Chennai
Storytelling Festival 2021:
The Healing Power of Story,
Storytelling, and Story-enacting
(CSF2021-HPSx3)
Fri 5th to Sun 28th Feb 2021
This would be the 9th annual edition of the
CSF. Some documentation of CSF 2020
(which occurred in Feb 2020) is here.
|
Posters for the past 3 editions of the CSF are at https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2018Poster.jpg. https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2019Poster.jpg
. https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2020Poster.jpg
. Soon there would be an online
interactive Poster for CSF2021-HPSx3. |
Zoom sections of CSF2021-HPSx3 would occur
(all times are India time):
1) From Sat 6th Feb, 6:30pm -- going for 24
hours.
2) From Sat 13th Feb, 6:30pm -- going for 24
hours.
3) From Sat 20th Feb, 6:30pm -- at selected
times.
4) From Sat 27th Feb, 6:30pm -- at selected
times.
Also:
A) Telegu / Multilingual Storytelling on Sat
13th Feb
(timing to be announced).
B) Tamil Storytelling on Sat 20th Feb,
3pm-5:30pm.
***
Admission to all Zoom events of
CSF2021-HPSx3
would be free for all adults (and for all young
people
accompanied by adults).
To register to attend any or all CSF2021-HPSx3
Zoom events, please send an email request to
info@storytellinginstitute.org .
(The CSF is presented by the World Storytelling
Institute, an NGO registered in
Chennai, south India.)
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Some ideas about Storytelling
and Healing,
written by CSF director Dr Eric, are here.
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CSF2021-HPSx3 would feature:
B) Storytelling and
Healing -related Workshops
D) "Story and
Process" sessions
E) "Storytelling from
Villages"
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A) Storytellings
Each storytelling would go for up-to-10 minutes
and would be immediately followed by approximately
10 minutes of discussion, and possible role-play
with story characters.
Storytellers
(67. Some not yet
confirmed.)
Allison Quaid.
Ambujavalli N.
Banumathy H.
Barry Stewart Mann.
Bruce Kirchoff.
Connie Regan-Blake.
Debjani Bhaduri.
Divya Anand.
Ed Lewis.
Gail Herman.
Indu Divya.
Ivanir Sibylla Hasson.
Jangid Pushkar.
John Richardson.
Jyoti Arya.
Katherine Barron.
Kevin Cordi.
Khushboo Chokhani.
Lani Peterson.
Lavanya Prasad.
Lavanya Srinivas.
Mani Nachiappan.
Marijana Mary Mrvos.
Meher Gehi.
Mubeen Irshad.
Nidhi Bagaria.
Norah Dooley.
Pandiarajan M.
Paula Martín.
Poonam Joshy.
Pretigaya Haran.
Priti Sudarsan.
Priya Palanikumar.
Rachna Chowla.
Radha Balaraman.
Ramya Iyer.
Ramya Srinidhi.
Rebecca Lemaire.
Renu Narayan.
Rich Swanson.
Rona Barbour.
Rona Leventhal.
Roopa Mohan.
Salome D.
Sandhya Naren.
Sandhya Ruban.
Sangitaa Sehgall.
Sanjeev Kumar Singhal.
Shan Shanmugsundaram.
Sharmilee Muralidhara.
Sikha Gurung.
Shital Ravi.
Smita Rajan.
Sonia Bareja Punhani.
Sowmya Srinivasan.
Sristi Sengupta and Team.
Sridevi Srinivaasan.
Srividya V.
Steve Daut.
Sudha Umashanker.
Thenmozhi.
Tuaratini.
Uma Jairam.
Valentina Ortiz Pandolfi.
Vasugi Ram Manohar.
Wangari Grace.
Zarin Maraikayar.
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B) Storytelling and
Healing -related Workshops
(Number of Workshops: 25.
Duration of each Workshop: 85 minutes.)
1
"Process
Drama with Stories"
(including Restorative
Justice),
Barry Stewart Mann (Atlanta, USA),
2
"Improvised Storytelling,"
Bruce Kirchoff and Katherine Barron
(North Carolina, USA)
3
"Creative Storytelling for Resilience,
Empathy, and Change,"
David Heathfield (Exeter, England),
https://davidheathfieldblog.wordpress.com/storytelling
4
"Narrative Therapy,"
David Newman (Sydney, Australia),
https://www.sydneynarrativetherapy.com.au
5
"Create Your Own Fantasy Healing-story,"
Eric Miller (Chennai),
https://tinyurl.com/11-9-2019-article
,
https://centerforcounselling.org/dr-eric-miller
6
"Organic
Storytelling: Movement and Storytelling
for Self-awareness and
Personal Growth,"
Gail Herman (Massachusetts, USA),
7
"Creative Storytelling and Healing,"
Ivanir Sibylla Hasson (Oslo, Norway),
https://www.facebook.com/IvanirHasson
8
(To be announced),
Kevin Cordi (Ohio, USA),
9
"Storytelling for Connection, Insight,
and Transformation,"
Lani Peterson (Massachusetts,
USA),
10
"The Medicine Inside the Spoken Image."
In this workshop we would explore ways a
story can prepare us for healing ourselves,
for being in our being, and for restoring our
connection to the earth, to nature, to each
other, and to the spirit that informs the heart.
Laura Simms (New York City, USA),
11
"Storytelling for Emotional
Intelligence"
(for people working with adults),
Lavanya Srinivas (Chennai)
12
"Story in Psychodrama and other
Aspects of Expressive Arts Therapy,"
Magdalene Jeyarathnam (Chennai),
https://centerforcounselling.org/magdalene-jeyarathnam
TED talk, https://youtu.be/CfDUUugbTeY
13
"Storytelling for Emotional
Intelligence"
(for people working with children),
Mashuda Muthi (Chennai)
14
"The Power of Telling: High School Students
Grow and Heal While Telling Their Stories" --
A Workshop for Adults Who Work with High
School Students.
Norah Dooley (Massachusetts, USA),
15
"Storytelling and Conversations about Death and
Grief,"
Rebecca Lemaire (Spain),
16
"Creativity, Story, and Healing,"
Sayantani Dasgupta (NYC, USA),
Pediatrician and "Narrative Medicine" scholar,
now also an author of children's fantasy literature.
http://www.sayantanidasgupta.com/writer
,
http://www.sayantanidasgupta.com/writer/about
,
TED talk, "Radical Imagination: Children’s Literature
Changes the World," https://youtu.be/TC1qpIssxpE
17
"Storytelling for Emotional
Intelligence"
(for people working with older teenagers),
Shanmugasundaram
(Shan)
(Chennai),
https://www.artworkshoponline.com
18
"Movement and Storytelling,"
Smita Rajan (Mumbai) and Eric Miller (Chennai),
Smita Rajan's Linked
In page
19
"Mindfulness and Storytelling,"
Sonia Bareja Punhani (New Delhi),
https://www.facebook.com/PiedPiperSonia
20
"Building Connection and Empathy through
Storytelling,"
Steve Daut (Michigan, USA),
21
"Using Therapeutic
Stories with Children,
Teenagers, and Adults,"
Susan Perrow (Sydney, Australia),
22
"Parallel Narratives: Using Metaphor and
Magic to Transform Life Stories,"
Trisha Denton (Vermont, USA)
https://parallelnarratives.org
23
(To be announced),
Tuaratini (Auckland, New Zealand),
https://tinyurl.com/Pacific-Storytelling-article
24
"Interactivity in Storytelling"
(title not yet finalised),
Wangari Grace (Nairobi, Kenya),
https://www.wangarithestoryteller.co.ke
25
"The Story Within:
An application of Creative
Arts Therapy,"
Yehudit Silverman (Montreal, Canada),
https://www.yehuditsilverman.com/the-story-within
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C) Healing Story
Circles.
The session leaders would say some opening
words and then participants could tell related
personal-experience stories and other stories.
1) Led by the leaders of the Indian
Storytellers
Healing Network : Getanjali Shetty Kaul,
Jyoti Pande, Poonam Joshy, Sangitaa Sehgall,
and Sowmya Srinivasan.
2) Led by Ramya
Iyer.
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D) "Story and
Process" sessions.
The session leader would tell a story and
then there would be discussion and
participants' resonations.
Beatrice Salmon-hawk: Inanna.
Laura Simms: The
Demon in the Tower.
Or, Helen the All Wise.
Nilgün Yalay: The
Seal Woman (a Folktale in
Women Who Run with the Wolves).
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E) "Storytelling
from Villages."
Not on Map, https://www.notonmap.com/grandma-tales
(not yet confirmed).
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F) Panel Discussions.
CSF 2021 Storytellers would be among the
Invited Speakers.
The central question and topic would be:
"In what ways could stories and storytelling assist,
stimulate, and support healing processes?"
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