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

 

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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.ponnivala.com

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.

 

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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. 

www.tellatale.eu

 

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).

 

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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.

www.puppetwonders.com

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.

www.deepakiran.in

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.

www.ever-after.co.in

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.

 

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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) --

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Workshop: "Storytelling in the Montessori Classroom".

For teachers and parents of young children.

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Workshop: "Storytelling with Music and Dance for and by Children  with Special Needs".

For teachers and parents of children with Special Needs.

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Workshop: "Creating your Personality and Future Through Personal-experience Storytelling".

A) For Teenagers. 

B) For teachers and parents of teenagers.

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Workshop: "Solving Problems and Resolving Conflicts through Story Making and Storytelling in the Corporate Context".

A) For adults.

B) For trainers of adults.

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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

 

 

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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.