Chennai Storytelling Festival 2025
Fri 31st Jan, to Sun 23rd Feb 2025
List of Presenters
Festival Homepage.
The
Festival's two themes are:
Storytelling
and
1) "Growing, Maturing, and
Transforming".
and
2) "Environment".
Considering ways the
place one is in may affect one's
thoughts
and mood.
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A) "Landscapes" –
For examples:
i) Tamil culture identifies five
landscapes,
each of which corresponds to a stage
in a married couple's relationship.
Including:
"Seashore" (relating to the
couple's
separation, because one partner might
be away on a sea journey), and
"Mountain Forests" (relating
to the couple's
joyful reunion).
ii) In Indian culture in general,
"Forests"
are often thought of as places for
meditation.
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B) Being –
i) In a City, in a Town, in the
Countryside,
at Sea, on an Island, away from the
Earth,
in a Dream, etc.
ii) Indoors or Outdoors
iii) Offline or Online.
List of Presenters (107)
(In alphabetical order.)
1) Ambika
Arunachalam (Chennai, India).
2) Ambujavalli
N. (Chennai, India).
3) Anagha
Prasad (Bangalore, India).
4)
Anuradha
Ragunandhan (Chennai, India).
5) Aparna
Athreya (Bangalore, India).
6)
Audra
Sisak (Washington State, USA).
7) Ayushi
Agrawal (Bangalore, India).
8) Banumathy
H. (Coimbatore, India).
9) Bhargavi
Kumaran (Bangalore, India).
10) Bruce
Kirchoff (North Carolina, USA).
11) Carol Birch (Connecticut, USA).
12) David
Heathfield (UK).
13) Debjani
Bhaduri (Chennai, India).
14) Denise
McCormack (New Jersey, USA).
15) Despina Ariou
(Greece).
16) Diewthy
Chandran (Kochi, India).
17) Divya
Anand (Chennai, India).
18) Divya
Vijayakumar (Chennai, India).
19) Ed
Lewis (California, USA).
20)
Elisa
Pearmain (Massachusetts, USA).
21) Elizabeta
Alkovic (Croatia).
22) Ellen
Tannenbaum (New York, USA).
23) Eric
Miller (Chennai, India).
24) Geetanjali
Shetty Kaul (Mumbai, India).
25) Gerald Fierst
(New Jersey, USA).
26) Haritha
Kannan (Chennai, India).
27) Heather
Forest (New York, USA).
28) Indira
Ananthakrishnan (Chennai, India).
29) Jaishree
Shethi (New Delhi, India).
30) Jamie
Brunson (Pennsylvania, USA).
31) Jasmina
Aleksandra Žiljak (Croatia).
32) Jenis
Lunkad (Raipur, India).
33) Jennifer
Ramsay (Spain).
34) Jim Brulé
(New York, USA).
35) Juliana Marín
Fryling (New Delhi).
36) June
Brown (Toronto, Canada).
37) Kalyan
Babu (Chennai, India).
38) Karin Wedra
(Germany).
39) Kousalya Pari
(Chennai, India).
40) Krishna
Chaitanya (Hyderabad,
India).
41) Lakshmi V.
(Bangalore, India).
42) Lalitha
Thilak (Chennai, India).
43) Lalitha
Sastry (Hyderabad, India).
44) Laura
Simms (New York, USA).
45) Lavanya
Prasad (Bangalore, India).
46) Lavanya
Srinivas (Chennai, India).
47) Les
Schaffer (Virginia, USA).
48) Lipika
Mohanty (Bhubaneshwar, India).
49) Magdalene
Jeyarathnam (Chennai, India).
50) C.
Mangalam Senthil (Coimbatore, India).
51) Manjiri Gogate
(Mumbai, India).
52) Maria LoBiondo
(New Jersey, USA).
53) Marijana
Mrvos (Croatia).
54) Marleny
(Colorado, USA).
55) MaryAnn
Paterniti (Vermont, USA).
56) Meenakshi
Devaraj (Chennai, India).
57) Meenu
Sivaramakrishnan (Bangalore, India).
58) Meera
Venkatesan (Bangalore, India).
59) Nageswara
Rao (Hyderabad, India).
60) Neena
Girish (Thiruvananthapuram, India).
61) Neeta Joshi
(Gurgaon, India).
62) Nicholas
Pawlowski (Minnesota, USA).
63) Nidhi Bagaria
(Mumbai, India).
64) Nilguen
Yalay (New Zealand).
65) Nyanna Tobin (Massachusetts, USA).
66) Parvathy
Eswaran (Bangalore, India).
67) Poonam
Joshy (Bangalore, India).
68) Pretigaya
Haran (Chennai, India).
69) Priyanka
Sagar Maheshwari (Noida, India).
70) Rachna Chowla
(Mumbai, India).
71) Racika
Raman (Ernakulam, India).
72) Ramendra
Kumar (Bangalore, India).
73) Ramya Iyer
(Bangalore, India).
74) Ramya Srinidhi
(Bangalore, India).
75) Rebecca
Lemaire (Spain).
76) Regina
Ress (New Mexico, USA).
77) Renu Mira
(Chennai, India).
78) Renu
Narayan (Chennai, India).
79) Rohini
Jayanti (Hyderabad).
80) Salome D.
(Mumbai, India).
81) Samatha
Sharma (Chennai, India).
82) Sarah Howell
(Italy).
83) Seema Karanth
(Bangalore, India).
84) Shalini
Bajaj (Mumbai, India).
85) Sharada
Sampathkumar (Bangalore, India).
86) Sheeja
Nair (Chennai, India).
87)
Sheettal
Rayathatha (Chennai, India).
88) Shilpa Mehta
(Jaipur, India).
89) Shraddha
Nigavekar (Pune, India).
90) Smita
Rajan (Mumbai, India).
91) Sonia
Bareja (Portugal).
92) Sowmya
Srinivasan (Coimbatore, India).
93) Sree
Karuna (Vishakapatnam, India).
94) Sridevi
Srinivasan (Chennai, India).
95) Srividya
Veeraraghavan (Chennai, India).
96) Stefania
Ganzini (Italy).
97) Sudha
Umashanker (Chennai, India).
98) Sudhir Pathak
(New Delhi, India).
99) Truptii
Sayani (Chennai, India).
100) Valentina
Ortiz Pandolfi (Mexico).
101) Vandana Rao
(Visakhapatnam, India).
102) Veena Parveen
Hasan (Guwahati, India).
103) Veena
Seethepalli (Hyderabad, India).
104) Vicky Ness
(California, USA).
105) Vidya Porselvi
(Chennai, India).
106) Vijaylakshmi
Nagaraj (Bangalore, India).
107) Vineetha C.
B. (Chennai, India).
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