Fri 2nd to Sun 25th Feb 2024
2nd,
3rd, 4th Feb.
9th, 10th, 11th Feb.
16th, 17th, 18th Feb.
23rd, 24th, 25th Feb.
This is the Festival's 12th annual edition.
Festival theme:
Storytelling and
"Personal Growing and Maturing (and
Community Growing and Maturing)".
All Free!
All Zoom!
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The CSF 2024 program in 4
time-zones are at –
1) India time,
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF24__India_timings.pdf
2) Central European time,
and West Africa time,
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF24__Albania_etc_timings.pdf
3) USA and Canada Eastern
time,
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF24__USA_and_Canada_Eastern_timings.pdf
4) USA and Canada Pacific
time,
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF24__USA_and_Canada_Pacific_timings.pdf
For timings elsewhere, one could use this time-zone converter.
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If you have been receiving monthly emails about our
storytelling sessions ("Storytelling by and for Adults",
etc)
you are already registered for CSF 2024 and would
receive the Zoom links via email.
If you are not
yet receiving such emails: to register
for CSF 2024,
please send an email request to
info@storytellinginstitute.org
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The CSF 2024 poster is
at
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2024Poster.pdf
The CSF 2024 Facebook
page is here.
There are 103 Presenters.
Please click on the name of
a Presenter to see that person's program info,
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF2024_Presenters.html
CSF 2024 is a free festival.
There are no admission fees,
and the Presenters are not being paid by the festival.
Festival attendees are encouraged to give contributions
to individual Presenters. Info
about how to give a
contribution is at each Presenter's listing. To give a
contribution to the festival, please click here.
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Special features of CSF
2024 include:
1) Numerous
sessions for/by/with children.
2) Six Storytelling Sessions in
Indian Languages other than English.
3) A
90-minute Storytelling, and a 90-minute Workshop by Laura Simms.
(Sat 10 Feb, and Sat 17
Feb).
4) An
eight-session Workshop on Story Composition (Making-up
Stories)
by Eric Miller (9pm-10pm each Fri and Sat of the
Festival).
5) A Discussion
about "Ways the Dravidian Movement has Used
Stories to Communicate
Its Messages" (Sun 25 Feb).
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Links to Fliers of some particular sessions are here.
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Please make and send recordings of storytellings!
CSF 2024's
schedule is set. However, people are
invited
to make and send
in recordings of storytellings (in any
language) to CSF
2024 (to info@storytellinginstitute.org
,
or 98403 94282 ). Recording on a mobile phone would
be fine. One way to send a recording is via this website.
Up to Sun 18
Feb.
The
theme of Chennai Storytelling Festival 2024 is
Storytelling
and "Personal Growing and Maturing (and
possibly
also Community Growing and Maturing)." Dialogue
between
(and within) characters is encouraged. Any kind
of
story would be fine (personal-experience stories, folktales,
historical
stories, original fictional stories, etc).
One of these
recordings (in each language) would be named
the "Most touching and
moving".
Links the recordings received so
far are here.
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The Chennai Storytelling Festival is presented by the
World
Storytelling Institute in association
with the
Chennai Storytellers group and other organisations and
individuals.
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Recordings of events in
past editions of the CSF are
here.
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Please send comments and questions to
info@storytellinginstitute.org
or call
+91 98403 94282
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1) Numerous Sessions for/by/with Children.
CSF 2024 Sessions
for/by/with Children
are here as a list,
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF24_Children.pdf
and
are here as a flier,
https://storytellinginstitute.org/CSF24Children.pdf
Also, 2:30pm-4:30pm
India time) on each Saturday of
CSF 2024 (on each
Saturday of February), there would
be storytelling for
people of all ages.
The Festival program is
here.
Fliers for particular
Sessions for/by/with Children
(India times are
given):
Storytelling for Children,
hosted by Divya
Vijayakumar
Starting on Sat 3 Feb,
6:00pm. The flier is here.
Storytelling by Children,
hosted by Divya
Vijayakumar
Starting on Sun 4 Feb,
4:30pm (India time). The flier is here.
Storytelling
Workshop for Children, and
Storytelling by
Children,
hosted by Kalyan
Babu.
Sat 10 Feb, 6:00pm. The flier is here.
Storytelling
for Children, with Activities.
Hosted by Sridevi
Srinivasan. Sun 11 Feb, 4:30pm.
The flier is here.
Storytelling by
Children,
hosted by Kalyan
Babu
Sun 11 Feb, 6:00pm. The flier is here.
Storytelling for Children,
with Activities.
Hosted by Renu Narayan, Renuga Bharath,
Shyama Sridharan, and Vithya Dhanaraj.
Sun 18 Feb, 5:00pm. The flier is
here.
(More fliers coming soon.)
3) Six Storytelling Sessions in Indian Languages
other than English.
In CSF 2024
there would be six Storytelling Sessions
in Indian
Languages other than English. The
programs
are set, and
fliers are coming soon. Each program
would have its
own Zoom link.
1) Malayalam. Sun 4th Feb,
4pm-6pm.
Host: Racika Raman <mrs.raman71 (at) gmail.com>
The
flier (containing the Zoom link) is here.
2) Multiple
Languages. Sat 10th Feb, 3pm-5pm.
Host: Sree Karuna <sreekaruna.g (at) gmail.com>
The flier (containing the Zoom
link) is here.
3) Tamil. Sun 11th Feb, 3:30pm-6pm.
Host: Sudha Umashanker <sudha.umashanker (at)
gmail.com>
The
flier (containing the Zoom link) is here.
4) Telugu. Sat 17th Feb, 3pm-5pm.
Host: Lavanya Srinivas <laavanyasrinivas (at)
gmail.com>
The
flier (containing the Zoom link) is here.
5) Kannada. Sun 18th Feb, 4pm-6pm.
Host: Lakshmi V <lakshmi341987 (at) gmail.com>
The
flier (containing the Zoom link) is here.
6) Hindi. Sat 24th Feb, 3pm-5pm.
Host: Sonia Bareja <soniabareja76 (at)
gmail.com>
The flier (containing the Zoom
link) is here.
Fliers
The following sessions are in English.
The times given are India time.
1
Persuasive Presentations Workshop,
led by Geethanjali
Javed. Fri 2 Feb, 5:30pm.
The flier is here.
2
Storytelling Session. Fri 2 Feb, 7:00pm.
The flier is here.
3
Storytelling for Encouragement Workshop,
led by Sheetal
Rayathatha. Sat 3 Feb, 2:50pm.
The flier is here.
4
Storytelling for Children, hosted by Divya
Vijayakumar.
Sat 3 Feb, 6:00pm. The flier is here.
5
Storytelling Workshop for Children, led by Sheetal
Rayathatha. Sat 3 Feb, 10:30am. The flier is here.
6
Katha Krafters Storytelling. Sat 3 Feb, Noon.
The flier is here.
7
Storytelling for adults, by Ramendra
Kumar.
Sat 3 Feb, 1:00pm. The flier
is here.
8
Parallel Stories Workshop, led by Ambujavalli
N.
Sat 3 Feb, 7:30pm. The flier
is here.
9
Bringing Stories of the World to Local Readers
and Listeners Workshop, led by Maricris
Basto.
Sun 4 Feb, 9:00am. The flier
is here.
10
Storytelling by Children, hosted by Divya
Vijayakumar.
Sun 4 Feb, 4:30pm. The flier
is here.
11
Spoken English Workshop, led by Banumathy
H.
Sun 4 Feb, 3:00pm. The flier
is here.
12
Springboard Tales Storytelling. Sun 4 Feb, 6:00pm.
The flier is here.
13
Exploring Dreams through Psychodrama Workshop,
led by Magdalene
Jeyarathnam. Sun 4 Feb, 7:30pm.
The flier is here.
14
Storytelling for Planning Workshop,
led by Sheetal
Rayathatha. Fri 9 Feb, 5:00pm.
The flier is here.
15
Story Composition Workshop, led by Eric
Miller
Fridays and Saturdays in
Feb, 9:00pm. The flier is here.
16
Bowsong Workshop, led by Lavanya
Prasad.
Sat 10 Feb, Noon. The flier is here.
17
Storytelling Session. Hybrid: One could attend
at Chennai's Goethe
Institute, or via Zoom,
Sat 10 Feb, 2:30pm. The
flier is here.
18
STEM Teaching with Storytelling Workshop,
led by Barry
Stewart Mann. Sat 10 Feb, 4:30pm.
The flier is here.
19
Storytelling Workshop for Children, and
Storytelling by Children, hosted by Kalyan
Babu
Sat 10 Feb, 6:00pm. The
flier is here.
20
Storytelling: Indian Mythology Using Artforms,
organised by Rohini
Jayanti. Sun 11 Feb, 9:00am.
The flier is here.
21
Storytelling for Children, with Activities.
Hosted by Sridevi
Srinivasan. Sun 11 Feb, 4:30pm.
The flier is here.
22
Storytelling by Children, hosted by Kalyan
Babu
Sun 11 Feb, 6:00pm. The
flier is here.
23
Antagonists in Stories Workshop, led by Debjani
Bhaduri. Sun 11 Feb, 7:30pm. The
flier is here.
24
Environmental Storytelling Workshop, led by
Sree
Karuna. Fri 16 Feb, 4pm. The flier is here.
25
Storytelling Session. Fri 16 Feb, 7:00pm.
The flier is here.
26
Storytelling with a Personal Touch Workshop.
Sat 17 Feb, 11am. The flier is here.
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Storytelling Session. Sat 17 Feb, 2:30pm.
The flier is here.
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Story Circle of Love. Sat 17 Feb, 7:30pm.
The flier is here.
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Storytelling Session. Sun 18 Feb, 10:30am.
The flier is here.
30
Storytelling Session: One Story. Sun 18
Feb, 11:50am.
The flier is here.
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Storytelling for Children, with Activities. Sun 18 Feb, 5pm.
The flier is here.
32
Recovering After the Loss of a Loved One Workshop,
led by Sudha
Umashanker. Sun 18 Feb, 6pm.
The flier is here.
33
Intergenerational Workshop. Sun 18 Feb, 7:30pm.
Led by Cris
Anderson and Parker
Genné.
The flier is here.
34
Creating Songs that
Tell Stories Workshop.
Fri 23 Feb, 5:30pm.
MAST. Info is here.
The flier is here.
35
Storytelling Session. Fri 23 Feb,
7pm.
The flier is here.
36
Story Composition
Workshop, Fri 23 Feb, 9pm.
Led by Eric
Miller.
The flier is here.
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Storytelling for
Children, Sat 24 Feb, 9:30am.
Led by Aarti
Ashwin Kute. The flier is here.
38
Anti-Anger Workshop, Sat 24 Feb, Noon.
Led by Haritha
Kannan.
The flier is here.
39
Storytelling Session, at the Center for Counselling
and via Zoom.
Sat 24 Feb, 2:30pm. The flier is here.
40
Storytelling: Moon
Stories, Sat 24 Feb, 5pm.
Hosted by Kalyan Babu. The flier is here.
41
Storytelling: Stories
about Women, Sat 24 Feb, 7pm.
The flier is here.
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Story Composition
Workshop, Sat 24 Feb, 9pm.
Led by Eric
Miller.
The flier is here.
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Storytelling Session. Sun 25 Feb,
10:30am.
The flier is here.
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Panchatantra Stories
Workshop.
Sun 25 Feb, 4pm.
Led by Laxmi
Balaji.
The flier is here.
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Building Resilience
Workshop, led by Smita Rajan.
Sun 25 Feb, 5:30pm.
The flier is here.
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Storytelling Sessions in
Various Languages
Malayalam Storytelling. Sun 4th Feb, 4pm-6pm.
The flier is here.
Multiple Languages. Sat 10th Feb,
3pm-5pm.
The flier is here.
Tamil Storytelling. Sun 11th Feb, 3:30pm-6pm.
The flier is here.
Telugu Storytelling. Sat 17th Feb, 3pm-5pm.
The flier is here.
Kannada Storytelling. Sun 18th Feb, 4pm-6pm.
The flier is here.
Hindi Storytelling. Sat 24th Feb, 3pm-5pm.
The flier is here.
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