Haida woman helps break world storytelling record [Video]

A storyteller from Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off B.C.’s north coast, has helped set a new world record in storytelling.

Kung Jadee was part of the event at the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival in Morocco, which took place from Jan. 19 to 26. 

Over the course of 80 hours, 32 minutes and 58 seconds, more than 100 invited guests took part in the continuous storytelling event in Jemaa el-Fnaa Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, handing off from person to person.

“Everyone was, ‘Are we going to do it? We’re going to do it. We’re going to do it,'” Jadee said. “I was really worried that I was going to mess up somehow…. It seems like such high stakes to mess up a world record.”

WATCH | The moment the storytelling record was broken: Indigenous storyteller Kung Jaadee recounts the moment she helped set a record for longest storytelling session at the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival in Morocco.

She did not, and the record was certified by Guiness World Recordsas …