Chennai Storytelling Festival 2019

 

4 Storytelling Programs --

on Sat 2nd,

Thurs 7th,

Fri 8th, and

Sat 9th Feb 2019

 

 

Seats (Rs 150 per person, per program) could be purchased

 

1) at

https://www.eventjini.com/CSF2019--4-Performances

 

or

 

2) by making a deposit into an account at Punjab National Bank (for details, please contact 98403 94282, info@storytellinginstitute.org ).

 

or

 

3) with cash on-the-spot -- if seats might be available.

 

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The following 4 Storytelling Programs would occur at LS Hall, Loyola College.  4:30pm onward.

 

Sat 2nd Feb --

1) Stories about Stories and Storytelling" (45 minutes), by Ruth Stotter (of California, USA).

2) Chinese-Canadian Monkey Queen meets Indian Monkey King" (60 minutes), by Diana Tso and Rubena Sinha, who often perform together.

 

Thurs 7th Feb 2019, at Loyola College (LS Hall) --

1) SW Alvin.

2) Geetha Kailasam.

3) Samatha Sharma.

4) Sandhya Ruban.

5) K Shanmugasundaram (Shan).                       

6) Sudha Krishnan.  

7) Vasugi Ram Manohar.

 

Fri 8th Feb 2019, at Loyola College (LS Hall) --

1) Debarati Banerjee (Hyderabad).                      

2) Debjani Bhaduri.                                      

3) Indu Divya. 

4) Meera Venkatesan (Bangalore).

5) Priyanka Chatterjee (Kolkata)    .          

6) Shreya Biswas (Bangalore).     

7) Shylaja Sampath (Bangalore).

 

Sat 9th Feb 2019, at Loyola College (LS Hall) --

1) Anusha Ramasamy.

2) H Banumathy.       

3) Pretigaya Haran.                                      

4) Priti Sudarsan.

5) Rohini Vij (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh).      

6) Seema Mukherjee (New Delhi).                       

7) Sudha Umashanker.

 

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There are numerous other Performance Programs, as well as Workshops and other events, in CSF 2019.

 

The full schedule of the Festival's 22 events is at

http://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2019.html

 

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Regarding the programs on 7th, 8th, and 9th Feb:

 

Topic and type of story --

 

"Folktales (Grandmother stories) about strong, kind, and clever girls and women (or boys and men)".

 

Personal-experience stories, or any other type of story, would also be fine.

 

Stories could also relate to the value and benefits of diversity, on any level.

 

Story ideas are here. 

 

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Stylised speech (including characters singing) and stylised movement are encouraged.

 

For audio-video examples of "Rhythm, Melody, and Rhyme in Storytelling Speech",  please click here.

 

The oral verbal-art techniques demonstrated there include:

1) Elongation of vowel sounds. 

2) Pauses.

3) Rhythm and melody in speech.

4) Repetition with variation (including making lists).

 

 

 

 

 

To CSF 2019 Schedule