* Workshops – Limited to 30 Children. On first come basis.
Timbuktoo Publishing*
Writing your first song. With words, pen and a tune to sing along!
In this workshop with Timbuktoo Publishing, children will be given a chorus line and word prompts to write a song featuring the prompts and the chorus. After writing a few stanzas, the kids will set their song to popular tunes with guitar accompaniment and sing them. Video or audio recordings will be taken of this first step to song writing.
Aparna Raman
Bio
A creative professional in Advertising and Design , Aparna Raman is the Founder of Timbuktoo Publishing , a global platform for published young authors.
Prasanna Timothy
Bio
Prasanna Timothy is an accomplished old-Bangalore musician – playing and teaching the guitar, drums and keyboard.
Duckbill *
Magic & Mystery: A Storywriting Workshop
Create your own magical things and write a mystery story with authors Asha Nehemiah and Pavithra Sankaran.
Asha Nehemiah
Bio
Author of Trouble with Magic , Asha writes books for children from 3-12. where wonderfully funny characters get into crazy adventures.
Pavithra Sankaran
Bio
Author of Something Fishy , Pavithra grew up a gluttonous reader and, according to people who have to live with her, she continues to be one.
Pratham Books
The frog that climbed over the mountain!
Take an armchair trip to the Western Ghats with Kartik Shanker, author of ‘The Adventures of Philautus Frog’, published by Pratham Books. Herpetologist Vijay gives an audio-visual treat on tree frogs, while Smitha Shivaswamy, an illustrator shows you how to do visual journaling. A wildly entertaining afternoon for all ages.
Kartik Shanker
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Kartik Shanker is a faculty at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,and loves diving at reefs or looking for turtles.
Vijay
Bio
Vijay enjoys photography and dreams of being a cartographer! has done a PhD in the mesmerizing forests of the Western Ghats
Smitha Shivaswamy
Bio
Smitha Shivaswamy and George Supreeth, are the co- founders of Penciljam, a citizen arts community that has been meeting every Sunday to draw, for over 15 yrs. Their community is open to all ages. Please see more on our website here: https://penciljam.com/main/
Tulika Publishers *
Reading Pictures, Painting Stories
Journey with illustrator Soumya Menon as she leads you into an enchanting world with all kinds of animals and birds! Dabble with art and craft and feature a creature of your own.
Soumya Menon
Bio
Soumya Menon is an illustrator, comic book artist and animation filmmaker.
Bookalore
Bookalore’s Puppet Party
Want to say hello to a rhino or go ha-ha with a dino? Want to flitter-flutter with a butterfly or go on an adventure to find the sun in the sky? You never know what will happen when author-storyteller Vijaylakshmi Nagaraj and her puppets take stage… Come and find out!
PLUS: A creative writing session where you will learn to write a story and set your imagination free!
Vijayalakshmi Nagaraj
Bio
Vijaylakshmi Nagaraj, a founder-member of Bookalore is an educational consultant, author and storyteller.
Bookalore
Bookalore’s Doodle Dhamaka
Want to draw as easily as you can say eeny, meeny, miny, mo? Or make a quick caricature of people going ha-ha-ho-ho? Join illustrator-art director Greystroke as he shows you how to draw people, animals, cartoons and caricatures – all in a few easy-peasy steps!
PLUS: Get arty on a giant doodle wall, show off your newly acquired drawing skills and have fun unlimited!
Shyam Madhavan Sarada
Bio
Greystroke aka Shyam Madhavan Sarada a founder-member of Bookalore is a writer, illustrator, cartoonist and art director.
Amar Chitra Katha
The Amar Chitra Katha Quiz
The ten avatars of Vishnu or the Indian freedom struggle? Vishnu Sharma’s Panchatantra or the stories of Kabir and Mira?
What’s your area of expertise? Find out with the ultimate Amar Chitra Katha Quiz!
Reena I Puri
Bio
Reena I. Puri is the executive editor of Amar Chitra Katha. She has spent the last 26 years writing
and editing comics for children. She believes that the tradition of story-telling is an integral part of
human development and should be preserved and protected, particularly for children.
Reena has also worked as a journalist, a school-teacher and a radio jockey. Her special areas of
interest include the environment, conservation and the protection of community animals.
Queries
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Makkala Koota Coordinator
Vikram Sridhar
Bio
Vikram Sridhar is a performance storyteller and theatre practitioner based in Bangalore. He has been working with a number of theatre groups across India for about a decade now is the co-founder Tahatto , a Bangalore-based theatre group. Tahatto performs regularly in Banagalore and in festivals across India. He has volunteered and worked with different organisations in the conservation space and also consults and works with organisations in the social sector. He combines the three in his storytelling to make a difference. Around the Story Tree is his initiative to reach out to children and adults from different backgrounds through storytelling, using stories and folk tales in a contemporary form as a strong medium for conservation to connect listeners to their environment. To know more about his work, see facebook.com/AroundTheStoryTree