A wise person once said,”Laughter is the best medicine”.
Laughter is an expression that knows no boundaries. Despite age gaps or cultural differences, people from all over the world and all walks of life know how to let out a laugh.So says Kausar Karimi ,Nidhi Gujral and Shelly Verma who also happen to be the hosts of our brand-new episode.
And so for the next hour or so in Episode 4, let’s laugh together.
Get ready for “Giggles and Guffaws” !
Sprinkle some silliness and let your heart be lighter with the stories we have lined up for you in Miso, Dimsum and Fortune cookie segments, a hearty spread of 3 tales told by 4 FEAST tellers. Jeff Gere(Hawaii) will tickle you silly with a story from Indonesia called “Odin and the Pinoy Bird”. Debjani Bhaduri(India) telling of an old Tamil folktale will send you into raptures. And Richa Sinha(India) and Meenu Sivaramakrishnan (India) multi-lingual story told in tandem in Bhojpuri and English will send your heart singing and laughing at the same time.
In our special “Ace your Story” segment, we chat with Antonio Rocha(USA), to find out all about using emotions while telling stories.He also shares an interesting advice on how important it is to distance oneself from the stories and find that perfect emotional balance while telling stories.
Us podcast producers raise a cacophony in our Pantry segment twisting our tongues inside our mouths.Great for those looking to engage better with your audiences, a great ice-breaker game and also to loosen your tongue(we mean in the literal sense!) before telling stories.
Featured tongue twisters:
Kachcha Papad Pakka Papad
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo
(From the book “Tikki Tikki Tembo”. It is a 1968 picture book written by Arlene Mosel and illustrated by Blair Lent.)
Featured Storytellers
JEFF GERE
Jeff Gere blends talents as painter, puppeteer, and mime into performances which have electrified audiences in Hawaii for 30 years. Jeff's physical energy, morphing elastic face and voice characteristics make his shows events. Jeff becomes his stories!
DEBJANI BHADURI
A decade ago, by sheer coincidence, Debjani came to know about the art form Storytelling. Since then she has been sharing stories across all age groups to spread happiness and joy.She loves retelling folktales, mythological accounts and authored classics lacing them with contemporary thread and adding a hint of humour.She believes stories could be the best way for skill development and she has been training teachers to teach concepts through stories and coaching corporate professionals soft skills through stories..
RICHA SINHA
Richa Sinha is the Founder of TheStoryMunch and a Festival curator. With her delightful stories in Hindi, English & Bhojpuri, she aims to increase the Happiness & Emotional Quotient of people.
MEENU SIVARAMAKRISHNAN
Meenu Sivaramakrishnan, a Performance Storyteller from Bengaluru, India, truly believes that stories are an experience that are not only entertaining but also enriching. After a decade in the IT industry, she quit to pursue her passion and love for performing Arts. She began her initiative called “KATHA GALATTA - Unleash Ur Joy Thru’ Stories” to rekindle the joy of discovering characters and revive the love for oral storytelling.
Featured Storytelling Expert
ANTONIO ROCHA
Antonio Rocha has performed his dynamic and unique fusion of mime, spoken word with realistic sound effects and his tenor voice from the USA to New Zealand covering 20 countries across 6 continents in venues such as The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian, and Festivals in the US, Singapore, India, Taiwan and more.
Antonio has many recordings, a picture book, is a two time TEDx presenter and amongst his many awards received, he has earned the coveted Circle of Excellence Award by the National Storytelling Network for his "exceptional commitment and exemplary contributions to the art of storytelling.
www.storyinmotion.com
HOSTS:
Kausar Karimi
Kausar loves to travel and go for hikes and walks. She enjoys the outdoors and tries to look for stories that she comes across through her travels. Her motto is “There is a tale at every turn” and that keeps her interested in people and places. Not afraid to try different things, Kausar is a Speech and Drama instructor who uses stories to bring out the creative expression in the kids. She loves a good dramatization of folklore and often uses props and puppets to express herself.
Nidhi Gujral
Nidhi started her professional journey as a management consultant in the corporate sector. But eventually her love for finding and collecting stories everywhere around her led her to change her career path completely!She stepped into professional storytelling in the year 2019 out of passion for books & children. Thus, Pip & Squeak was born.
Since then, she has used her stories to advocate literacy, create thinkers, incite creativeness, and make learning fun by often coupling it with engaging activities & crafts to provide an experience that delights kids and parents alike. Find her stories on (https://www.instagram.com/pip_nd_squeak/) & (https://youtube.com/c/PipSqueakstories/)
Shelly Verma
Shelly Verma is a teller of tales who grew up in India listening to stories of kings, queens, animals, gods and goddesses from folklore and mythology. She carries these stories in her mind and her heart no matter where she is. Her repertoire includes stories from around the world but her main focus is using these stories to create awareness about the pressing issues of our times and be a part of the change. She believes in stories that inspire social change, give voice to the unheard and make the unseen noticed. You can find her stories on Facebook @Storyteller.ShellyVerma or Instagram @verma.shelly
Story Wok is produced by FEAST(Federation of Asian Storytellers ), (https://www.feast-story.org/ ). Our focus is on spreading Asian stories, celebrating colours from the Philippines in the east to Turkey in the west and the story telling communities that lie in between.
Write to us at feaststory@gmail.com | storywok@gmail.com
For details of upcoming events visit our website www.feast-story.org
