Children|Literature|Fun or C|L|F has in store plenty of activities for kids of all ages and parents are most welcome to join and watch!
Note: Please register for the C|L|F sessions using the form provided on this page.
Day 1 | Sat | Dec 14
| #blrlitfest Venues | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wild Wonders Ages 4+ | Ocean Odyssey Ages 8+ | Mystic Valley Ages 12+ |
| 10:15 am Puppets and Stories with Gruffalo Shreedevi Sunil | ||
| 11:00 am Will Goondi Come Home? Adithi Rao | 11:00 am Making of Detective Nemma: How to Create a Comic Strip Sanid Asif Ali and Pranav Holla | 11:00 am The Henna Start-up Andaleeb Wajid |
| 11:30 am Into the Wild Vaishnavi Giri | 11:30 am Chill Skills Factory: Building Your Happy Place Gokul Ratakonda | 11:30 am From Memories to Graphic Memoir Alaka Rajan Skinner |
| 12 noon A Tale of Friendship and Discovery ಕೀಟಗಳ ಸ್ನೇಹದ ರಹಸ್ಯ ಕಥೆ Anupama K Benachinamardi | 12 noon My World: A Creative Writing Workshop Ritu Ailani | 12 noon Don't Juggle Books! Gunjan Saraf |
| 12:30 pm Drip Drip Lick Lick Meow Meow Riddhi Maniar Doda | 12:30 pm Stories through Silhouettes Tanmay Acharya | 12:30 pm From Zero to Hero: Build Your Own Super Adventure Arunava Sinha |
| 1:00 pm Can you Draw Love? Alankrita Amaya | 1:00 pm Puzzle Time with Egghead Pika Nani | 1:00 pm And Over Or: Standup Comedy and You Arun Sriram |
| 1:30 pm Forest Colors Padmashree Murali | 1:30 pm Dear World Sahitya Rani | 1:30 pm Mughal Emperors and their Journeys Ashwitha Jayakumar |
| 2:00 pm Create a Potluck Lunch! Vibha Surya | 2:00 pm Shiva and Jalandhar Kshitish Padhy | 2:00 pm Chavittu Nadakam and Comics Asha Theres, Jeevanath Viswanath |
| 2:30 pm Whispers of Wonder: Timeless Tales for Little Ones Ashok Nagpal, Bhagirathi Manacha | 2:30 pm Birds, Fun and Games: A Salim Ali Exploration Kavya Srinivasan | 2:30 pm Drama in Action: Theatre Games to Boost Your Creativity Mansee Shah |
| 3:00 pm Lakshmi's Little Bird Sharanya Kunnath | 3:00 pm The Magical Everything Jenny Pinto | 3:00 pm A Snakeman Tells Hiss Story Romulus Whitaker and Janaki Lenin |
| 3:30 pm A Tale Of Tails Ramendra Kumar | 3:30 pm Roots and Shoots: Family Trees and Storytelling for Young Explorers Anupama Purohit, Devina | 3:30 pm The Forestborns Vardhini Amin |
| 4:00 pm Kathegala Thorana ಕಥೆಗಳ ತೋರಣ Shalini Murthy | 4:00 pm A Song From Where I Live Smrithi Devakumar | 4:00 pm Don't Climb on the Bullock Cart Arti Jain |
| 4:30 pm Rehabilitating Urban Wildlife Subiksha Venkatesh | 4:30 pm Can you Kick it Like Rukku? Sanjana Ganesh | 4:30 pm How to Win an Election: Navigating School Elections Menaka Raman |
| 5:00 pm Paint-a-Tale Sarayu Sivanandam, Varnika Sampath Kumar | 5:00 pm Write, Seal, Deliver: Letters to Express Yourself Priya Muthukumar | 5:00 pm Travelling Treasures: 100 Stories of How Things Came to India Mala Kumar |
| 5:45 pm An Evening of Magic Inesh Shenoy, Ishaan Shenoy | ||
| – All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. – All sessions are at the venue only and there will be no live streaming. Video recordings will be available on the Festival’s YouTube channel at a later date. | ||
Day 2 | Sun | Dec 15
| #blrlitfest Venues | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wild Wonders Ages 4+ | Ocean Odyssey Ages 8+ | Mystic Valley Ages 12+ |
| 10:15 am Gopi's Day Out Sudha Murty with Reena I Puri | ||
| 11:00 am Nila Nila: Learn through Music and Art Gurupriya Atreya | 11:00 am Bhasmasura in the Age of AI Devaki Bhujang Gajare | 11:00 am Malabar, Monuments and Museums Pradeep Chakravarthy |
| 11:30 am My Mind’s Party Priya Somani | 11:30 am Bipathu and a Very Big Dream Anita Nair | 11:30 am What do you Know about Kautilya’s Arthashastra? Deepa Agarwal |
| 12 noon Double Trouble, Puppy Trouble Bijal Vachharajani, Rajiv Eipe | 12 noon Meet my Wild Friends: The Polar Bear, Orangutan and Others Sarath Champati | 12 noon Sculpted Stones and Mysteries Ashwin Prabhu |
| 12:30 pm Moonlight and the Sea Kartik Shanker, Vidisha Kulkarni | 12:30 pm Karukku Norukku Time Saritha Rao | 12:30 pm Silence and Solitude, Cacophony and Community: Discovering yourself through Akela Ruchi Shah |
| 1:00 pm I am (not) Here: Discovering Nature Around You Karunya Baskar | 1:00 pm Playing with the Magical Elves of the English Language Rachna Chhabria | 1:00 pm The Bengaluru Quiz Roopa Pai |
| 1:30 pm Monkeying Around Aswana Mathew, Ranjini Rao | 1:30 pm Muniya's Quest: Quirky Inventions with Muniya and her Friends Mandira Shah, Virginia Rodrigues | 1:30 pm Object Detectives! Devika Cariapa |
| 2:00 pm I Won't Wash My Hair Aparna Kapur | 2:00 pm If Wishes were Butterflies Canato Jimo | 2:00 pm Mini Marvels: Flash Fiction for Kids Shalaka Kulkarni |
| 2:30 pm A Baby Turns 20 Radhika Chadha | 2:30 pm The Living Museum Chetana Purushotham, Samuel John | 2:30 pm Clowning Time Rajesh, Swetha Desai |
| 3:00 pm Draw with Baby Bahadur Priya Kuriyan | 3:00 pm Character Design: Drawing Monsters George Supreeth, Smitha Shivaswamy | 3:00 pm Walk the Sky: Discover the Secrets of the Rainforest Canopy Jaya Peter, Soubadra Devy |
| 3:30 pm From Sketch to Story: Designing Cool Characters Urvashi Dubey | 3:30 pm Tantri the Mantri in 'True Friends' Rituja Sawant | 3:30 pm What's News Today?: Journalism for Young Readers Kavya Christopher |
| 4:00 pm Stories the Villupaatu way Lavanya Prasad | 4:00 pm Raman and Chandrasekhar Lighting Up the Stars: A Guessing Game Arundhati Venkatesh | 4:00 pm Bhasha: A Quiz on the Languages of India Karthik Venkatesh |
| 4:30 pm My Nest is the Best Niyatee Sharma | 4:30 pm Hastha and Storytelling Indu Santhosh | 4:30 pm Flight School 101: What it Takes to be a Pilot Saarah Hameed Ahmed |
| 5:00 pm Mudra Magic Mili Rajesh, Simrun Kaushik | 5:00 pm The Malli Show Jeeva Raghunath | 5:00 pm Go Wild Aparna Kapur, Bijal Vachharajani, Kartik Shanker, Priya Kuriyan, Rajiv Eipe, Ravikant Kisana |
| 5:45 pm Petu Pumpkin - Freedom Fighter: A Theatrical Performance Kirtana Kumar's Theatre Lab (Youth) | ||
| – All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. – All sessions are at the venue only and there will be no live streaming. Video recordings will be available on the Festival’s YouTube channel at a later date. | ||
Workshop
From Lithuania to India: Creating Unique Characters through Art and Storytelling
Aušra Kiudulaitė, Evelina Daciūte
Artist Aušra will introduce the magic of collage, helping the children use colors and textures to create their own visual stories, while Evelina will guide them in writing and shaping their own narratives. Through this interactive experience, we aim to show that creativity knows no borders and that imagination can unite us all.
Aušra Kiudulaitė
Bio
Aušra Kiudulaitė was born in 1978 in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has a master degree from Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) and is now working as a freelance illustrator and runs creative workshops for children as well as students and art professionals. Aušra actively participates in international exhibitions. festivals and book fairs.
In 2016 her first picture book Happiness is a Fox was published which became a national phenomenon and also gained international attention when it was published by Thames and Hudson in the UK. The book received many awards including The Best Book of the Year Award in 2017 in Lithuania, The Most Beautiful Book of the Year by LBBY in 2016.
Aušra has been selected for the LBBY Honour list in 2018 and 2023.
Evelina Daciūtė
Bio
Evelina Daciūte is an author of books for children, was born in Vilnius in 1975. She debuted in children’s literature in 2014 with the book Teddy Bear Adventures, Lupine Labyrinth which is now a series of titles. In 2015 “The Elephants Went Visiting was published and awarded as the Most Beautiful Book in the Book Art Competition. In 2016 the book received the Book of the Year Award for the Youngest Readers by IBBY Lithuania. The most recognized and awarded book by Evelina Dacie is Happiness is a Fox/ The Fox on the Swing, which was published in 2016 in Lithuania, in 2018 in the UK and USA.
Queries
For any C|L|F related queries please call, sms/WhatsApp Vikram Sridhar on 9945799224