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 |