"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.
8)
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.
9)
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.
10)
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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