Welcome to

        the Monday 6th July 2026

                  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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     "Storytelling by and for Adults"

 

                     The Program on

              Monday 6th July 2026

 

1)  Swati Jain (in New Delhi) told "A Cup of Tea"

(a personal-experience story).

The recording is here.        

 

2)  Jayanthi Balasubramanian (in Chennai)

told "The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree"

(a fictional story written by Hans Christian

Anderson in 1858). 

The recording is here.                                

 

3)  Nivedita Sinha (in Jamshedpur) told "The

Thief's Story" (a fictional story written by Ruskin

Bond in the 1950s).

The recording is here.

                       

4)  Priyanka Sagar Mahesh (in Noida) told

"Kabuliwala" (a fictional story written by

Rabindranath Tagore in 1892).

The recording is here.                    

 

5)  7:20pm India time.

Veena Parveen Hasan (in Guwahati) told

"Memories Rekindled" (a fictional story,

author unknown).

The recording is here.        

 

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Suggested story theme:

"Growing, Maturing, and Transforming".

 

Encouraged: Dialogue between story characters,

and/or between inclinations within a single character.

 

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Some suggestions regarding

"Storytelling (and Videoconferencing)"

are here.

 

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Contact:

info@storytellinginstitute.org

 

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