What does it take to create a story completely wordless, completely based on sounds and just using our facial muscles. We depend on our vocal vocabulary many times to convey a narrative and especially a story. What if we just have our sounds and our actions to create a story.

The workshop will explore various sound patterns, facial expressions, and simple mime-based exercises

Voice reactions and wordless responses create a narrative that’s completely wordless.

The workshop explores the possibility of sharing stories in ways that transcend our oral vocal vocabulary and tapping our body-based expressions  

What will you learn through the workshop:

• Ways to make stories wordless 
• Explore age-based adaptation of the same stories  
• Awareness towards our body based expressions
• New ways to adapt your existing story bank
• Performing to an audience who don’t connect with vocabulary-based content like specially-abled children, toddlers etc.

The workshop is suitable for

• Educators
• Writers
• Storytellers
• Teachers
• Theatre Artists
• Public speakers
• Anyone who works with children
• Anyone who works through a story and anyone willing to learn something new.

About the Workshop:

• The workshop will be conducted online through Zoom platform.
• The link to join the workshop will be shared on the day of the workshop
• Anyone over the age of 16 is welcome
• No prior experience is required.

About the artist:

Vikram Sridhar is a Bangalore/Chennai Performance Storyteller, Theatre Practitioner, and a Story Researcher especially folktales and Myths. Sitting behind temple elephants, nursing wounded puppies, working with various theatre groups, Vikram today combines his various interests and work over the years in his storytelling journey working with children teens and adults using Storytelling and Theatre. Through folklore and his extensive travels, he is trying to research and explore our rich heritage of oral literature through the various forms of art. He believes in storytelling as a strong medium of conservation, from nature to human relationships.

He is the co-founder of one of Bangalore’s esteemed theatre group, Tahatto and India’s first Storytelling collective, The Bangalore Storytelling Society. He is part of the organizing team of various literature based festivals like the Bangalore Literature Festival, Bengaluru Poetry Festival, Dum Dama Dum: Children theatre and Reading Festival, The BeSt ( Bengaluru Storytelling ) Festival, Kovai Bookalatta, among others. 

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