Kathalaya

geetastory56 (at) gmail.com

India

91-80-26689856

91-80-9845207073

#88, BHBCS Layout,2nd Cross, 3rd Main, BTM II Stage, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore-560076, India

Indian

Bangalore /Karnataka

The Mountain and the Bird - 40 minutes in English and Indian languages- Performed at

• Asian Storytelling Congress-Singapore,
• International Storytelling center festival -Tennesse-USA
• Cambridge storytelling festival and Wales storytelling Festival -2006
• Scottish Storytelling center-Scotland land,
• Japan,
• South Africa-(Child right's festival by Masimanyane-2002),
• World storytelling Museum -Gothenberg Sweden,(2009)
• Poland-(World Tales festival-2004)
• Ravensburg-Germany.

Folktales from India - chain stories, stories of identity, philosophy and fantasy.

Storytelling through puppets, masks and chitrakathas (picture stories). Know at least over 25 stories at a time.

All

Geeta Ramanujam is a storyteller, academician and journalist with a difference.She is the founder of Kathalaya and the Academy of storytelling in India. She has been an inspiration to many. She is an Ashoka Fellow and has been a teacher and librarian at schools in Bangalore for the past 28 years. In 1998, she founded Kathalaya: The House of Stories, to revive the ancient art of storytelling and to use it in schools as a cultural tool in education. She has travelled abroad to several countries to conduct workshops on storytelling. Since then, she has established storytelling as part of the curriculum in many schools in and has won many awards for her contributions towards child welfare and education.

ACHIEVEMENTS
Linking initiatives in Art Education between Karnataka and Western Sweden to set up a Story Academy at Vastra Gotland in Western Sweden since 2008 "Set up 152 Story learning centers at Karanjia and Keonjhar " Orissa for the Santhali Tribals - 2009.

"SETTING UP STORYLABS AND DEVELOPED STORYKITS.

Participated and presented papers in both national and international Storytelling events and conferences.

"ORGANISED AND CONCEPTUALISED THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL IN INDIA- 2005 & 2006 and have entered the Limca Book of Records for the same.

"TRAINED OVER 49,000 TEACHERS, ADULTS AND PROFESSIONALS TO USE STORYTELLING AS A COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATIONAL TOOL IN THE PAST TWENTY YEARS ACROSS THE WORLD.

"THE UNIVERSE IS MADE UP OF STORIES NOT ATOMS".

Coordinator in the International Storytelling Network (Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos).

STORYTELLING FOR EDUCATORS. RESOURCE BOOK FOR TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS (65 PAGES ALL COLOUR). 2004

THE WISE MONKEY AND OTHER ANIMALS TALES- PUFFIN- PENGUIN BOOKS, INDIA, 2002.

OVER 400 ARTICLES FOR NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES IN INDIA.

ENGLISH, AND OTHER INDIAN LANGUAGES.

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