The Annual Chennai Storytelling festival is all set to run from Fri 4th to Sun 27th Feb 2022 on weekends and I will be participating for the second consecutive time this year. The festival is organised by Dr.Eric Miller, the director of World Storytelling Institute in Chennai. This year is the 10th anniversary of the CSF with 178 storytellers participating. You find information on the individual events and the tellers on the festival page here.
Festival theme
Ways Storytelling of Various Cultures, Religions, World-views, and Practices can Facilitate Growing, Maturing, Teaching and Learning, Playing, Creating, Transforming, and/or Healing in Individuals and Groups, and the Healing of the Environment.
This free festival will have 39 storytelling Workshops and one Open-mic Storytelling Session. There will be twelve Long-form and/or Thematic Storytelling sessions; one of which will be my session. There will be five performative sessions with song and dance and one healing circle. Apart from English language stories, there will also be six regional language sessions during the festival. Storytellers from Countries such as Spain, Israel, USA, Canada, UK, Argentina, Sweden, Croatia, Switzerland, Italy, Kenya, Nepal, and Sri Lanka apart from India will be participating. Find the CSF 2022 event poster here.
Donations are welcome for the event and you can donate from both within India (via Gpay) as well as internationally (via paypal).
Jewelry in Narratives at Chennai Storytelling festival 2022
I am doing a 30 minute session on Sunday, Feb 6th from 8:30PM to 9 PM IST as a part of the festival. I will be talking about the Jewelry in Narratives project, showing some jewelry and telling one or two stories from the same. This would be a different experience for me as I would be talking about the project outside of NYCJW 2021 for the first time. Please find my event poster above.
Last year, I told a fictional story called Bead by Bead for which I received positive feedback. I hope that this year I am able to do better.
CSF 2022 Dates and Times
This free for all festival happens on weekends. The timings are in IST (India time – UTC +05:30). To determine timings in your location, please see https://thetimezoneconverter.com. You can even attend the event a single day/weekend if you so choose to. But I am really hoping to see all of you for my event.
- Fridays, 5:30pm-10:30pm.
- Saturdays, 8:30am-3:30pm, and 5:30pm-10:30pm.
- Sundays, 8:30am-3:30pm, and 5:30pm-10:30pm.
To register: Send Dr. Eric Miller a mail at info@storytellinginstitute.org
I hope you find it interesting
Cheers
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