https://asia.si.edu/ The Freer and Sackler Galleries’ Silk Road Storytelling group is made up of volunteers from the Washington DC community who have cultural ties to various sites along the ancient Silk Road. They trained with professional storyteller Louise Omoto Kessel to learn to tell stories from their homelands including Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan. Here is a sample of their stories. We trust that listeners will experience the many ways that appreciation for family, meaningful work, truth, beauty, and mystery are expressed through these unique voices from along the ancient trading route. Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:30:13 +0000 en-US © 2018 Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Unique voices from along the ancient trading route Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery episodic Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery fsweb@si.edu clean https://asia.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/slik-road-stories.jpg https://asia.si.edu/ fsweb@si.edu No yes 5a2185db-7d25-5252-8c7a-6deaff9bb228 166720228 https://asia.si.edu/podcast/dilber-the-beautiful-girl-whose-wish-was-not-fulfilled/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://asia.si.edu/podcast/dilber-the-beautiful-girl-whose-wish-was-not-fulfilled/ folk tales,folklore,storytelling,Turkey clean no 11:16 No no https://asia.si.edu/podcast/the-ruti-eaters/ https://asia.si.edu/podcast/the-ruti-eaters/ Bangladesh,Bengal,folk tales,folklore,India,storytelling clean no 0:00 No no https://asia.si.edu/podcast/malik-and-the-king/ https://asia.si.edu/podcast/malik-and-the-king/ Bangladesh,Bengal,folk tales,folklore,storytelling clean no 0:00 No no https://asia.si.edu/podcast/how-asanga-came-to-see-the-future-buddha/ https://asia.si.edu/podcast/how-asanga-came-to-see-the-future-buddha/ bodhisattva,Buddhism,folk tales,folklore,Maitreya Buddha,storytelling,Tibet clean no 0:00 No no https://asia.si.edu/podcast/jade/ https://asia.si.edu/podcast/jade/ folk tales,folklore,jade,storytelling,Taiwan clean no 0:00 No no https://asia.si.edu/podcast/the-cow-boy-and-the-weaving-lady/ https://asia.si.edu/podcast/the-cow-boy-and-the-weaving-lady/ astronomy,China,folk tales,folklore,storytelling clean no 0:00 No no https://asia.si.edu/podcast/peach-boy/ https://asia.si.edu/podcast/peach-boy/ folk tales,folklore,Japan,Momotaro,storytelling clean no 0:00 No no https://asia.si.edu/podcast/the-discovery-of-silk/ https://asia.si.edu/podcast/the-discovery-of-silk/ China,folk tales,folklore,silk,storytelling clean no 0:00 No no