Concept Note Story Telling SEAQIL

BUILDING ASEAN COMMUNITY THROUGH
STORY TELLING COMPETITION:
LISTENING TO ASIA

Call for Submissions

1. BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE

Culture is made up of all ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge, language and way of life a group
of people shares. Culture is expressed through such things as foods, celebrations, music, art,
laws, customs, rituals, and language. Culture is not taught, but people learn the culture by
living it. People decide what is right or wrong and respectful or disrespectful based on beliefs
or values in their culture.

Southeast Asia is a region which is very rich of cultures. Every country in this region has their
own unique cultures. Though geographically lies in the same region, cultures across Southeast
Asia may or may not share the same ideas, beliefs, values, or knowledge. Thus,
misunderstanding may take place when people across Southeast Asia interact one another. One
respectful way to better understand valuable wisdom, beliefs, or knowledge of people in the
region is by listening to their moral stories, such as folk stories, legends, fables, heroic stories
beyond great heroes or leaders and the like. By listening and comprehending the hidden values
beyond those great stories across Southeast Asia, it is expected that cultural barriers may break
down and hence ASEAN community becomes stronger.

In this regard, as a Centre focuses on language education, SEAMEO QITEP in Language initiates
a program to build a better cultural understanding across the region through language by
conducting a story telling competition called “LISTENING TO ASIA”.

2. PURPOSE

This storytelling competition aims to enable students to improve competencies required to
adapt the 21st century. It will enrich knowledge and to better understand Southeast Asia
culture among Southeast Asia students since this program will enable students to increase
their critical thinking as they have to select high value stories representing their own culture;
to enhance their creativity and their communicative competence as they have to tell the
selected story fluently and artfully; to improve their ability to collaborate as they have to
work in group (with another student) to plan their performance while telling the story. In

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addition, this competition challenges teachers to supervise their students to conduct the
whole process of the competition. Teachers have to make sure that the stories are selected
by the students critically; the storytelling performance initiates creativity; and the group of
students collaborate well and communicatively during the whole process.

3. THEME

The themes of stories may emerge local wisdom related to environment, humanity, religion,
education, traditional culture, way of life, etc.

4. TARGETS

This program will target foreign language teachers and students at secondary level in
Southeast Asian region. The teacher will guide and facilitate a pair of students to tell stories
in 6 strategic languages, i.e., Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, German, English, and France, in
form of a video presentation.

5. GUIDELINES

A. Storytelling Guidelines

1) The content of story should explore those local wisdoms relevant to cultural
understanding in which the wisdom may be generated from religious and cultural
values, and traditions of an ethnic group. The content must not offend the issues of
ethnicity, religion, and race.

2) The video contains prolog from the supervisor (teacher) telling the main idea and/or
the moral values of the story.

3) The characters of the story could be acted out by the students performing the
video or the dialogue could be told in form of narrative stories.

4) The stories may be taken from already existing stories (accompanied by reference)
or created originally by the students or teachers (accompanied by a written
statement from the original author).

5) The storytelling performance could be recorded using various media, for example
smartphone, portable camera, etc.

6) The storytelling performance could be conducted using instruments, visual aids,
or others and it may be accompanied with back sound free of copyrights.

7) The maximum duration per video is 7 minutes.

B. Submission Guidelines

1) Register your team by clicking the link: s.id/ListeningToAsia
2) Fill in the application form completely
3) Attach the video directly on your registration form if it is in form of mp4 with

maximum size 10 MB or copy paste the url of GDrive link to the column provided on
the form.
4) Each school may send up to 2 applications (videos) for every foreign language.

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6. AWARDS & BENEFITS

A. Prize Money for the 3 Best Winners
1) 3 million IDR /video for 1st winner (@foreign language)
2) 2.5 million IDR/video for 2nd winner (@foreign language)
3) 2 million IDR/video for 3rd winner (@foreign language)

B. All winners will receive certificates from SEAMEO QITEP in Language

C. Publication Opportunities

The selected videos will be:
1) Uploaded on the websites of SEAMEO QITEP in Language
2) Disseminated by SEAMEO QITEP in Language to public and various institutions
3) Used in various publications and workshops (as reference materials) of SEAMEO

QITEP in Language

7. PROCEDURES AND SCHEDULE

A. Submission of Videos

Videos should be submitted as an attachment in the Google form by 22 November 2020
(Jakarta time). (Please refer to 5-B. Submission Guidelines.)

B. Screening and Selection

1) A total of eighteen best videos for six languages will be selected. An international
screening committee, composed of experts of related areas (foreign language
education, culture, etc.) as well as the representatives of SEAMEO QITEP in Language
and foreign language institutions (Japan Foundation, Confucius Institut, Institut
Francais d’Indonesie, and Goethe Institute) will review the submitted applications
and select three best videos for each language.

2) The criteria of selection are as follows:

 Relevance to cultural diversity
 Language fluency
 Originality of the story
 Creativity of the performance
 Quality of the video

C. Important Dates : Period for competition registration (incl. video submission)

2—22 Nov : First stage selection
23—25 Nov : Second stage selection
26 Nov—1 Dec : Announcement of 3 best selected videos per language
4 Dec
10-11 December : Online competition (3 best videos per language)
Awards Ceremony

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8. REFERENCES

A. Key References on Cultural Diversity (among many)

 Contemporary books on influential figures
 http://asianfolktales.unescoapceiu.org/sub2.htm

B. Related Themes (Examples ONLY)

Cultural diversity can be approached through specific thematic areas. Your videos may
include the following themes:

 Cross cultural understanding
 Family values
 Human rights
 Other related topics/cross –topic

9. CONTACT INFORMATION

SEAMEO QITEP in Language

Committee : Gibran Ramadhani

WhatsApp Number : +62 822-8763-6921

Tel : +62 (021) 7888 4106

Email : [email protected]

Website : qiteplanguage.org

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