communication skills for public speaking.
Narrated routes through Madrid
Itinerant narrations are offered about famous people who lived in Madrid.
These are not tourist visits, but narrative experiences that connect the city with its living memory.
Education in values in different languages
The narrator can interpret her stories in Italian, French and Spanish. She collaborates regularly with the Official Schools of Languages and with different universities in Language and Literature.
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The narrator behind the story: Verónica Pensosi
Veronica Pensosi, Spanish-Italian, is the driving force behind the project. Graduated cum laude in Literature from La Sapienza University of Rome -with a specialization in Film History- and in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, she combines a solid academic background with an exceptional narrative sensibility.
She has also completed a Master’s Degree in Cultural Management and has been selected in the Factoría Cultural Innovation Plan for creative projects. She trained as a storyteller at the Escuela de Cuentacuentos de Madrid and is fluent in four languages: Spanish, Italian, French and English.
His career includes field work at the United Nations FAO in Nairobi and Dakar, and later, as project manager at the Orange Foundation, in favor of functional diversity. She has been an international speaker at conferences in Europe and Latin America, giving presentations in different languages.
In addition, he has lectured on film and literature at the Complutense University, the University of Alcalá, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Seville and the French Institute, among others. Currently, he teaches storytelling techniques at several universities for educational innovation.
Since 2018, he has been touring Spain with Te Cuento una Vida, bringing to the stage stories halfway between lecture and story, supported by graphic material, with a staging where each story comes to life.
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