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1. The summer camps this time have been meaningful. Kathalaya was requested to do the summer camps for all their Neev Child Development Centres at Whitefiled, Sadashivnagar and Kioramangala. It was a three week camp and Kathalaya's professionally trained resource people Struck an excellent chord with the children. Bhuvana, Swetha Gupta, Spatica. R, Anshul Pathak,Malini. M, and Neha Toshniwal were the resource team. It was packed with stories, activities, Music puppetry games and Role play. ( Document being sent by Manjula)
2. The summer art program at NGMA-National Gallery of Modern Art combined Storytelling with the Art and paintings and Stories were told relating the Art to the story and vice versa. Geeta Ramanujam and Arathi Parigi were the team .It was a week long camp
3. For the first time Kathalaya did a workshop on Storytelling at Rangashankara- a week long camp . The children were excited and happy to listen to stories, do activities recall the tales and to do some role play and games. Anshul Pathak, Geeta Ramanujam, Swetha Gupta and Chanakya Vyas were part of the Resource team.
4. A Story Reading workshop was tried out again for the first time at EAsy Library Koramangala. Authors were talked about and excerpts from the books were read out to the children. Some of the authors chosen were RK Narayan,Ruskin Bond, Jaon Aiken, Enid Blyton, E.B White and a few others. The Resource persons were Geeta Ramanujam, Bhuvana, Shumal, Meera Venkatesan, Deepica Arwind .
5. My Lib - Inauguration of the Storytelling session by Geeta Ramanujam for the children.
6. A camp at Mintree consultants for the company"s children is in the offing in May along with a workshop for Shobha Opel apartments children. Intensive training program saw some brilliant and sincere performances by the staff while the workshop for the Treamus school staff was also encouraging.
7. Whoever wishes to donate help contribute or sponsor the festival would be most welcome. It is being held in five cities in four states and attaching the concept note and the sponsorship details.

   Whoever wishes to donate help contribute or sponsor the festival would be most welcome. It is being held in five cities in four states and attaching the concept note and the sponsorship details.kathalaya@gmail.com.

Day1: Loved connectivity with people. Felt like I am in a fairy land where nothing go wrong while listening to the stories. Well sprea d but not too demanding. Tara: Enjoyed listening session and Geeta’s story narration.

Day 2 : Eye contact by Ola was fun.

Day 3 : The Prince and the witch story impressed me most

Tara:

Day 1 :  Enjoyed listening session and Geeta’s story narration.

Day 2 : More stories and more fun. Nice group and interaction.

Day 3 : The way Geeta narrates the story impressed me most

Feedback Academy Session (Batch 23)Jan, 2011

Day 1 – Voice– Introduction,Listening, Internal aspects of story telling Nyayas,Creativity & Lesson plan

Sarita Talwai : We became aware of so many different aspects of story telling that one normally overlooks..

Muthu : Made me wonder how so many aspects and nearly 17 stories were packed for the day without feeling tired

Rajasree Sen : Geeta’s enthusiasm and energy really touched me!.

Lakshmi.G : Geeta really practices what she preaches-is very passionate about it

Day 2 – Voice, Body Language, Childhood stories

Sarita Talwai: Very amusing and interesting. Had lots of fun doing what I have discovered a long time ago to be one of my passions.

S.Deivanayaki: Body language session was different.

Lakshmi: Good physical and mental workout today – had fun doing both.

Day 3 : Presentation, Puppetry:

Sarita Talwai: The presentation was exciting. We enjoyed each other’s stories. Puppetry workshop was good.

Muthu: I learnt a lot from all my friends. Puppetry was interesting..

Savitha: This was the best session so far. Both Varalakshmi and Geeta were different.

Rajasree Sen: Every story and the expert judgment made a great learning experience.

Lakshmi: Presentation was good and fulfilling.

In a nutshell:

Sarita Talwai: I was very impressed with the skills implanted by Geeta regarding voice modulation and sounds

Muthu: : Session about how to create a story was and will be the most helpful one.

Revathi : The session had a structured pattern of training and it was very professional which carried values. I was also impressed by the down to earth attitude of Geeta.

Lakshmi: The preparation ( Story Board) part showed how much effort goes before actual narration

Rajasree Sen: The most impressing part was the energy and the vibrancy of Geeta.