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presents Chennai
Storytelling Festival Online
Video Library The annual Chennai Storytelling
Festival began in 2013. In addition to the video links below, some documentation of the CSF is here. The theme of the CSF is "Ways Storytelling of Various Cultures, Religions,
World-views, and Practices can Facilitate Growing, Maturing, Freedom from Oppression, Teaching and
Learning, Playing, Creating, Transforming, and/or Healing in Individuals and
Groups -- and the Healing of
the Environment." ____________________________________ CSF 2024 (12th edition), Feb 2024 (via Zoom). CSF 2023 (11th edition), Feb 2023 (via Zoom). CSF 2022 (10th edition), Feb 2022 (via Zoom). CSF 2021 (9th edition), Feb 2021
(via Zoom). CSF 2020 (8th edition), Feb 2020. CSF 2019 (7th edition), Feb 2019. CSF 2018 (6th edition), Feb 2018. CSF 2017 (5th edition), Feb 2017. CSF 2016 (4th edition), Feb 2016. CSF 2015 (3rd edition), Feb 2015. CSF 2014 (2nd edition), Feb 2014. ____________________________________ CSF 2024 (2-4th, 9th-11th, 16th-18th, 23rd-25th Feb 2023). 1) Storytellings
in CSF 2024's 12 two-hour Storytelling Sessions (60). 2) Workshops
(24). 3) Storytelling
Programs (4). 4) Talks
and Discussions (4). 5) Sessions
for/by/with Children (8). 6) Storytelling
in Various Languages (4). 7) Storytelling
Recordings Submitted (5). *** 1) Storytellings in CSF 2024's 12 two-hour Storytelling Sessions (60). Alistair
Martin (near Toronto), Alla
Lebedeva (Moscow), Alvin S.W.
(Chennai), Ambujavalli N.
(Chennai), Angela
Halvorsen Bogo (Norway), Britta Wilmsmeier
(Germany), Bruce
Kirchoff (North Carolina), Bruce
Marcus (Massachusetts), Dada
Maheshvarananda (North Carolina). David
Heathfield (UK). Denise
McCormack (New Jersey). Divya Anand
(Chennai). Ed Lewis
(California). Elisa
Pearmain (Massachusetts). Heather
Forest (New York). Helmut Wittmann
(Austria). Howard
Lieberman (Minnesota). Jaishree
Sethi (New Delhi). Jayanthi
B. (Chennai). Jenis
Lunkad (Raipur). Jennifer
Munro (Connecticut). Jon
Sundell (North Carolina). June Brown
(Toronto). Kavita
Shah (Ahmedabad). Lalitha
Thilak (Chennai). Lavanya
Prasad (Bengaluru). Laxmi
Balaji (Toronto). Les
Schaffer (Virginia). Lipika
Mohanty (Bhubaneshwar). Maja
Bumberák (Hungary). Manisha
Bhise (Mumbai). Maricris
Basto (Philippines). Marijana
Mrvos (Croatia). Marina Maria
Granlund (Sweden). Mary
Louise Chown (Manitoba). Meera
Venkateshan and Anagha Prasad (both in
Bangalore). Mihaela
Rau (Romania). Milly
Jackdaw (West Wales). Neena Girish
(Thiruvananthapuram), Nidhi
Sehgail (Faridabad). Nilguen
Yalay (New Zealand). Norah Dooley
(Massachusetts). Parvathy Eswaran
(Coimbatore). Pooja Giri
(Chennai). Pretigaya
Haran (Chennai). Priyanka
Sagar Maheshwari (Noida). Regina
Ress (New Mexico). Shaheen
Maniar (Pune). Shilpa
Mehta (Jaipur). Shital
Rayathatha (Chennai). Shreya
Biswas (Kolkatta). Shraddha
Nigavekar (Pune). Sowmya
Srinivasan (Coimbatore). Sridevi
Srivinasan (Chennai). Stefania
Ganzini (Italy). Sudha
Umashanker (Chennai). Tim
Sheppard (England). Vandana
Rao (Visakhapatnam). Vicky Ness
(California). Wangari
Grace (Kenya). 2)
Workshops (24). Anuradha Rohra (Mumbai) led a Workshop on "Using Drama to
Build Community" in CSF 2024, on 11 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Audra
Sisak (in Seattle) led a Workshop on "Storytelling and Autism: Focus on
Practical Issues of Telling and Listening" in CSF 2024, on 18 Feb 2024. The recording is here.
Barry Stewart Mann (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
led a Workshop on "STEM Teaching with Storytelling (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math)" in CSF 2024, on 10 Feb 2024. The recording is here. David Heathfield (England) led a Workshop on
"Mixed Language Storytelling" in CSF 2024, on 9 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Debjani Bhaduri (Chennai) led a Workshop on
"Antagonists in Stories" in CSF 2024, on 11 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Denise McCormack (New Jersey) led a Workshop on
"Exploring Stories Through Critical Lenses" in CSF 2024, on 10 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Eric Miller (Chennai) led
an 8-session Workshop on "Story Composition (Making-up Stories):
Dramatic Structure and Character Development" in CSF 2024. On this webpage there
are links to 1) Recordings of all 8 sessions. 2) Typed notes about "Dramatic Structure and Character
Development". 3) Summaries of the three stories the Workshop's principles were
applied to: A) "The Tempest" (by William Shakespeare), B) Tamil Nadu's "Epic of the Anklet", and C) "Words from the Forest" (by Eric Miller). Geethanjali Javed (Chennai) led a Workshop on "Persuasive
Presentations through Storytelling" in CSF 2024, on 2 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Haritha
Kannan (Chennai) led a Workshop titled " 'Pop the Anger Bubble': Anger
Management Techniques and Coping Skills, Using Stories" in CSF 2024, on
24 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. Kanagadurga Ramesh (Chennai) led a Workshop
on "Building Your Story Bank" in CSF 2024, on 10 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Laxmi Balaji
(Toronto) led a Workshop on "Panchatantra Stories" in CSF 2024, on
25 Feb 2024, The
recording is here. Maricris Basto (the Philippines) led a Workshop on
"Bringing Stories of the World to Local Readers and Listeners" in
CSF 2024, on 4 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. Dr Mary Kuttikadan
(Mumbai) led a Workshop on "Storytelling for and by People Who Have Attention
Issues" in CSF 2024, on 23 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. Members of
MAST (Madras Storytellers) led a Workshop on "Creating Songs that Tell
Stories" in CSF 2024, on 23 Feb 2024.
The recording is here. Mohan
Krishnan (Chennai) led a
Workshop on "Impactful Body Language and Vocal Techniques for Effective
Storytelling" in CSF 2024, on 17 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. Nandini
Murali (Chennai) led a Poetry and Story Workshop on "Developing Elements
of Nature as Metaphors for Renewal and Transformation" in CSF 2024, on
24 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Parker Genné (Minnesota) , and Cris Anderson (Minnesota)
and other members of the Minnesota Folktale Gardening Club, led a Workshop on
"Intergenerational Healing through Folktale Engagement" in CSF
2024, on 18 Feb 2024. "The
Handless Maiden", a fairytale collected by the Grimm brothers in Germany
in the early 1800s, was worked with. The recording is here. Priyanka
Sagar Maheshwari (Noida) led a Workshop on "The Play of Senses in
Storytelling" in CSF 2024, on 3 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Regina
Ress (New Mexico) led a Workshop titled "Storytelling On the Moment:
When 'Why We Tell a Story' Becomes Critical" in CSF 2024, on 25 Feb
2024. The
recording is here. Shital Rayathatha (Chennai) led a Workshop on "Planning
One's Future: Utilising Strategic Storytelling for Building Communication
Skills, Overcoming Procrastination, and Goal Setting" in CSF 2024, on 9
Feb 2024. The recording is here. Sonia Bareja
(Portugal) led a Workshop titled "Reclaim Yourself – or, from Chaos to
Clarity" in CSF 2024, on 18 Feb 2024.
The recording is here. Sowmya Srinivasan (Coimbatore) led a Workshop on "From
'I am Not Enough', to 'I am Enough': Externalising Internal Narratives
Through Stories and Metaphor" in CSF 2024, on 3 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Sree Karuna
(Vishakapatnam) led a Workshop on "Environmental Storytelling for Children"
in CSF 2024, on 16 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Sudha
Umashanker (Chennai) led a Workshop on "Ways to Use Story and
Storytelling to Heal after the Loss of a Loved One" in CSF 2024, on 18
Feb 2024. The recording is here. 3)
Storytelling Programs (4). Debjani Bhaduri (Chennai) hosted a session of "Storytelling
about Women" in CSF 2024, on 24 Feb 2024. The recording is here. The Katha Krafters (Bangalore and beyond) told stories
about "Facing Challenges" in CSF 2024, on 3 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Ramendra Kumar (Bangalore) told "Battling Every Tumour
With Humour" (a personal-experience story) in CSF 2024,
on 3 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. Rohini Jayanti (Hyderabad) hosted a session of
Storytelling: "Stories from Indian Mythology Using Art Forms such as
Music, Painting, Kamishibai, Storyboard, Dance, and Puppets)" in CSF
2024, on 11 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. 4) Talks and Discussions (4). Opening Session of CSF 2024, on 2 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. Kalyan
Babu (Chennai) hosted a Storytelling Session and Discussion about "Moon
Symbolism and Significance in Folklore and Mythology" in CSF 2024, on 24
Feb 2024. The recording is here. "Ways the Dravidian Movement has Used Stories to
Communicate Its Messages" was discussed in a CSF 2024 session on 25 Feb
2024. The recording is here. Closing
Session of CSF 2024, on 25 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. 5) Sessions for/by/with Children (8). Divya Vijayakumar (Chennai) hosted a session of
"Storytelling for Childen" in CSF
2024, on 3 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Divya
Vijayakumar (Chennai) hosted a session of "Storytelling by
Children" in CSF 2024, on 4 Feb 2024.
The
recording is here. Kalyan Babu (Chennai) hosted a session of "Storytelling
for and by Children" in CSF 2024, on 10 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Kalyan Babu (Chennai) hosted a session of
"Storytelling by Children" in CSF 2024, on 11 Feb 2024. The recording is here. Nicholas Pawlowski (Minnesota),
Founder-Director of the Story Table Foundation, led a Workshop for adults on
"Storytelling for Children, with Activities" in CSF 2024, on 17 Feb
2024. The recording is here. Renu Narayan, Renuga Bharath, Shyama Sridharan, and Vidya Dhanaraj
(all in Chennai) Told Stories to Children (with Activities) in CSF 2024, on
18 Feb 2024. The
recording is here. Aarti
Ashwin Kute (Mumbai) told Science-related Stories to Children (with
Activities) in CSF 2024, on 24 Feb 2024.
The recording is here. Deepti Suresh (Bangalore) Told Stories to Children (with
Activities) in CSF 2024, on 24 Feb 2024.
The
recording is here. 6) Storytelling in Various Languages
(3). Hindi. The recording
is here. Kannada. The recording
is here. Malayalam. The
recordings are here,
here, here, here, and here. Telugu. The
recording is here. Recordings of
storytelling sessions in other languages are coming soon. 7) Storytelling Recordings
Submitted (5). Telugu. Madhu
Priya Kanugovi (Hyderabad) told "Storms of Life". The recording is here. Odia: Lipika
Mohanty (Bhubaneswar) told "Drink Water, Wooden Horses, Drink !" The recording is here. English: Sreeja
Mohandas (Bangalore) told "The Rendezvous" (an orginal fictional
story). The recording is here. Deepthi Suresh (Bangalore) told
"The Story of Valmiki" (a traditional story). The recording is here. Vijaylakshmi
Nagaraj (Bangalore)
told "Innocence" (an original fictional
story). The recording is here. ____________________________________ (3-5th, 10th-12th,
17th-19th, 24th-26th Feb 2023). A) Workshops. B) Storytellings. C) Submitted
to CSF 2023 for its "Recordings
of Storytellings" Contest. ************************** A) 38 Workshops (and the Closing
Session). (Excerpts.) 1 Aaron Conklin
(Missouri) "Storytelling as
a Conduit for Growing through
Grief". Info is here. The recording is here (61 min). 2 Amrita Chauhan
(Jaipur). "Creative Ways to Build Stories". Info is here. The recording is here (63 min). 3 Annapoorani Barani
(Chennai). "Maximising One's Storytelling Space: Ways to Make Best Use of One's Offline or Online Space to Deliver a Good Performance". Info is here. The recording is here (68 min). 4 Anuradha Rohra (Mumbai). "Exploring
Stories through Dramatic Activities". Info is here. The recording is here (68 min). 5 Audra
Sisak (Seattle). "Storytelling and Autism". Info is here. The recording is here (83 min). 6 Barry Stewart Mann
(Atlanta, Georgia). "Decisions! Decisions! Using Role-playing to Explore
Decision-making in Folktales". Info is here. The recording is here (107 min). 7 Bruce Kirchoff (North Carolina). "Improvised
Group-storytelling". Info is here. The recording is here (12 min). 8 David Heathfield (England) and Amna Burki (Canada). "Storytelling for Celebrating Cultural
Diversity". Info is here. The recording is here (69 min). 9 Debjani Bhaduri (Chennai). "The Forest as a Metaphor in Traditional Stories, Especially in Indian Mythology". Info is here. The recording is here (81 min). 10 Elisa
Pearmain (Massachusetts). "Applying an Updated Version of the Hero/Heroine Journey Model to the Healing Process and One's Life". Info is here. The recording is here (69 min). 11 Gail
Herman (Massachusetts). "Organic Storytelling". Info is here. The recording is here (68 min). 12 Gayatri
Kashyap (Chennai) and Rachna
Chowla (Mumbai), "Discovering One's Spirit Animal in Indian Folklore and Sacred Literature". Info is here. The recording is here (68 min). 13 Heather Forest (New
York). "Music in
Storytelling". Info is here. The recording is here (78 min). 14 Howard
Lieberman (Minnesota). "Letting
the Audience In: Sharing Difficult Personal
Narrative Stories that Combine Pathos
and Entertainment". Info is here. The recording is here (86 min). 15 Imran Ali Namazi
(Chennai). "Storytelling and
Imaginative Communities". Info is here. The recording is here (26 min). 16 Jackson Gillman
(Massachusetts) and Galen Brandt (New
Jersey). "Embodying the
Heart of Story and Song: Inside Our
Process". Info is here. The recording is here (89 min). 17 Jay Leeming (New
York). "Storytelling and
Poetry: Rainwater Words and the Thunder of
Myth". Info is here. The recording is here (90 min). 18 Jennifer Ramsay
(Spain). "Story Medicine: Working Creatively with Fairytales and Story Arte". Info is here. The recording is here (90 min). 19 Judy England-McCarthy
(New Jersey) "Freeing Your
Instrument So Your Story Can Soar". Info is here. The recording is here (51 min). 20 Lani Peterson
(Massachusetts). "Re-authoring
Sustaining Stories". Info is here. The recording is here (78 min). 21 Lavanya
Srinivas (Chennai). "Redesign Your Story:
From Page to Performance". Info is here. The recording is here (92 min). 22 Mary
Kuttikadan (Mumbai). "Storytelling and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)". Info is here. The recording is here (60 min). 23 Mary Louise Chown (Manitoba,
Canada). "The Story
Well: Diving Deep for Meaningful Stories". Info is here. The recording is here (34 min). 24 Meera Venkatesan and Parvathy Eswaran (in Bangalore). "Using
Stories for Social-emotional Learning:
Unlocking Social-emotional Learning
with Stories". Info is here. The recording is here (88 min). 25 Minnesota Folktale
Gardening Club. "Healing Temples
of Folktales". Info is here. The recording is here (60 min). 26 Nandini
Murali (Chennai). "Transforming through Trauma: Ways Stories Can Help One to Heal from Trauma and Grief". Info is here. The recording is here (12 min). 27 Radhieka (Chennai) "Storytelling for Healing Hearts". Info is here. The
recording is here (17 min). 28 Ramya Srinidhi (Bangalore). "Kamishibai Storytelling". Info is here. The
recording is here (74 min). 29 Regina Ress (New Mexico). "Bringing the Tales We Carry in Our Memories into the Stories We Tell Today". Info is here. The
recording is here (90 min). 30 Shan K (Chennai). "Business Storytelling". Info is here. The recording is here (84 min). 31 Shyama Sridharan (Chennai). "The Art of
Immersive Storytelling through Mime and
Ventriloquism". Info is here. The recording is here (39 min). 32 Smita
Rajan (mumbai). "The Body as an Aide in Storytelling and Expression" Info is here. The recording is here (63 min). 33 Sonia
Bareja (New Delhi) and Simran
Nagwani (Mumbai). "Are
you Mindful or Mindfull? Let's Decode
the Art of Storytelling, and Mindfulness
(Version 3.0)". Info is here. The recording is here (84 min). 34 Sowmya Srinivasan
(Coimbatore). "Life Story Mandala". Info is here. The recording is here (86 min). 35 Sristi
Sengupta (Kolkata). "Stories
and Self through Tibetan Literature, Especially
Appreciating the Contributions of
Guru Rinpoche". Info is here. The recording is here (94 min). 36 Sudha Umashanker (Chennai). "How to Find Stories in Your Backyard and Prepare Them for Telling". Info is here. The recording is here (81 min). 37 Trish Denton
(Vermont). "Parallel Narratives:
Using Metaphor and Magic to Transform Life Stories". Info is here. The recording is here (32 min). 38 Usha
Venkatraman (Mumbai). "Churning – Within and Around: Working with Stories about Courageous Women Who Challenged Tradition". Info is here. The recording is here (61 min). ___ "Closing Session
of CSF 2023". The past and future of
the Chennai Storytelling Festival
is discussed. The recording is here (37 min). ************************** B) Storytellings. ___ I) Hybrid Session
Session at the Goethe
Institute, Chennai, on 11th Feb 2023 – 1) Pretigaya
Haran (Chennai). The recording is here. 2) Britta
Wilmsmeier (Germany). The recording is here. 3) Annapoorani
Barani (Chennai). The recording is here. 4) Lalitha
Thilak (Chennai). The recording is here. 5) Marina
Granlund (Sweden). The recording is here. 6) Jasmina
A. Žiljak (Croatia). The recording is here. ___ II) Hybrid Session
Session at the Anna
Centenary Library, Chennai, on 19th Feb 2023 – 1) Srividya Veeraraghavan (Chennai), The recording is here. 2) Wangari Grace (Kenya), The recording is here. 3) Thenmozhi S. (Bangalore), The recording is here. 4) Vithya Dhanaraj (Chennai), The recording is here. 5) Renu Narayan (Chennai) The recording is here. 6) Nilguen Yalay (New Zealand), The recording is here. ___ III) Hybrid Storytelling
Session at the British
Council, Chennai, on 25th Feb 2023 – 1) Sally Pomme Clayton (UK), The recording is here. 2) Sudha Umashanker (Chennai). The recording is here. 3) Ambujavalli N. and Debjani Bhaduri (Chennai). The recording is here. 4) Tim Sheppard (UK). The recording is here. 5) Geethanjali Javed (Chennai). The recording is here. 6) Angela Halvorsen Bogo (Norway). The recording is here. *** Katha Krafters (Bangalore). "Interwoven" – Stories about the unique weaves and patterns from the looms of India The recording is here. (92 min) ************************** C) Submitted to CSF 2023 for its "Recordings of Storytellings"
Contest. Info is here. 1) Anagha Prasad (in Bangalore) tells "Breath to
Breath" (a personal-experience story). July
2022. The recording is here. 2) Chitra Chandrashekhar (in Chennai) tells "Ripe
Time" (a conversation between
the Tamil poet Avvaiyyar and Murugan,
disguised as a shepherd boy). July
2022. The recording is here. 3) Divya
Vijayakumar (in Chennai) tells "Wanting a
Tree" (Indian mythology). July
2022. The recording is here. 4) Lipika Mohanty
(in Bhubaneswar) tells "Nabagunjara" (an excerpt from Sarala Mahabharata,
Indian mythology). July
2022. The recording is here. 5) Vicky Ness (in California) tells "Words from the
Castle" (an original creative story in the
style of magical realism). July
2022. The recording is here. 6) Jayanthi B
(in Chennai) tells "Stories of
Krishna" (mythology). July 2022. The recording is here. 7) Bala Ramaswamy (in Chennai) tells "Ekalaiva" (a story from the Mahabharata). August 2022. Relating to CSF topic, Hinduism. The recording is here. 8) Beverly
Schwartz (in New York) tells "Saying
Goodbye" (a personal-experience story). August 2022. The recording is here. 9) Ria Jain (in Noida) tells "The Woodcutter
of Gura" (a folktale from Ethiopia). August 2022. The recording is here. 10) Surekha
Dey
(in Wayanad, Kerala) tells "The Fisherman:
A Story of Passion, Loss, and Hope" (a folktale from Armenia). August 2022. The recording is here. 11) Gustavo
von Bischoffshausen (in Lima, Peru) tells "The Sinking of
the First Village of Caballo Cocha" (a story
composed by Rafo Diaz).August 2022. August 2022. The recording is here. 12) Renu Narayan (in Chennai) tells "Rose
Cottage" (an original creative story). August 2022. The recording is here. 13) Tanuja Majeti
(in Kanha Shanti Vanam, Telangana) tells "What
Did the Thunder Say?" (based on a story in the Upanishads). Sept
2022. The recording is here. 14) Anuradha CR (in Chennai) tells "Who Witnessed the Kurukshetra War?" (a story from the Mahabharata). Sept 2022. The recording is here. 15) Dr Anusuya
Bhattacharyya (in Vellore) tells "The Letter"
(an original creative story). Sept
2022. The recording is here. 16) Kapila Nagpal
(in Bhubaneswar) tells "Thank you, Mr Falker" (based on a short story by
Patricia Polloco). Sept
2022. The recording is here. 17) Srividya V
(in Chennai) tells "The Pencil"
(a personal-experience story). Sept
2022. The recording is here. 18)
Priya Narayan (in Mumbai) tells "The
Open Window" (an original creative story). Oct
2022. The recording is here. 19)
Shan S.
(in Chennai) tells "Look Up and Not Down" (an original creative story). Oct
2022. The recording is here. 20)
Meenakshi Sharma (in Gurgaon) tells "Never
to be Defeated" (about the
Storyteller's Mother-in-law). Oct
2022. The recording is here. 21)
Pretigaya Haran (in Chennai) tells "The
Mountain Where Old People Were Abandoned"
(a Japanese folktale). Oct
2022. The recording is here. 22)
Regina Ress (in New Mexico) tells "Tamlane" (a
story from an old Scotch ballad). Oct
2022. The recording is here. 23)
Judith Heineman (in New York) tells "The
Juniper Tree" (a fairytale
collected by the Grimm brothers). Oct
2022. The recording is here. 24) Kala Sundaram (in Singapore) tells "Kabuliwalah" (based on a short story written in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892). Nov 2022. The recording is here. 25) Marin Magat (in Maine, USA) tells "The Fox and the Rabbit" (a personal-experience story interspersed with an early USA ballad). Nov 2022. The recording is here. 26) June Brown (in Toronto, Canada) tells "The Clay Flute" (a folktale). Nov 2022. The recording is here. 27) Srabanti
Basu (in Kolkata) tells "ChicChic and the Grandpa
Swan" (based
on a fictional story written in Bengali by Nabaneeta
DebSen). Nov 2022. The recording is here. 28) Ramya
Srinidhi (in Bangalore) tells "When It is Your Time..." (a personal-experience story). Nov 2022. The recording is here. 29) Carol
Birch (in Connecticut
, USA) tells "Sitting in Cars with Men" (a personal-experience
story). Nov 2022. The recording is here. 30) Haritha K. (in Chennai) tells "The Coldest
Night of the Year" (by Margaret Davol). Dec 2022. The
recording is here. 31) Rona Barbour (in Scotland) tells "The Perfect
Heart" (Author unknown). Dec 2022. The
recording is here. 32) Geetanjali
Shetty Kaul (in
Mumbai) tells "1947, When
Freedom Was in the Air" (Author unknown). Dec 2022. The
recording is here. 33) Zarin
Maraikayar (in
Chennai) tells "Back to the
Office" (an original creative story). Dec 2022. The
recording is here. 34) Lalitha Sivapurapu (in Hyderabad) tells "Bharat and
Mandavi, Husband and Wife" (a story from the Ramayana). Dec 2022. The
recording is here. 35) Valeria Elliott (in Virginia, USA) tells "Just Say,
'Thank you' " (a personal-experience story). Dec 2022. The
recording is here. 36) Arthi
Mangalam (in Chennai) tells "Heaven on Earth"
(a personal-experience story). Jan 2023. The
recording is here. 37) Shylaja
Sampath (in Bangalore) tells "Reflowering"
(by Sundara
Ramasway). Jan 2023. The
recording is here. 38) Manjiri Gogate (in Mumbai) tells "The House in
Lonavala" (a personal-experience story). Jan 2023. The
recording is here. 39) Parvathy
Eswaran (in
Bangalore) tells "The Cop and the
Anthem" (by O. Henry). Jan 2023. The
recording is here. 40) Jo Radner (in Maine, USA) tells "Wimble Betty"
(a historical story). Jan 2023. The
recording is here. _______ Created especially for CSF 2023 – 41) Shilpa
Mehta (in Jaipur) tells "The Buddha and
a Beggar" (a folktale). July 2022. The recording is here. 42) Kameswari P (in Hyderabad) tells "The Plight of ABC of the
Environment: The Story of an Ant, a Bee, and a
Caterpillar" (an original
creative story). July 2022. The recording
is here. 43) Padma Rangaraj (in Chennai) presents, "Manimegalai Tells the Story of
Her Life" (a Tamil
epic). August 2022. The recording is here. 44) Padma R. (in Chennai) tells "Button, Button" (by Richard
Matheson). Jan 2023. The recording is here. 45) Neha Khaitan
(in Hyderabad) tells "Anekdotes: City of Nizams", Stories of the history of Hyderabad. Jan 2023. The recording is here. 46)
Faye Mogensen (in British
Columbia, Canada) tells "Orca Dreams" (a
personal-experience story). Jan 2023. The recording is here. 47) Grainne Delaney tells "The Wild Witches" (written by Ruth M. Andrews). Jan 2023. The recording is here. 48) Shukrita
Sankaran (in Mumbai) tells "The Shadow Elephant" (by Nadine
Robert). Jan 2023. The recording is here. 49) Abhilash (in Chennai) tells
"The Invention" (a story from
"What Can I Give?", Srijan Pal Singh's book about
Abdul Kalam). Jan 2023. The recording is here. _________________________________________ (4-6th, 11th-13th,
18th-20th, 25th-27th Feb 2022). A) Workshops
(excerpts). (16) B) Storytellings.
(65) C) Storytellings
-- long-form, and by groups. (6) D) Other
Sessions (in English). (2) E) Storytelling
in numerous Indian Languages. (3) *** A) CSF 2022, Workshops (excerpts). (16) 1) Eric
Miller Workshop, "Working
with 'The Tempest', by William Shakespeare". Recording (39 minutes). 2) Geetanjali Shetty Kaul Workshop, "Guided
Meditation, Loving Kindness, Re-evaluating One's Life Journey, and Being
Present". Recording (53 minutes). 3) Giorgiana Elena Popan Workshop, "Improvisation in Storytelling". Recording (132 minutes). 4) Jasmina Žiljak Ilinčić Workshop, "Creative
Storytelling and Healing Power in Croatian Folktales". Recording (62 minutes). 5) Jennifer
Ramsay Workshop, "Grandfather
Death: Exploring Death Creatively". Recording (76 minutes). 6) Judy
England-McCarthy Workshop, "Changing
Paradigms Through Stories". Workshop info
is here. Recording (41 minutes). 7) Kristin
Pedemonti Workshop, "Melding
the Japanese Art of Kintsugi with Narrative
Therapy Practices". Recording (41 minutes). 8) Lani Peterson and
Jyoti Pande Workshop, "The 'Tree of
Life': Exploring Stories that Lead Us Back to Our
Whole Selves". Recording (39 minutes). 9) Lavanya Prasad,
Debjani Bhaduri, and Gayatri Kashyap Workshop, "Exploring the
Many Gods in Hinduism". In memory of Mee.
Pandiarajan. Recording (88 minutes). 10) Madras Association
of Storytellers (MAST) Workshop, "Story Theatre". Recording (73 minutes). 11) Mary Kuttikadan, Allison
Cox, and Meenakshi Devaraj Workshop, "Miscarriage
and Still-birth: Sharing Stories and Making Memories". Recording (45 minutes). 12) Mary Louise Chown
Workshop, "Shamanic
Elements in Folktales and Fairy Tales". Recording (83 minutes). 13) Ramya Arivazhagan
and K. Mashuda Muthi Workshop, "Reconnecting
with Oneself Through Memories". Recording (83 minutes). 14) Regina
Ress Workshop. "Captured
by the Troll". Recording (76 minutes). 15) Smita
Rajan Workshop. "Using
Movement and Storytelling to Overcome Traumas". Recording (83 minutes). 16) Sonia
Bareja Workshop, "Mindfulness and the Art of Storytelling, 2.0". Recording (22 minutes). *** B) CSF 2022, Storytellings.
(65) 1)
Allison Cox. 2)
Amrita Chauhan. 4)
Anagha Prasad and Meera Venkatesan. 5) Andrew Laufer. 6)
Anuradha CR. 7) Banumathy
H. 8)
Carrie
Sue Ayvar. 9) Dana Sherry. 10)
Devina
Rijhwani. 11) Divya Anand. 12) Ed Stivender. 13) Flavia Everman. 16) Haritha Kannan. 17)
Jackson Gillman. 18)
Jamie Brunson. 20) Jennifer Ramsay. 21)
Jon Sundell. 22) Kristin Pedemonti. 23) Lalitha Thilak, 1. 24) Lalitha Thilak, 2. 25)
Linda Marchisio. 26) Manisha Bhise and Meenu S. 27) Manjiri Gogate. 28) Maria LoBiondo. 29) Maricris Basto. 30)
Marijana Mrvos. 32)
Mary Louise Chown. 33) K. Mashuda Muthi. 34)
Michael Facherty. 35)
Nathalie Jendly. 36)
Nidhi Bagaria. 37)
Nilguen Yalay. 38)
Parvathy Eswaran and C. Mangalam
Senthil. 39) Pooja Giri. 40)
Pretigaya Haran. 41)
Priya Narayan. 43)
Radhieka Al Hakawati. 44)
Ramya Srinidhi. 45)
Regina Ress. 46) Renu Narayan. 47)
Rona Barbour. 48)
Salome D. 49)
Samatha Sharma. 50) Seema Karanth. 51) Sharada Sampathkumar. 52)
Shiraz Saini. 53)
Sree Karuna. 55)
Sridevi Srinivasan. 56) Steve Daut. 57) Sudha Umashanker. 58) Sudhir Pathak. 59) Susan Perrow. 60) Timothy Cope. 61) Walton Stanley. 62)
Wangari Grace. 63)
Valeria Elliott. 64)
Vibha Gulati. 65)
Vidhya KR. *** C) CSF 2022, Storytellings (long-form, and groups). (6) 1)
"Stories of Healing in Islam". Recording (61 minutes). 2)
"Stories from Jewish Culture". Recording
(133 minutes). 3) Elijah's Violin", a Jewish fairytale. Told by 4 storytellers, each telling a
chapter. Recording
(58 minutes). 4) "Cafe-storia", a drama featuring
storytelling. Presented by Springboard Tales. Recording
(81 minutes). 5)
"Timeless with Tagore: The Telling of Stories
Written by Rabindranath Tagore", and
told by Katha Krafters. Recording
(57 minutes). 6) "Rationalist Storytelling". Stories told by numerous storytellers. Recording
(85 minutes). *** D) CSF 2022, Other Sessions (in English). "Healing Story
Circle", led by Members of the Indian
Storytellers Healing Network. Recording (70 minutes). "Thunder: Perfect
Mind". Julia Haines performs
her composition for harp and voice
(the words are from an ancient text). Recording (22
minutes). *** E) CSF 2022, Storytelling in numerous Indian Languages. (3) 1) Hindi
Storytelling session. 2) Kannada
Storytelling session. 3)
Malayalam Storytelling session -- _________________________________________ (6th-7th, 13th-14th,
20th-21st, 27th-28th Feb 2021). A) Interactive
Talk. B) Workshops
(16). C) Storytelling
and Resonations Session. D) Storytelling
and Discussion Session. E) Storytellings
(59). *** A) Interactive Talk "Therapeutic Storymaking." Alida
Gersie (England).
Recording (57 min). 13 Feb 2021. *** B) Workshops (excerpts) (16) 1 "Create a Healing Fairy Tale," Allison Quaid (Germany). Recording
(70 min). 13 Feb 2021. 2 "Improvised
Group Storytelling," Bruce
Kirchoff and Katherine
Barron (USA). Recording (60 min). 20 Feb 2021.
3 "Creative
Storytelling for Resilience, Empathy, and Change," David
Heathfield (England). Recording
(44 min). 27 Feb 2021.
4 "Narrative Therapy." David
Newman (Australia).
Recording (83 min). 7 Feb 2021. 5 "Create your own Fantasy Healing-story." Teaching
Notes. Eric Milller
(Chennai). 28 Feb 2021. 6 "Organic Storytelling: Movement Efforts and
Storytelling for Self-awareness and Personal Growth." Gail Herman
and Jean Pao
Wilson (USA). Recording (68 min). 13 Feb 2021. 7 "Ways to Give Senses of Completion, Closure,
Wholeness, and Peace When Ending Stories and Storytellings." Geetanjali Shetty Kaul (Mumbai). Recording (70 min). 28 Feb 2021. 8 "Full Moon Ceremony and Story Workshop," Jennifer Ramsay (Spain). Recording (47 min). 27 Feb 2021. 9 "Storytelling for
Connection, Insight, and Transformation." Lani
Peterson (USA). Recording (71 min). 13 Feb 2021. 10 "Story in
Psychodrama, and in other Aspects of Expressive Arts Therapy." Magdalene
Jeyarathnam (Chennai). Recording (70 minutes). 20 Feb 2021. 11 "Storytelling for Helping Children to Develop Emotional
Intelligence" (for people who work with children). Mashuda
Muthi
(Chennai). Recording (93 min). 14 Feb 2021. 12 "The Power of Telling: High School Students Grow and Heal
While Telling Their Stories" (especially for adults who work with high
school students, or who would like to do so). Norah
Dooley
(USA). Recording (67
min). 6 Feb 2021.
13 "Mindfulness and
Storytelling." Sonia Bareja
Punhani (New Delhi).
Recording
(79 min).
14 Feb 2021. 14 "Using Therapeutic Stories with Children, Teenagers, and
Adults." Susan
Perrow (Australia). Recording
(75 min). 7 Feb 2021. 15 "Parallel
Narratives: Using Metaphor and Magic to Transform Life Stories." Trish
Denton (USA).
Recording (31 min). 27 Feb 2021. 16 "A Kenyan Interactive
Approach to Storytelling." Wangari Grace (Kenya). Recording
(67 min). 20 Feb 2021 *** C) Storytelling and Resonations Session Nilguen
Yalay
tells "The Seal Woman," and leads a discussion regarding ways the
story might apply to one's life. Recording
(67 min). 14 Feb
2021. *** D) Storytelling and Discussion Session "The Earth Story
Collection" presentation. Grian A.
Culanda (Spain), Donald
Smith (Scotland), Jennifer
Ramsay (Spain), and Alette
Willis (Scotland). Recording (88 min). 13 Feb 2021. *** E) Storytellings (59) Angela Halvorsen Bogo (Norway). Recording. 7
Feb 2021. Bandan Preet Mahajan (New Delhi). Recording. 7
Feb 2021. Barry Stewart Mann (USA). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Banumathy
H. (Banu) (Chennai). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. David
Heathfield (England). Recording.
21
Feb 2021. Debjani
Bhaduri
(Chennai). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Dimple Tahilramani
(Pune). Recording. 7
Feb 2021. Divya Anand (Chennai) Part
1, Recording. Part 2, Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Donna
Dudinsky (Canada). Recording. 21
Feb 2021. Eric Miller (Chennai). Recording. From
a recent "Storytelling by and for Adults" session. 27
Feb 2021. Faye Mogenson (Canada). Recording. 20
Feb 2021. Geetanjali Shetty Kaul (Mumbai). Recording. 14 Feb 2021. Geetha
Subramanian (Coimbatore). Recording.
28
Feb 2021. Howard Lieberman (USA). Part
1, Recording. Part 2, Recording. 20
Feb 2021. Jasmine Carvalho (Canada). Recording. 27
Feb 2021. Jasmina Žiljak (Croatia). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. John Richardson (USA). Recording. 6
Feb 2021. Judy England-McCarthy (USA). Recording. 20
Feb 2021. Jyoti Pande (Bhopal). Recording. 21
Feb 2021. Lani Peterson (USA). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Lavanya
Prasad
(Bangalore). Recording. Leena Kulkarni (Pune). Recording. 7
Feb 2021. Lynn Torrie (Canada). Recording. 27
Feb 2021. C. Mangalam Senthil (Coimbatore). Recording. 21
Feb 2021. Manisha Bhise (Bangalore). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Maricris Basto (Philippines). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Marijana Mrvos (Croatia). Recording. 7 Feb 2021. Mary Kuttikadan (Mumbai). Recording. 21
Feb 2021. Mary
Louise Chown (Canada). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Mashuda
Muthi
(Chennai). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Meenu S. (Bangalore). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Meera
Venkatesan (Bangalore). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Meher Gehi (Mumbai). Recording. 21
Feb 2021. Nagarajan S. (Chennai). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Nandita Sankaran (Bangalore). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Nidhi Bagaria (Mumbai). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Mee.
Pandiarajan (Chennai). Recording. 6
April 2021 Parvathy Eswaran (Bangalore). Recording. 21
Feb 2021. Poonam Joshy (Bangalore). Recording. 7 Feb 2021. Pratibha Ashtaputre (Bhilai,
Chhattisgarh). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. H. M. Patibha (Chennai). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Ramya Iyer (Bangalore). Recording. 21
Feb 2021. Renu Narayan (Chennai). Recording. 7
Feb 2021. Richard Swanson (USA). Recording. 6
Feb 2021. Sahil Raina (Mumbai). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Sangitaa Sehgall (Visakhapatnam). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Sharada Ryali (Hyderabad). Recording. 7
Feb 2021. Sharmilee Muralidharan (Chennai). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Shivani Dhillon (Chandigarh). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Smita Rajan (Mumbai). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Sonia Bareja
Punhani (New Delhi).
Recording. 7 Feb 2021. Sowmya
Srinivasan (Bangalore). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Srividya
Veeraraghavan (Chennai). Recording. 21
Feb 2021. Sue Hodson (South Africa). Recording. 28
Feb 2021. Surbhi Sarna (Bhubaneswar). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Uma Jairam Iyer (Chennai). Recording. Wangari Grace (Kenya). Recording. 28 Feb 2021 Valentina Ortiz Pandolfi (Mexico). Recording. 14
Feb 2021. Zarin
Maraikayar (Chennai). Recording.
21
Feb 2021. _________________________________________ CSF
2020 11 Feb 2020. The Chennai Storytelling
Festival 2020 Videoconference
Conversation. Topics included: "Storytelling
and Videoconferencing". The recording is here (64 minutes). 13 Feb 2020. Barry
Stewart Mann (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) joined us via
videoconference to give two presentations: "Using Storytelling to
Teach and Learn Math" (recording). And "Restorative Justice" (recording). _________________________________________ CSF
2019 6 Feb 2019. The Chennai
Storytelling Festival 2019 Videoconference
Conversation. Topics included: "Storytelling
for Creativity, Teaching, Training, and Healing", and "Living,
Thinking, and Telling Mythically". The recording is here (78 minutes). _________________________________________ CSF
2018 6 Feb 2018. The Chennai
Storytelling Festival 2018 Videoconference
Conversation: Topics included: 1)
"Storytelling for
Teaching, Training, and Healing: Helping
to Activate the Listener"; and 2) "The
state of the global Storytelling Revival." The participants were: 1) Sonia Carmona Tapia
-- Seville, Spain. 2) Tim Sheppard --
Bristol, England. 3) Regina Ress -- New
York City, USA. 4) Shiuly Kisku --
Mumbai. 5) Rony Banerjee --
Patna. 6) Krishna Chaitanya
-- Hyderabad. 7) Aparna Athreya --
Bangalore. 8) Sowmya Srinivasa --
Bangalore. 9) Radha Viswanathan
-- Chennai 10) Eric Miller --
Chennai 11) Cathryn Fairlee --
Chennai (based near San Francisco, California, USA). The recording is here (75 minutes). _________________________________________ CSF
2017 7 Feb 2017. The Chennai
Storytelling Festival 2017 Videoconference
Conversation. Topics included: 1)
"Storytelling in the World Today", 2)
"Storytelling for Teaching-and-learning", and 3)
"Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling". The videoconference's
Guest Co-host is Regina Ress, in Chennai. Info about, and a
link to a recording of, this videoconference is here. _________________________________________ CSF
2016 9 Feb 2016. The Chennai
Storytelling Festival 2016 Videoconference
Conversation. Topics included: 1) "Ways
Storytelling can be a form of Communication", and 2)
"The Storytelling Revival today". Info about, and a link
to a recording of, this videoconference is here. The
videoconference's Guest Co-host is Ruth Stotter, in Chennai. _________________________________________ CSF
2015 10 Feb 2015. The Chennai
Storytelling Festival 2015 Videoconference
Conversation. Topics included: "Using
Storytelling to Teach Languages". Info about, and a link
to a recording of, this videoconference is here. The
videoconference's Guest Co-host is Richard Martin, in Chennai. _________________________________________ CSF
2014 6 Jan 2014. The Chennai
Storytelling Festival 2014 Videoconference
Conversation. Topics included: "Storytelling
and Healing". Info about, and a link to a recording of,
this videoconference is here. a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
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