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 | |
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!
Kotryna Zylė
Bio
Kotryna Zyle is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer of books for children and young adults. Zylė’s books are often rooted in Lithuanian mythology and include allegorical reflections on key issues in life and the universe that will delight young readers.
Since 2017 Kotryna is one of the founders and organisers of two important children’s literature industry events: the children’s literature festival “Children’s Book Island” and the children’s literature industry days for professionals „Creator Island“ in Vilnius, Lithuania.
http://kotrynazyle.lt
Greta Alice
Bio
Greta Alice is a young artist deeply focused on books for children and young adults. The artist also works actively in the fields of comics, live drawing performances, and workshops in her own “Traveling Creative Comics Laboratory”. Greta feels a great passion for nonsense literature. That’s why her illustrations are vivid and full of unexpected details, which can be found only by the most attentive readers.
Since 2021 Greta is one of the organisers of the children’s literature festival “Children’s Book Island” in Vilnius, Lithuania.
http://www.facebook.com/GretAlice
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