"Storytelling by and
for Adults,
inspired by Cafe Coffee
Day"
(now via
Zoom).
Presented by
This is a series of Open-mic
Storytelling sessions.
The sessions are usually held
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
https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com
)
For the past seven years (starting in
2013),
this series occurred in a Cafe
Coffee Day in Chennai. Now
it is
occurring via Zoom videoconference.
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
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6th July 2020 session --
Links to recordings of some of the
performances and discussions are
below.
3rd August 2020 session
--
Links to recordings of the performances
and discussions are here.
Upcoming sessions:
Monday 7th Sept 2020.
Monday 5th Oct 2020.
Monday 2nd Nov 2020.
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Links to recordings
of some of the tellings on
Monday 6th July 2020
Story topic:
"An important conversation"
1) Martin Manasse.
Story title: "The
Princess Who Would
Not Speak" (a fairytale).
Story characters (in conversation):
Characters who believe women should
belong to men, and characters who
believe otherwise.
A recording of the telling is here.
2) Sonia Bareja.
Story title: "An Event in
the Bhagavad
Gita" (the story of an
incident in an epic).
Story characters (in conversation):
Krishna and Arjuna.
A recording of the telling is here.
3) Leena Kulkarni.
Story title: "Iswaran" (a fictional
short
story by R. K. Narayan).
Story characters (in conversation):
Internal aspects of Iswaran, the story's
main character.
A recording of the telling is here.
4) Nisha Ramakrishnan.
Story title: "The
Unfortunate Son"
(the story of an incident in an epic).
Story characters (in conversation):
Karna and Kunti.
A recording of the telling is here.
5) Sangitaa Sehgall.
Story title: "The Faith
of a Sparrow"
(the story of an incident in an epic).
Story characters (in conversation):
Krishna and a sparrow.
A recording of the telling is here.
6) Belinda McKenna-Bicknell.
Story title: "An
Unexpected Outcome"
(A personal-experience story).
Story characters (in conversation):
Belinda and a colleague.
A recording of the telling is here.
7) Zarin M.
Story title: "My Guilt
Trip"
(an original
creative story, inspired by the book,
"The Truth about India's Manual
Scavengers").
Story characters (in conversation):
Zarin and the son of a manual scavenger.
A recording of the telling is here.
9) Meher Gehi.
Story title: "The Eyes
Have It"
(a fictional short story by Ruskin Bond).
Story characters (in conversation):
A man and a woman.
A recording of the telling is here.
10) Manoj Mani.
Story title: "A
Conversation that Changed
the Course
of a Cricket Match" (a story
about a real-life incident).
Story characters (in conversation):
Two players.
A recording of the telling is here.
11) Eric Miller.
Story title: "President
Donald Trump
and Dr Eric
Miller have a conversation"
(an original creative story).
Story characters (in conversation):
President Donald Trump and Dr Eric Miller.
A recording of the telling is here.
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