Jan 28 2023 to Jan 28 2023 5:30 p.m.

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Price: Free

Where

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

716, Chinmaya Mission Hospital Road, First Stage, Indiranagar, Bengaluru 560038

Special Instructions

Panel Discussion: The Story of Storytellers' Story | Participants: Geeta Ramanujam, Roopa Pai and Vikram Sridhar with Shinie Antony | 6.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m.

Event Description

The Story of Storytellers an evening of Storytelling Performance and Panel Discussion by well known Storytellers Geeta Ramanujam, Roopa Pai and Vikram Sridhar followed by a Panel Discussion with Shinie Antony.

Roopa Pai is one of India’s best-known writers for children. She has written over 25 books, ranging from picture books to chapter books and fiction to non-fiction, on themes as varied as sci-fi fantasy, popular science, maths, history, economics, Indian philosophy, life skills, and medicine. Many of her books are bestsellers and are enjoyed as much by adults as by children.

Shinie Antony has written short-story books Barefoot and Pregnant, The Orphanage For Words, and novels The Girl Who Couldn't Love and When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied. She has compiled the anthologies Why We Don’t Talk, An Unsuitable Woman and Boo. Co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, her story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia prize in 2002.

Geeta Ramanujam wears many hats. Besides being an internationally renowned storyteller, Geeta is a Master Trainer, Educator Academician, Author and Administrator. She is the pioneer of the storytelling evolution in India. She is the Executive Director and Founder of Kathalaya Trust and Kathalaya’s International Academy of Storytelling, which completes 25 years of its legacy this year

Vikram Sridhar is a Performance Storyteller & Theatre Practitioner combining his various interests and work over 20+ years in Theatre, Conservation and Social Work. His stories, performances and workshops for children and adults are rooted in Heritage, Ecology and Folklore, deeply inspired from various communities of the soil. Based in Chennai and Bangalore, he has travelled the country extensively