Welcome to the Monday 11th Dec 2023

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 –

Martin Manasse.

Sonia Bareja.

Leena Kulkarni.

Nisha Ramakrishnan.

Sangitaa Sehgall.

Belinda McKenna-Bicknell.

Zarin M.

Meher Gehi.

Manoj Mani.

Eric Miller.

Recordings.

 

2) 3rd August 2020 session –

Fania Hazan.

Indira Krishnan.

Sikha Gurung and David Heathfield.

Rona Barbour.

Manjiri Gogate.

Vishal Gunani.

Radha Balaraman.

Sanjeev Kumar Singhal.

Recordings. 

 

3) 7th Sept 2020 session –

Anubha Tiwary.

Geethanjali Javed.

Mani Nachiappan.

Sandhya Nare.

Uma Jairam.

Murali Dhar.

Rinah Sheleff.

Recordings.  

 

4) 5th Oct 2020 session –

Sephie Shochat-Beeri.

Ramya Srinidhi.

Zarin Maraikayar.

Smita Rajan.

Hemalatha Ramesh.

Ed Lewis.

Sue Hodson. 

Recordings.

 

5) 2nd Nov 2020  session –

Jeff Gere.

Barry Stewart Mann.

 Ahn Sook.

Meher Gehi.

Priya Balasubramanian.

Sahil Raina.

Digavalli Nageswara Rao.

Recordings. 

 

6) 7th Dec 2020 session –

Donna Dudinsky.

Maricris Basto.

Hanna Sender.

Sudhir Pathak.

Jackson Gillman.

Xina Mercken.

Recordings. 

 

7) 4th Jan 2021 session –

Michael Facherty.

Rachna Chowla.

Vinita Bhatnagar.

Joyce Slater.

Oluwaseun Odukoya (Aunty Shine-Shine).

Briane Nasimok.

Recordings.

 

In Feb 2021,

we took a break and focused on

Chennai Storytelling Festival 2021 ,

the Festival's 9th annual edition

(and the 1st edition to occur via Zoom).

 

8) 8th March 2021 session –

Prakrati Agrawal.

Lilach Tzur.

Kanagadurga Ramesh.

Sarbani Sen.

Ameya Puranik.

Jyoti Pande.

J. Lalitha.

Recordings.

 

9) 5th April 2021 session –

Flavia Everman.

Jennifer Munro.

Usha Chhabra.

Hemalatha Ramesh.

Manisha Bhise.

Aditi Mangal.

Recordings.

 

10) 3rd May 2021 session –

Indira Krishnan.

C. Mangalam Senthil.

Anuradha Batra.

Pankhuri Agrawal.

Liz Nichols.

Recordings.

 

11) 7th June 2021 session –

Meenu S.

Beverly Schwartz.

Renu Narayan.

Mee. Pandiarajan.

Howard Lieberman.

Digavalli Nageswara Rao.

Roopa Mohan.

Recordings.

 

12) 5th July 2021 session –

Dimple Tahilramani.

Jackson Gillman.

Ramya Srinidhi.

Sudha Umashanker.

Mani Nachiappan.

Nagarajan S.

Padma R.

Recordings.

 

13) 2nd August 2021 session –

Donna Dudinsky.

Zarin Maraikayar.

Amrita Chauhan.

Briane Nasimok.

Robin Bady.

Sheila Arnold.

Recordings.

 

14) 6th Sept 2021 session –

Annapoorani Barani.

Anagha Prasad.

Ambuja N.

Norman Perrin.

Khusshbo Chokhani.

Pratibha A.

Sree Karuna.

Recordings.

 

15) 4th Oct 2021 session –

Kalyan Babu.

Jay Leeming.

Anitha Ranjit.

Sita Srinivas.

Sharanya Sriram.

Milbre Burch.

Katie Green.

Recordings.

 

16) 1st Nov 2021 session –

Kajal Goswami.

David O'Shea.

Geethanjali Javed.

Simran Nagwani.

Mary Kuttikadan.

Michael Williams.

Carol Birch.

Recordings.

 

17) 6th Dec 2021 session –

Manjiri Gogate.

Devina Rijhwani.

Priya Narayan.

Meera Venkatesan.

Parvathy Eswaran.

Rinah Sheleff.

Joyce Slater.

Recordings.

 

18) 3rd Jan 2022 session –

Kahaniwachak Swati.

Neerupama Vadera.

Susan Ida Boucaud.

Surekha Dey.

Amrita Chauhan.

Vandana Sharma.

Meenakshi Sharma.

Recordings.

 

In Feb and March 2022,

we took a break and focused on

Chennai Storytelling Festival 2022 ,

the Festival's 10th annual edition

(and the 2nd edition to occur via Zoom).

 

19) 4th April 2022 session –

Eswaran N.

Lalitha Thilak.

Nidhi Gujral.

Lokesh Kumaar Maavilla.

Shraddha Nigavekar.

Mani Nachiappan.

Recordings.

 

20) 2nd May 2022 session –

Despoina Aristeidou.

Lavanya Prasad.

Veena Seethepalli.

Szabó Enikő.

Sandhya Naren.

Nidhi Sehgal.

Recordings.

 

21) 6th June 2022 session –

Raji Reddy.

Padma Rangaraj.

Smita Rajan.

Shilpa Mehta.

Alex M. Stein.

Hanna Sender.

Recordings.

 

22) 4th July 2022 session –

Anagha Prasad.

Divya Vijayakumar.

Lipika Mohanty.

Kalyan Babu.

Chitra Chandrashekhar.

Vicky Ness.

Recordings.

 

23) 1st August 2022 session –

Bala Ramaswamy.

Beverly Schwartz.

Ria Jain.

Surekha Dey.

Gustavo von Bischoffshausen.

Renu Narayan.

Recordings.

 

24) 5th Sept 2022 session –

Tanuja Majeti.

Anuradha CR.

Anusuya Bhattacharyya.

Kapila Nagpal.

Srividya V.

Recordings.

 

25) 3rd Oct 2022 session –

Priya Narayan.

Shan K.

Meenakshi Sharma.

Pretigaya Haran.

Regina Ress.

Judith Heineman.

Recordings.

 

26) 7th Nov 2022 session –

Kala Sundaram.

Marin Magat.

June Brown.

Srabanti Basu.

Ramya Srinidhi.

Carol Birch.

Recordings.

 

27) 5th Dec 2022 session –

Haritha K.

Rona Barbour.

Geetanjali Shetty Kaul.

Zarin Maraikayar.

Lalitha Sivapurapu.

Valeria Elliott.

Recordings.

 

28) 2nd Jan 2023 session –

Arthi Mangalam.

Shylaja Sampath.

Manjiri Gogate.

Parvathy Eswaran.

Jo Radner.

Recordings.

 

In Feb, March, and April 2023,

we took a break and focused on

Chennai Storytelling Festival 2023 ,

the Festival's 11th annual edition

(and the 3rd edition to occur via Zoom).

 

29) 1st May 2023 session –

Anagha Prasad.

David Heathfield.

Priyanka Sagar.

Laxmi Balaji.

Bruce Marcus.

Recordings.

 

30) 5th June 2023 session –

Leslie Schaffer.

Shilpa Mehta.

Despina Aristeidou.

Shraddha Nigavekar.

Vicky Ness.

Recordings.

 

31) 3rd July 2023 session –

Beverly Schwartz and Susan Ida Boucaud.      

Preeti Purohit.

Lalitha Sastry.

Denise McCormack.

Tom Yeager.

Recordings.

 

32) 7th August 2023 session –

Jayanthi B.

Rohini Jayanti.

Bala Ramaswamy.

Ramya Srinidhi.

Briane Nasimok.

Recordings.

 

33) 4th September 2023 session –

Lalitha Thilak.

Marleny.

Lipika Mohanty.

Digavalli Nageswara Rao.

Recordings.

 

34) 2nd October 2023 session –

Eric Miller.

Lopamudra Singh.

Sowmya Srinivasan.

Sudha Umashanker.

Alistair Martin.

P. Mohanraj.

Recordings.

 

35) 6th November 2023 session –

Padma Balachandran.

Pretigaya Haran.

Katie Green.

Susan Ida Boucaud.

Judy England-McCarthy.

Recordings.

 

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     "Storytelling by and for Adults"

 

              The Program on

         Monday 11th Dec 2023

 

1) Shukrita Sankaran (in Mumbai) told

"Menaka and the Warrior Spirit" (an original fictional story).

The recording is here.        

 

2) Jay Miller (in Budapest) told

"The Schoolyard is My Beat: My First Week of

Teaching in the South Bronx " (a personal-experience story).

The recording is here.                                

 

3) Mohan Krishnan (in Chennai) told

"Heartaches and a Numbness Overcomes... :

The Experience of a Person Caught in the

Aftermath of the Cyclonic Storm in Chennai "

(a personal-experience story).

The recording is here.        

 

4) Kapila Nagpal (in Bhubaneswar) told

"Two Falcolns" (a folktale).

The recording is here.                    

 

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Optional theme: "Personal growing and maturing

(and possibly also community growing and maturing)."

Also, lively dialogue between story characters is encouraged.

 

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Some suggestions regarding

"Storytelling (and Videoconferencing)"

are here.

 

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Contact:

info@storytellinginstitute.org

 

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