Children | Literature | Fun - Bangalore Literature Festival 2022

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!

At the 2022 edition of the Festival there are two C|L|F venues on both days of the Festival – Seonee, named after the hills where Mowgli was reared and Malgudi, named after the town where Swami and Friends grew up. Both the venues are at the Lalit Gardens of the hotel. We’ll also have other carnival fun activities for children through the day.

And don’t miss the exclusive Atta Galatta bookstore for children, located at the Grand Ball Room.

Events start from 10 am.

Note: Please register for the C|L|F sessions using the form provided on this page.

Day 1 | Sat | Dec 3

#blrlitfest Venues
Seonee
(Lalit Gardens)
Malgudi
(Lalit Gardens)
10:00 am
The Wishing Tree
Amar Chitra Katha (5y+)
10:00 am
Tales from the World
Geeta Ramanujam (8y+)
10:30 am
Adventures on the Magic Couch
Shilpa Rao (4y+)
10:30 am
Build a Story
Art Sparks (6y+)
11:00 am
My Puppets Come Alive to Create Magic
Vijayalakshmi Nagaraj (4y+)
11:00 am
Jumbo Gifts
Devika Cariapa (8y+)
11:30 am
Har Taraf Kabootar!
Alankrita Amaya (6y+)
11:30 am
Walking is a Way of Knowing
Madhuri Ramesh (10y+)
12 noon
Hakeem's Hiccups
Babakiki (6y+)
12 noon
Noon Chai and A Story
Adithi Rao (6y+)
12:30 pm
Build a Story
Art Sparks (10y+)
12:30 pm
Mandala art on Canvas
Sujatha Srinivasan (4y+)
1:00 pm
Ready, Steady: Theatre Games
Krishna Kashyap KV (8y+)
1:00 pm
Defeating the Portugese, Maharani Style!
Kavitha Mandana (12y+)
1:30 pm
Hit Record: Podcasting for Kids
Piyush Agarwal (8y+)
1:30 pm
Verses and Colours
Lavanya Kapahi (6y+)
2:00 pm
Rhyme and My Eyes
Sowmya R (6y+)
2:00 pm
Paati's Rasam
Dhwani Sabesh and Janaki Sabesh (5y+)
2:30 pm
The Egghead Detective Agency
Pika Nani (6y+)
2:30 pm
History-onix
Sarita Nair (8y+)
3:00 pm
A Creative Kerfuffle: Fun with Word Games!
Nidhi Jaipuria (8y+)
3:00 pm
Mountain Spies and Saviours
Mala Kumar (8y+)
3:30 pm
Abstraction to Art
Aparajitha Vaasudev (10y+)
3:30 pm
The Mighty Annapurna
Rohan Raman (4y+)
4:00 pm
World's Youngest Historian
Zac Sangeeth (8y+)
4:00 pm
Children of the Hidden Land: Children in Conflict Zones
Mandira Shah (12y+)
4:30 pm
Fun with Ramanujan = Skit + Jokes + Digits
Arundhati Venkatesh (10y+)
4:30 pm
The Great Escape
Menaka Raman and Sheena Deviah (6y+)
MIDDLE TENT

1:30 pm and 5:00 pm
The Tiny Workshops
Kotyna Zylė and Greta Alice

All Day
Whale Tales
Arnab Chakravarty, Nikita Teresa Sarkar, Padmanabhan J, Sayak Shome and Uma Khardekar
– All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates.
– All authors will be at the bookstore (Grand Ballroom) for book signings after their sessions
– 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.
– Download the LitUp app for the schedule and AMA with speaker

Day 2 | Sun | Dec 4

#blrlitfest Venues
Seonee
(Lalit Gardens)
Malgudi
(Lalit Gardens)
10:00 am
Once Upon a Paper! Storigami
Shubha Das (6y+)
10:00 am
A Kaleidoscope to Journalism
Shruthi Manjula Mohan (10y+)
10:30 am
Dancing with Birds
Bulbul Sharma (6y+)
10:30 am
The Other Side
Inaya Gala with Aisiri Kudur (12y+)
11:00 am
Simply Nanju
Zainab Sulaiman (9y+)
11:00 am
It's Time to Rhyme
Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan (8y+)
11:30 am
Magic with Mudras
Poornima Kaushik (6y+)
12 noon
The World of Musical Instruments
Krithika Sreenivasan (6y+)
12 noon
The Chronicles of the Crimson One
Preeta Vasan with Aparna Jaishankar (10y+)
12:30 pm
Bookworms and Jellybellies
Ranjani Rao and Ruchira Ramanujam (4y+)
12:30 pm
Lesser Known Life of Amar Chitra Katha
Reena Puri and Ritoparna Hazra (10y+)
1:00 pm
The Amar Chitra Katha Quiz
1:00 pm
Creating Creatures: A Drawing Session
Labonie Roy (7y+)
1:30 pm
Bangalore Tales Through Postcards
Aparna Jaishankar, Meera Iyer and PeeVee
1:30 pm
Debbie G and Misfit Madhu: Alternate Careers
Divya Anand and Vibha Batra (10y+)
2:15 pm
The Mighty Annapurna
Rohan Raman (4y+)
2:15 pm
What Children Could be Reading
Bijal Vachcharajani, Aashti Mudnani, Aparna Kapur and Maithili Doshi (12y+)
2:45 pm
The First Magic Trick
Priyanka Agarwal Mehta (4y+)
3:00 pm
The Winning Spirit
Vikram Agnihotri (10y+)
3:15 pm
Where History Meets Mystery
Vani Mahesh (10y+)
3:30 pm
Living with Nature
Honey Irani (6y+)


3:45 pm
Kitten Trouble
Bijal Vachharajani and Rajiv Eipe (6y+)
4:15 pm
Fun with Children Writers
Abhinav Dileep, Khushi Deepak, Punya Reddy with Aparna Raman (10y+)
4:30 pm
Hishtory Dishtory
Ranjani Rao and Ruchira Ramanujam (8y+)
5:00 pm
Ventriloquism
Indushree Raveendra (4y+)
MIDDLE TENT

11:00 am and 4:00 pm
The Tiny Workshops
Kotyna Zylė and Greta Alice

All Day
Whale Tales
Arnab Chakravarty, Nikita Teresa Sarkar, Padmanabhan J, Sayak Shome and Uma Khardekar
– All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates.
– All authors will be at the bookstore (Grand Ballroom) for book signings after their sessions
– 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.
– Download the LitUp app for the schedule and AMA with speaker

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Tiny Workshops

 

Tiny Workshops in partnership with the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania.

Tiny Bugs Workshop

Kotyna Zylė & Greta Alice invite children to dive into the mysterious night under the starry sky with dozens of glowing Tiny Bugs created by kids themselves!

Tiny Book Workshop

Created by 17 Lithuanian writers and illustrators. Kotyna Zylė & Greta Alice invite kids to make their own Tiny Books!

ALL DAY
7+

Whale Tales

 

An immersive audio visual narrative experience, co-written with AI, highlighting carbon sequestration of whales through empathetic game play, using real life whales as main characters.

Considered to be ecosystem engineers, whales circulate essential nutrients throughout the ocean, and help trap massive amounts of carbon emissions from the atmosphere in their bodies. As nature’s very own solution to climate change, their dwindling numbers are an increasing cause for concern.

Whale Tales is an ongoing project that works to bring attention to these majestic mammals and their role in preventing an impending climate catastrophe. Using AI-generated imagery to incite empathy, the artwork creates an interactive narrative for the audience across all ages to engage with.

Taking into account the profound effect that engaging storytelling has in nurturing the sensibilities of young minds, the project employs the narratives of these critically endangered species to nudge people to think about the role of non-human actors in a collective ecosystem. As the project develops, it hopes to incorporate relevant pedagogical approaches in its implementation to complement ongoing efforts to conserve these sublime creatures of the ocean.

This project was developed under the mentorship of Harshit Agrawal during the BeFantastic Together Fellowship (2021) supported by Pro Helvetia New Delhi, US Embassy Singapore & Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore and further developed under the C-Cubed program in partnership with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai.

Artists: Arnab Chakravarty, Nikita Teresa Sarkar, Padmanabhan J, Sayak Shome and Uma Khardekar

Reading Circles: A theatrical reading of the storybook that leads into a storytelling activity that could involve drawing, colouring and writing about each child’s favourite whale character. Children will listen to stories highlighting the importance of whales in the ecosystem as well as take their creations back home with them.

AR interactions to get a deeper sensorial sense of the story to include soundscapes and movements triggered by prints and the book

Whale Mural: All through the day, children will have a chance to contribute to a 3ft x 6ft Whale Mural by leaving their handprints and a wish for their favourite whale character and the earth.

Queries

For any C|L|F related queries please call, sms/WhatsApp Vikram Sridhar on 9945799224