Chennai Storytelling Festival 2026

                     14th Annual Edition,

               Fri 6 Feb, to Sun 15 March.

                   All Zoom and all Free.

                                         Festival Homepage.

                    Phone/Whatsapp: +91 98403 94282

               The Zoom link for the below and all other

              English-language sessions of CSF 2026 is

                      https://zoom.us/j/7849176338

                 If you might like to receive emails about

           CSF 2026, please send a request via email to

                     info@storytellinginstitute.org

              The theme of the Festival is Storytelling and

                 Growing, Maturing, and Transforming.

           Storytelling for Adults (via Zoom)

                              (India timings)

Weekend 1

Fri 6 Feb

6:00pm-8:00, Storytelling for Adults (1 of 14).

1) 6:00, Naveed Moeed (North Carolina)

     (7:30am USA Eastern time).

2) 6:20, Joanie Calem (Ohio)

     (7:50am USA Eastern time).      

3) 6:40, Priyanka Sagar Maheshwari (Noida).

4) 7:00, Parvathy Eswaran (Coimbatore).

5) 7:20, Vicky Ness (California)

     (5:50am USA Pacific time).

Sat 7 Feb                      

2:00pm-4:00, Storytelling for Adults (2 of 14).

1) 2:00, Ina Dafinescu (Romania)

     (10:30am Romania time).

2) 2:20, Divya Anand (Chennai).

3) 2:40, Seema Karanth (Bangalore).

4) 3:00, Sowmya Srinivasan (Coimbatore).

5) 3:20, Hema Subramanian (Mumbai).

Sun 8 Feb                     

1) 10:00, Viveca Deanes (Texas)

     (Sat 7 Feb, 10:30pm Texas time).

2) 10:30, Ed Lewis (California)

     (Sat 7 Feb, 9:00pm California time).

3) 10:50, Lipika Mohanty (Bhubaneswar).

4) 11:10, Gayathri Sastry (Nellore).

5) 11:30, Meenakshi Addepalli (Bhopal).

6) 11:50, Sudha Umashanker (Chennai).

2:00pm-3:00, KathaKrafters (Anagha Prasad (Bangalore), Geetha Subramanian (Coimbatore), Meera Venkatesan (Bangalore), and Parvathy Eswaran (Bangalore) ), Storytelling.

Weekend 2

Fri 13 Feb

6:00pm-8:00, Storytelling for Adults (4 of 14).

1) 6:00, Usha Venkatraman (Mumbai).

2) 6:20, Dennis Corcoran (Texas)

     (6:50am Texas time).

3) 6:40, Alistair Martin (Hamilton)

     (8:10am Eastern Canada time).

4) 7:00, Sara Damewood (South Carolina)

     (8:30am Eastern USA time).

5) 7:20, Selina Eisenberg (Côte Saint-Luc, Canada)

     (8:50am Canada Eastern time).

Sat 14 Feb        

2:00pm-4:00, Storytelling for Adults (5 of 14).

1) 2:00, Venkat Ramakrishnan (Bangalore).

2) 2:20, Adina Popa (Romania)

     (10:50am Romania time).

3) 2:40, Stella Tsingou (Greece)

     (11:10am Greece time).

4) 3:00, Sujaya Sundaram (Bangalore).

5) 3:20, Shaheen Maniiar (Pune).

Sun 15 Feb                   

1) 10:30, Roopa Mohan (California)

     (Sat 14 Feb, 9:00pm California time).

2) 10:50, Debjani Bhaduri (Chennai).

3) 11:10, Vrushali Barbare (Pune).

4) 11:30, Renu Narayan (Chennai).

5) 11:50, Deepa Ahuja Ramani (Bangalore).

Weekend 3

Fri 20 Feb         

6:00pm-8:00, Storytelling for Adults (7 of 14).

1) 6:00, Dawood Vaid (Mumbai).

2) 6:20, Maria LoBiondo (New Jersey)

     (7:50am USA Eastern time).

3) 6:40, Denise McCormack (New Jersey)

     (8:10am USA Eastern time).

5) 7:00, Oro Librowicz (Montreal)

     (8:30am Canada Eastern time).

4) 7:20, Dada Maheshvarananda (North Carolina)

     (8:50am USA Eastern time).

Sat 21 Feb        

2:00pm-4:00, Storytelling for Adults (8 of 14).

1) 2:00, Shilpa Mehta (Jaipur).

2) 2:20, Shivani Bhatnagar (Pune).

3) 2:40, Meenu Sivaramakrishnan (Bangalore).

4) 3:00, Geethanjali Javid (Chennai).

5) 3:20, Nivedita Sinha (Jamshedpur).

7:30-9:00, Laura Simms (New York), Storytelling and Conversation: "Sedna (Inuit), The Juniper Tree (Germany), and the Nature of Mythic Images" (9:00am USA Eastern time).

Sun 22 Feb

10:00am-12:30pm, Storytelling for Adults (9 of 14).    

1) 10:00, Karen Golden (California)

     (Sat 21 Feb, 8:30pm California time).

2) 10:30, Banumathy H. (Coimbatore).

3) 10:50, Shraddha Nigavekar (Pune).

4) 11:10, Vasugi Ram Manohar (Chennai).

5) 11:30, Veena Parveen Hasan (Guwahati).

6) 11:50, Lavanya Prasad (Bangalore).                                                                                                                   

Weekend 4

Fri 27 Feb

6:00pm-8:00, Storytelling for Adults (10 of 14).

1) 6:00, Momo Heiss (Germany)

     (1:30pm Germany time).

2) 6:20, Lynette Ford (Ohio)

     (7:50am USA Eastern time).

3) 6:40, Rishi Nixon (Baltimore)

     (8:10am USA Eastern time).

4) 7:00, Michael Williams (Hamilton)

     (8:30am Eastern Canada time)

5) 7:20, Howard Lieberman (Minnesota)

     (7:50am Minnesota time).

Sat 28 Feb                    

2:00pm-4:00, Storytelling for Adults (11 of 14).

1) 2:00, Arthi Mangalam (Chennai).

2) 2:20, Thankam Kuttikat (Bangalore).

3) 2:40, Nidhi Bagaria (Mumbai).

4) 3:00, Haritha Kannan (Chennai).

5) 3:20, Lalitha Thilak (Chennai).

Sun 1 March

10:00am-12:30pm, Storytelling for Adults (12 of 14).  

1) 10:00, Regina Ress (New Mexico)

     (Sat 28 Feb, 9:30pm New Mexico time).

2) 10:30, Sharada Sampathkumar (Bangalore).

3) 10:50, Ramya Iyer (Bangalore).

4) 11:10, Shalini Bajaj (Mumbai).

5) 11:30, Sudhir Pathak (New Delhi).

6) 11:50, Nageswara Rao (Hyderabad).                              

6:00-7:30, Springboard Tales (Debjani Bhaduri (Chennai), Pretigaya Haran (Chennai) Ambujavalli N. (Chennai), Banumathi H. (Coimbatore), Kanchan (Chennai) ), Storytelling.

Weekend 5

Fri 6 March                   

6:00pm-8:00, Storytelling for Adults (13 of 14).

1) 6:00, Stefania Ganzini (Italy)

     (1:30pm Italy time).

2) 6:20, Bertha Fernandes (Illinois)

     (6:50am Illinois time).

3) 6:40, Carol McCormick (Wisconsin)

     (7:10am Wisconsin time).

4) 7:00, Goldie Spencer (Toronto)

     (8:30am Canada Eastern time).

5) 7:20, Sarah Addison (New Mexico)

     (6:50am New Mexico time).

Sat 7 March      

2:00pm-4:00, Storytelling for Adults (14 of 14).

1) 2:00, Vineetha Babu (Chennai).

2) 2:20, Ambujavalli N. (Chennai).

3) 2:40, Sree Karuna (Visakhapatnam).

4) 3:00, Vasanthi Ranganathan (Chennai).

5) 3:20, Vandana Sharma (Mumbai).

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