STORIES BY MOONLIGHT GUEST: BENITA PRIETO

Curator, consultant, producer and facilitator of reading projects. Actress, writer and storyteller. She founded the Rio de Janeiro International Storytellers’ Symposium. She produced the documentary ‘Histórias’ about urban oral storytellers and edited the book ‘Storytellers: an exercise for many voices’. Since 2012, she has been conducting research and delivering courses on the promotion of reading and digital literature.
Co-ordinator of the International Storytellers’ Network; Technical Co-ordinator of the Caminhos de Leitura Publishing Imprint; President of Ações & Conexões – Cultural Association of Portugal. She was a member of the Study Group on Children’s and Young Adult Literature (GELIJ/CNPq) at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Reading at PUC-Rio de Janeiro, which selects books for the “Cátedra 10” Seal. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she currently lives in Alhandra, Portugal, where she has been involved in initiatives to promote reading and storytelling at Caminhos de Leitura, the Sertã Reading Marathon, Palavras Andarilhas, Folio, Rio de Contos, Festa dos Contos, the School Libraries Network and various other cultural events and venues.
‘Contos ao Luar’ celebrates the pleasure of listening to, imagining and sharing stories; it provides a stage for adventures, memories and enchanted worlds told by starlight.