Welcome to the Monday 1st November 2021

webpage of the

 

 

"Storytelling by and for Adults"

                    Series

            (occurring via Zoom)

 

                    Presented by

          World Storytelling Institute

          info@storytellinginstitute.org

              Chennai, 98403 94282

 

This is a series of Open-mic

Storytelling sessions.

 

This series and the Chennai

Storytelling Festival are both

presented by the World

Storytelling Institute.

 

Sessions in this series usually occur

on the first Monday of each month

beginning at 6pm India time.

(If you are not in India, you could

determine the starting time in your

time zone at

www.thetimezoneconverter.com .)

  

For seven years (starting in 2013),

this series occurred in a Cafe Coffee 

Day in Chennai.  Now it is occurring 

via Zoom videoconference.

 

Participating Storytellers are

requested to

1) tell stories that are especiallly

meant for adult listeners,

and

2) consider telling in the

"Candid" Storytelling Style

during at least parts of their

performances.

 

Admission is free.

 

If you have not yet attended a session

in this series -- to register to attend the

the sessions, please send an email to

info@storytellinginstitute.org .

(No need to re-register each month.)

 

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Recordings 

 

1) 6th July 2020 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

2) 3rd August 2020 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

3) 7th Sept 2020 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

4) 5th Oct 2020 session -- 

Links to recordings are here.

 

5) 2nd Nov 2020  session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

6) 7th Dec 2020 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

7) 4th Jan 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

In Feb 2021, we took

a break, so we could focus on

Chennai Storytelling Festival 2021 ,

the Festival's 9th annual edition,

and the first to occur primarily via Zoom.

 

8) 8th March 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

9) 5th April 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

10) 3rd May 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

11) 7th June 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

11) 5th July 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

12) 2nd August 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

13) 6th Sept 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

14) 4th Oct 2021 session --

Links to recordings are here.

 

15) 4th Nov 2021 session --

Links to recordings are below.

 

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     "Storytelling by and for Adults"

 

      Recordings of Storytellings on

         Monday 1st November 2021

          

1)  Kajal Goswami (in Hyderabad) told  

            "The Shipwrecked Sailor" (a folktale).

The recording is here.

 

2) David O'Shea (in Nicosia, Cyprus) told                                 

"New York City 'Taxi Stories' from the 1970s  

and 1980s" (personal-experience stories).

The recording is here.

 

3) Geethanjali Javed (in Chennai) told  

"The Story of a Farmer" (a folktale).

The recording is here.

 

4) Simran Nagwani (in Mumbai) told     

"Anger is Like a Wind that Blows Away the 

Lamp of the Mind" (an original fictional story).

The recording is here.

 

5) Mary Kuttikadan (in Mumbai) told                 

The Gold and Ivory Tablecloth” (a historical story).

The recording is here.

 

6) Michael Williams (additional info is here)

(in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) told   

"The Blessing" (a folktale).

The recording is here.

 

7) Carol Birch (in Connecticut, USA) told          

"Icarus Revisited" (the storyteller's version of

the myth as inspired by the poet Kate Tempest).

The recording is here.

 

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Some tips and suggestions regarding

"Storytelling via Videoconference (and In-person)"

are here.

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