List of 21+ Workshops on "Storytelling for Teaching and Training" (and one Panel Discussion and one Talk) For Adults and Teenagers Wed 4 to Fri 13 Feb Parts of Chennai Storytelling
Festival 2015, Wed 4 to Sun 15 Feb Presented by the World Storytelling Institute ( www.storytellinginstitute.org
) and Others ____________________________ Panel Discussion (with Descriptions and Demonstrations of
Methods) on "Using Storytelling for Teaching
Languages", and "Using
Storytelling to Help Develop Language Skills in Young Children". 1) Richard Martin. 2) Kiran
Shah. 3) Geeta
Ramanujam. 4) Usha Venkatraman. 5) Shreya
Biswas. 6) Deepa Kiran. 7) Albert P'Rayan. 8) Asha
Sampath. 9) Sheetal
N., 10) Sandhya
Ruban, 11) Uma Balu. For teachers, parents,
college students, and anyone else who might be interested. Day and time: Friday 13
Feb, 4pm-6pm. Venue: Alliance
Francaise Auditorium, College Road. Admission: Rs 100. Talk by Brenda Beck (Canada) -- "Ways Canadian
Teachers are Using a 13-hour Animation of an Indian Folk Epic in Their
Classrooms". For teachers, and anyone
else who might be interested. www.legendofponnivala.blogspot.in
The public is invited
(free): 1) Thurs 12 Feb, at
11:30am__Loyola College. 2) Fri 13 Feb, at
11am__University of Madras (Chepauk campus), Hall G-33, Centenary Building. _________________ To
Register for -- or to
Arrange to Host -- a
Workshop, please contact
the Festival Office at 98403 94282 and info@storytellinginstitute.org , or
contact the Workshop Leader directly. The
duration of these Workshops would
generally be 90 or 120 minutes (or
briefer if needed, for school classes, etc). For
Locations in Chennai, Admission
fees, and other details please
contact the Festival Office. Workshop Leaders: 1) Richard Martin
(Germany). 2) Kiran Shah
(Australia). 3) Dhara Kothari
(Mumbai). 4) Usha Venkatraman
(Mumbai). 5) Deepa Kiran
(Hyderabad). 6) Deeptha Vivekanand
(Bangalore). 7) Shreya Biswas
(Bangalore). 8) Sowmya
Srinivasan and Aparna Athreya (Bangalore). 9) Asha Sampath
(Chennai). 10) Debjani Badhuri
(Chennai). 11) Indu Divya (Chennai). 12) Lavanya Srinivas
(Chennai). 13) Mohan Krishnan
(Chennai). 14) Priya Palanikumar(Chennai). 15) Dr Pushpa Nagini
Sripada (Chennai) 16) Sandhya Ruban
(Chennai). 17) K. Shanmugasundaram
(Shan) (Chennai). 18) Sheetal N
(Chennai). 19) Sudha Umashankar
(Chennai). 20) Vasugi Ram Manohar
(Chennai). 21) Vikram Sundarraman
and Dr G Shankar (Chennai) . 1 Richard Martin (Germany) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling to Teach English Language". Workshop: "Using
Storytelling in Teaching". For teachers, and anyone
else who might be interested. 1) Tues 10 Feb,
4-6pm. General Storytelling Workshop.
@ Hippocampus, 11, Third
Ave, Indiranagar, Adyar. 044 2443 3544. 044 4211 6417. For Teenagers and adults.
Admission: Rs 200 per
person (for non-members). ------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Wed 11 Feb, 10:30am -
12:30pm. Workshop in "Using Storytelling to Help People Improve Their English-language Business Communication Skills".
@ Indian Institute of
Project Management. 19, Dhandapani St (2nd
floor), T Nagar. 98403 94282. For trainers, and any other adults who might be interested.
Admission: Rs 300. 2 Kiran Shah (Australia) -- Workshop: "Audience-participation
in Storytelling". For adults who work and
play with children -- such as parents and teachers -- and anyone else who
might be interested. www.storytellingsingapore.com/book-a-teller/kiran-shah Day: Fri 13 Feb. Time: 11:30am to
1pm. Venue: Hansel and Gretel
(Children's Activity Centre). No 11, Jagadambal St, T
Nagar (off Dr Nair Road, which
is between GN Chetty Road and Pondy Bazaar Road). Admission: Rs 300. For additional details,
please call 98403 94282. To Register, Please contact Hansel
and Gretel -- Chennai mobile: 98404
31549. E-mail:
hanselandgretel.kids@gmail.com . Website: www.hanselandgretel.in . People interested in the
above-described Workshop might also be interested in this Workshop,
which would occur directly beforehand at the same venue. 3 Dhara Kothari (Mumbai) -- Workshop:
"Using Storytelling Games to Make-up Stories, and Telling Stories with
Audience-participation". For people of all types
and ages. www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Mumbai.html#Dhara Fri 13 Feb,
morning. Venue to be announced. 4 Usha Venkatraman (Mumbai) -- Workshop: "Storytelling
to Promote Environmental Awareness". Addressing concepts such as Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle --
as well as Conservation and Sustainability.
Curriculum areas would include Visual Arts, English Language Arts,
Science, and Life Skills. Paper
puppets, and music and songs, would be utilised. A) For adults such
as educators, librarians, and parents. B) For teenagers. Fri 13 Feb,
morning. Venue to be announced. 5 Deepa Kiran (Hyderabad) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling -- and Drawing, Role-playing, and Creative Writing -- to Help
Build Abilities and Confidence in Young People Regarding Spoken and Written
Language". For young people and/or
their parents and teachers. Fri 13 Feb,
morning. Satyabama University, Dept of
English. As part of Femfest 2015. 6 Deeptha Vivekanand (Bangalore) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling to Teach Academic Subjects". Stories can be used to heighten interest
even in subjects that may at first seem "dry". Personifying
abstract elements can make principles and processes of subjects like Math,
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Geography adventurous and fascinating. Regarding
Social Studies / the Social Sciences (History, Anthropology, Sociology, etc):
Workshop Participants would be taught ways of creating stories featuring
characters who experience what people in given cultures and time periods
were/are experiencing. Ways of
embodying in stories the Ideas, Questions, and Conflicts in particular
societies would be demonstrated. Story-creation
techniques, and sample lesson plans, would be presented. Workshop
Participants could raise topics they might be interested in teaching about,
and in small groups they could develop stories in relation to these topics. For adults -- especially
teachers on school and college levels. Fri 6 Feb, 10am - Noon. Admission: Rs 300. Venue: World
Storytelling Institute -- Kilpauk Garden space. Near New Avadi
Road. For additional info
about the content of the Workshop, please call (Bangalore) 99166 41717. To Register, and to
receive the precise address and directions, please call (Chennai) 98403 94282
and/or e-mail to info@storytellinginstitute.org . 7 Shreya Biswas (Bangalore) -- Workshop: "Using Storytelling to Teach and
Train Special Needs Children (Cerebral Palsy, etc)".
Exploring ways storytelling could be used to teach
language and concepts -- with activities that could help the children
to learn. For parents and teachers of Special Needs children, and
anyone else who might be interested. www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Bangalore.html#Shreya Thurs 12 Feb, 10am to
Noon. British Council. Admission: Rs 300 for
members, Rs 500 for non-members. 8 Sowmya Srinivasan and Aparna Athreya (Bangalore) -- Workshop: "Multi-sensory
Storytelling". Concerning creating stories around objects from daily
life; using props, puppets, pictures, and objects in storytelling; and
creating an enhanced sensorial experience for children. The Workshop is further described here. For adults -- such as
parents and teachers of children, and anyone else who might be interested.
www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Bangalore.html#Sowmya and www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Bangalore.html#Aparna
1) Day: Fri 13 Feb. Time: 9:30am to
11am. Venue: Hansel and Gretel
(Children's Activity Centre). No 11, Jagadambal St, T
Nagar (off Dr Nair Road, which
is between GN Chetty Road and Pondy Bazaar Road). Admission: Rs 300. For additional details,
please call (Bangalore) 97315
70615. To Register, Please contact Hansel
and Gretel -- Mobile (Chennai): 98404
31549. E-mail:
hanselandgretel.kids@gmail.com . Website: www.hanselandgretel.in . People interested in the
above-described Workshop might also be interested in this Workshop,
which would occur directly afterwards at the same venue. ------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Fri 13 Feb, 2pm -
3:30pm. Sankalp Learning Centre,
Mogappair. 9 Asha Sampath (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling to Teach Math, Science, and Language". For teachers, parents,
and others who work and play with children.
www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Chennai.html#Asha
10 Debjani Badhuri (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling to Inculcate a Sense of Humour in Children, and Also to Help
Them Develop a Sense of Positivity, and Overcome Shyness". This Workshop would focus on the use of body language -- such as
facial expressions, posture, gestures, and styles of movement. We would develop stories on topics such as
recycling, avoiding air, land, and water pollution, achieving cleanliness and
good hygiene, and physical features of India.
Once children begin thinking about stories they often, with lot of
zeal, start imagining stories involving small things they come across. For parents and teachers of children
approx 6-10 years old. www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Chennai.html#Debjani 11 Indu Divya (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Public
Speaking and Storytelling -- Using Storytelling to Win Over Your
Audience". A) For teenagers. B) For adults. Wed 11 Feb, 4:30 -
6:30pm. @ Indian Institute of
Project Management. 19, Dhandapani St (2nd
floor), T Nagar. For Adults. Admission: Rs 300. 12 Lavanya Srinivas (Chennai) -- --- Workshop: "Storytelling
in the Montessori Classroom". For teachers and parents
of young children. --- Workshop: "Storytelling
with Music and Dance for and by Children
with Special Needs". For teachers and parents
of children with Special Needs. --- Workshop: "Creating
your Personality and Future Through Personal-experience Storytelling". A) For Teenagers. B) For teachers and
parents of teenagers. --- Workshop: "Solving
Problems and Resolving Conflicts through Story Making and Storytelling in the
Corporate Context". A) For adults. B) For trainers of
adults. --- www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Chennai.html#Lavanya 13 Mohan Krishnan (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling as a Method for Corporate and Management Training: Regarding
Decision-making, Delegation, Teamwork, and Leadership Initiatives". For storytellers,
corporates, trainers, student trainers, and school and college teachers are
especially welcome. Parents of teenage
children might also gain immensely from this programme. Saturday 7 Feb, 10am to
12:30pm. The venue is in RA
Puram. Details are here. 14 Priya Palanikumar (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using Storytelling to Explore Ethical
Reasoning and Stereotyping" (90 minutes). The stories would concern
logic, and choices made while facing moral predicaments and everyday
stereotyping. For
teenagers and adults. Info about the Workshop
Leader is here . www.facebook.com/Openstoryworld E-mail: openstoryworld@gmail.com 15 Dr Pushpa Nagini Sripada
(Chennai) -- Workshop: "Storytelling Techniques for
Improving the Speaking Skills of College Students and Professionals". Additional info about the
Workshop, and the Workshop leader, is here. For
instructors of college students, and trainers of adults. 16 Sandhya Ruban (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using
Traditional Stories Featuring Riddles and Open Endings to Foster Creative
Thinking in Young Adults". For teenagers. www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Chennai.html#Sandhya 17 K. Shanmugasundaram (Shan) (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling to Teach-and-learn About and Apply Science and Technology". A) For teachers, parents,
and any other adults who might be interested.
B) For teenagers. www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Chennai.html#Shan 18 Sheetal N. (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling to Teach Math". For teachers and parents
of both Special Needs children and children in general. www.indianstorytellingnetwork.org/Chennai.html#Sheetal 19 Sudha Umashankar (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling to Teach History to Young People". A) For teachers, parents,
and any other adults who might be interested.
B) For teenagers www.linkedin.com/pub/sudha-umashanker/6/465/495 21 Vasugi Ram Manohar (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Using
Storytelling to Help Young Children Develop Their Communication Skills". Many parents come to my weekly Storytelling sessions
saying, "My child is shy in the classroom, or sometimes refuses to
answer the teacher in class, or is introverted and sometimes refuses to
socialize with other classmates - and can you help them with these
issues?" I think Storytelling offers an excellent solution, because once
a child wants to tell a story in class, the child loses her inhibitions and
is communicative and very social. The Workshop would focus on 1. Effective ways of telling stories to young children. 2. Using props and puppets to bring characters to life. 3. Drawing characters and episodes of stories. 4. Role-playing, and making-up dialogue. 5. Narrating in sequence. 6. Discussing the story in a group. For parents, pre-school
teachers, and anyone else who might be interested. https://www.facebook.com/MadrasStoryWorks 22 Vikram Sundarraman and Dr G Shankar (Chennai) -- Workshop: "Celebrating
Diversity and That Which Cannot be Labeled: Using Storytelling to Explore
Experiences Relating to Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Other Identity
Issues". Workshop participants would share stories, feelings, and points of
view. They might tell and discuss
stories about their own and others' experiences, stories from folklore and
myth, and even stories from their imaginations. Workshop participants might decide to form a team, and this team might
in time use some of the material generated in this Workshop in Talks,
Performances, and Workshops -- to educate, entertain, and/or facilitate
development in, others. For people over 18 years of age. E-mail: vikramsundarraman@gmail.com __________________________ The
schedule of Storytelling performances is here. The
schedule of the Festival's free two-day Seminar (on Sat 14 and Sun 15 Feb) at the
University of Madras (Chepauk campus) is here. |
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