Kahaani: India's first festival of Story Telling at Pathways School, Sector 100, Noida > 11am-7pm on 17th & 18th November 2012

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Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Pathways Noida, Sector 100, Noida - 201301
Venue Info : www.pathways.in | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Jasola(Violet Line)'

Event Details : Kahaani: India's first festival of Story Telling.
The Kahaani Festival aims to enchant and empower audiences as it explores a multitude of narratives from India and around the world! Come become a part of the creative process that evolves when story tellers animate their fears, beliefs, dreams and imaginations alongside listeners of all ages. Stories will be told through puppetry, poetry, music, written and oral traditions of all kinds. Audiences will be given the opportunity to create and share their stories and explore the various tools of story-telling; narration, writing, animation and traditional forms of illustration. Personal stories will be explored and shared through festival workshops.
An opportunity for children to express, find their voice, explore, play and dance with performers providing a unique immersive experience, where the audience can become part of this visually beautiful journey.
Kahaani festival is presented by Teamwork Productions in association with Pathways
School and Pratham Books.

Says Sanjoy Roy of Teamwork Productions, “ Kahani festival has been created as a platform to preserve and explore our oral traditions. In recent times story tellers in India including Danish and M Farooqui have helped restore the lost tradition of dastangoi. Story tellers can transport you in to other worlds and in association with Pratham Books we hope to reach young people in Government and private schools. Our relationship with Virtuous retail will allow us to access a large number of cities beginning with Delhi and Surat. In future years we hope to bring story tellers from
across the world including Gcina Mschlope, Lebo Matshile, Arthur Flowers, Cat Wetherskill, Jan Blake among others”.

Meet the Story-Tellers
Meet famous story tellers, Illustrators and performers coming from all across to enchant
audience! Some of the storytellers and illustrators at Kahaani 2012 include Anita Mani, Prayag Shukla, Anupa Lal, Manisha Chaudhry, Smita Vats, Dr. Varsha Das, Atanu Roy, Subhadra Sen Gupta, Bulbul Sharma and Sachin George Sebastian.

ANITA MANI is the Founder-Editor of Child Friendly News, a fortnightly newspaper for young minds in a style and format that can grip their attention. Her skills have been built over a 15 year career spanning mainstream print media, investment banking, consulting and running the operations of a technology start-up. When possible, Anita pursues photography and bird-watching.

ANUPA LAL has written more than 20 books for children. These include picture books, poetry books, a retelling of the Ramayana, translations of several short stories by Munshi Premchand and his last novel "Godan". Mrs. Lal enjoys interacting with children and has visited many schools in and around Delhi for storytelling sessions.

PRAYAG SHUKLA is a poet, art critic, fiction and children’s story writer. He has done many translations of Bengali poets into Hindi including Rabindranath Tagore’s Geetanjali. Presently, he is the Editor of the Hindi journal of the National School of Drama, Rang Prasang. Prayag has toured extensively and won a number of awards.

Dr. VARSHA DAS is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, radio plays and books for children. Being born and brought up in the family of freedom fighters in Mumbai she imbibed Gandhian values during her childhood. To her credit are a number of translations and adaptations. She has been an art-critic for the past 45 years, and continues to write an art column in Hindi for Jansatta since 2003.
SMITA VATS is the Founder-Director of ITIHAAS, an educational trust based in Delhi, active in the area of Heritage Education, committed towards bringing children closer to their heritage. She has had a career in documentary film making and journalism for eighteen years. Smita also worked as a voice artist at the All India Radio during her school years and was initiated into theatre at the age of eight.

WORKSHOPS
ATANU ROY is a multi award winning illustrator of over a hundred children’s books, games and educational aids. He has done corporate and editorial design, artwork, illustration and editorial cartoons, experimental drawing and painting in various media. Atanu has a keen interest in photography and computer graphics. His design studio ArtGym is in New Delhi.
Workshop Type: Illustrations
Age Group: All age

BULBUL SHARMA is a painter and writer. Her works are in the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lalit Kala Akademi as well as in private collections in India, UK, USA, Japan and France. Her books have been translated into Italian, French and Finnish. She has been conducting art and story-telling workshops for special needs children for the last fifteen years.
Workshop Type: Story -Painting
Age Group: 7-12

MANISHA CHAUDHRY is a writer, translator, editor and publisher, not necessarily in that order! She works in English and Hindi and is enchanted by both languages. She hopes to convey that enchantment to children so that they enjoy stories in many languages. Manisha works with Pratham Books, a multilingual children's publisher.
Workshop Type: Creative Writing
Age Group: 9-12

NATHOO LAL SOLANKI has been playing the Nagada for several years now performing all over India, and has also showcased his talent at numerous festivals all over the world. He has performed with artists such as Prem Joshua, Indian Ocean, Susheela Raman, Shye Ben Tzur, amongst many others. He now teaches the Nagada to people of all ages from all around the world at his own school in Pushkar, Rajasthan.
Workshop Type: Nagada (Percussion) Introduction
Age Group: All ages

SACHIN GEORGE SEBASTIAN is an alumni of National Institute of Design and a self taught Paper engineer, creating pop up art which explores both visual and structural form. He is one of the finest artists in India working in this field. Sachin is currently based in Delhi, practicing visual arts.
Workshop Type: Kirigami (a varition of origami) and introduction to Pop-up books
Age Group: All ages

SUBHADRA SEN GUPTA is a writer and has written over twenty five books for children and a few for adults. She enjoys writing on history, travel and mythology. Her fiction includes historical fiction, mysteries and adventures, occasional ghosts, bad jokes and lots of food. She also writes scripts for comics’ strips.
Workshop Type: Make your own Comic Strip!
Age Group: All ages

Performers and performances: Ishara Puppet Theatre - Dadi Pudumjee (Puppet), Katkatha– Anurupa Roy( Puppet), Akaar- Puran Bhatt( Traditional Puppets), Rene Singh (Music), , SALTBUSH (Australia), A Midsummer Night’s Dream by WIDE AISLE PRODUCTIONS(Theatre).

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