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 Children (via Zoom)

                            (India timings)

Weekend 1

Sat 7 Feb                      

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (1 of 10).

1) 4:00, Soorya Gayathri Prasad (Chennai).    

2) 4:20, Trisha Tibrewala (Bangalore).

3) 4:40, Shivani Bhatnagar (Pune).

4) 5:00, Vineetha Babu (Chennai).

5) 5:20, Neena Girish (Thiruvananthapuram).

Sun 8 Feb                     

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (2 of 10).

1) 4:00, Vanishree Venugopal (Chennai).

2) 4:20, Sharada Sampathkumar(Bangalore).

3) 4:40, Jaishree Sethi (New Delhi).

4) 5:00, Lalitha Thilak (Chennai).

5) 5:20, Anagha Prasad and Parvathy Eswaran (Coimbatore).

Weekend 2

Sat 14 Feb                    

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (3 of 10).

1) 4:00, Viveca Deanes (Texas) (4:30am Texas time).

2) 4:20, Venkat Ramakrishnan (Bangalore).

3) 4:40, Swati Jain (New Delhi).

4) 5:00, C. Mangalam Senthil (Coimbatore).

5) 5:20, Priyanka Sagar Maheshwari (Noida).

Sun 15 Feb                   

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (4 of 10).

1) 4:00, Renuka Bharath (Chennai).

2) 4:20, Nidhi Bagaria (Mumbai).

3) 4:40, Lakshmi Harika (Chennai).

4) 5:00, Gheorghiu Geanina Ionela (Romania) (1:10pm Romania time).

5) 5:20, Padmapriya Suresh (Chennai).

Weekend 3

Sat 21 Feb                    

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (5 of 10).

1) 4:00, Haritha Kannan (Chennai).

2) 4:20, Mona Ghai (Bhopal).

3) 4:40, Tripat Ratra (Ahmedabad).

4) 5:00, Sheettal Rayathatha (Chennai).

5) 5:20, Deepa Ahuja Ramani (Bangalore),

Neena Girish (Thiruvananthapuram), and

Veena Parveen Hasan (Guwahati).

Sun 22 Feb                   

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (6 of 10).

1) 4:00, Ellen Tannenbaum (New York) (5:30am USA Eastern time).

2) 4:20, Anjana Parikh (Bangalore).

3) 4:40, Ana Proscan (Romania) (1:10pm Romania time).

4) 5:00, Lyla Paladugu (Hyderabad).

5) 5:20, Joanie Calem (Ohio) (6:50am USA Eastern time).

Weekend 4

Sat 28 Feb                    

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (7 of 10).

1) 4:00, Ramya Arivazhagan (Chennai).

2) 4:20, Prabaavaty V. (Chennai).

3) 4:40, Raji Reddy (Bangalore).

4) 5:00, Selina Eisenberg (Côte Saint-Luc, Canada) (6:30am Canada Eastern time).

5) 5:20, Teri Lott (Ohio) (6:50am USA Eastern time).

Sun 1 March                                         

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (8 of 10).

1) 4:00, Shiraz Saini (Chandigarh).

2) 4:20, Jay Miller (Budapest) (11:50am Budapest time).

3) 4:40, Sita Srinivas (Visakhapatnam).

4) 5:00, Gayathri Sastry (Nellore).

5) 5:20, Manisha Bhise (Mumbai).

Weekend 5

Sat 7 March                  

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (9 of 10).

1) 4:00, Latha Ananth (Chennai).               

2) 4:20, Umayal Subramaniam (Thanjavur).

3) 4:40, Sharanya Sriram (Pune).

4) 5:00, Leena Kulkarni (Pune).     

5) 5:20, Ramya Srinidhi (Bangalore).

Sun 8 March

4:00pm-6:00, Storytelling for Children (10 of 10).

Storytellers to be announced.

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