Date: 26th January 2023, Thursday
Time: 4 – 5.30 PM
Categories: Workshop
Location: Varaprada Shri Devagiri Devasthanam, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore
Contact: gudiya.sambhrama@gmail.com
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Registration: Compulsory.
Fee: It’s a free workshop

About the Event:
This workshop on Katha is going to be led by Ms Deepa Kiran. Founder of Story Arts Foundation. International storyteller, national award-winning Educationalist, TEDx Speaker, writer, Actor, Film-maker and Writer. Through her work she enjoys connecting with children, educators and parents. She has reached over 75,000 educators globally on teaching with stories.
In her performances, training, and talks, she weaves in unique musical elements and different languages to create a rich, inviting, and memorable experience for everyone.

“Storytelling is as old as civilization itself. The need to tell and listen to stories is essential to human existence for we are narrative beings. Story-telling sessions bring people together and can bridge differences. They go beyond linguistic barriers and obliterate age divides. Stories engage, entertain and stimulate imagination and creativity. Stories from our Parampara bring forward not just legends but an entire heritage and culture carrying forward tradition, values and knowledge, and giving us a connection to our ancestry.
The tradition of storytelling in India dates back to the Vedic age and further developed during the Pauranic period. There were professional storytellers-Kathakaars, who wandered from place to place narrating fabulous stories from other kingdoms and the epics too.
They served in temples and palaces later to continue the tradition of oral storytelling. As the wheel of time turned, story-telling that was an oral tradition with verbal communication and music grew to include paintings, theatre and dance. Thus diverse and distinctive storytelling traditions evolved in different parts of India.
We are surrounded by stories. Every Indian symbol has a story to tell, and when we look around and observe, the rangoli patterns in front of homes, the mango leaves strung across doors, the head-dresses that people wear, the fabric of their clothes; everything has a story to tell.
And every story carries with it a bit of our culture, tradition, history, and living values. When we are aware and observant, sensitive and alert, we begin to learn all about our Parampara. And that is a reward by itself!”

About the Speaker

Ms Deepa Kiran
Founder of Story Arts Foundation. International storyteller, national award-winning Educationalist, TEDx Speaker, writer, Actor, Film-maker and Writer.
Through her work she enjoys connecting with children, educators and parents. She has reached over 75,000 educators globally on teaching with stories. In her performances, training, and talks, she weaves in unique musical elements and different languages to create a rich, inviting, and memorable experience for everyone.
Deepa’s special focus is development of English language, empathy, resilience and critical thinking in multi-cultural, multilingual classrooms. She has received national awards for her educational videos and research. An international award for acting in cinema. She is currently pursuing her PhD from IIT Madras in Storytelling and Language Teaching. She has recently launched her story-based education app Deepa’s Storycation.