World Kamishibai Forum wins the Blue Dolphin Award!
In August, 2025, Tara McGowan was invited to Piran to receive the Blue Dolphin Award on behalf of the World Kamishibai Forum. For in-depth information on the Festival and the awards, click on the link. More information
World Kamishibai Forum LIVE in 2025 in San Diego
(CA) and San Marcos (TX)
Breakdown of the first ever Live Forum held in February 2025 . More information
Events
List of upcoming events for the FREE Series of Zoom meetings. New series posting soon.
Registration
Form to complete to receive an invitation to each Zoom
Resources
Kamishibai Stories, Equipment, Services, and Advice.
Archive
All videos and recordings of past Zoom workshops. Available since 2020.
How can you help?
Get Involved
If you would like to be a featured kamishibai artist (writer, illustrator, performer), please let us know by sending a short video of yourself at work with kamishibai.
Please spread the word to other people about this Forum. Post your participation on social media like Facebook, Pinterest. X, etc. Tell teachers, storytellers, librarians, graphic artists, reading group leaders, actors, literacy teachers, tutors, and anyone else who might be interested.
Send by email to ritter.wkf@gmail.com.
Curators
Founders of the World Kamishibai Forum
Tara McGowan
Tara McGowan is an artist, kamishibai storyteller, and author of The Kamishibai Classroom and Performing Kamishibai: An Emerging New Literacy for a Global Audience . She has been active in literacy work and kamishibai for more than 20 years.
Donna Tamaki
Donna Tamaki is a co-founder of Kamishibai for Kids and a translator of numerous Kamishibai stories from Japanese into English. She has been active with kamishibai for more than 30 years.
Walter Ritter
Walter Ritter is an actor, singer, narrator and, for the past 10 years, a very busy kamishibai storyteller. He is the Executive Director and co-founder of Write Out Loud.
Latest news from our blog
We’ve been working on a new website to connect all of us together. It is our hope that this effort will generate new resources, events, and links that can be utilized by everyone interested in Kamishibai.
