Interactive Story telling Workshop with Dr Vayu Naidu

Key information

Date
Time
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Venue
Russell Square: College Buildings
Room
563

About this event

Dr Vayu Naidu (SOAS)

Come and learn how to be a story-teller. Explore the narrative and performance strategies of story-tellers, and the cultural politics of story-telling traditions around the world with Dr Vayu Naidu , story-teller and author.

“As a Storyteller, researching story for performance has covered interviews with individuals, and occasionally their interpretation of known and orally performed texts such as Ramayana, across rural and urban contexts in India and Nepal. As a novelist my interest is in inhabiting a local context that is straddling between tradition and change. My current project is with the Iralu, one of the diverse tribal communities living in southern India. The Iralu children are in a school Vidyavanam, Coimbatore, India. While I visited two areas - Aanaikatti between the borders of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, and Shaloor which is deep in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, I found a terrain rich with story, and the challenge is recording it - orally and in writing. My interest is not function as a recorder, but in creating an experiential process for the participants, of expressing their emotions and notions of time.” Vayu Naidu

Vayu Naidu is author of Sita’s Ascent , nominated for Commonwealth Book award, India (Penguin 2013), and author of the novel The Sari of Surya Vilas (Speaking Tiger Publishing, 2017).

Partition Stories

Alchemy festival, Southbank Centre, 20th May 2017, 3.45pm

A reading and discussion of The Sari of Surya Vilas by Vayu Naidu will take place on 20th May at Southbank Centre in partnership with the Karachi Literature Festival on the theme of writing the experience of Partition for Partition Stories .

Nimra Bucha, Vayu Naidu, Zehra Nigah, Shayma Saiyid, Amrit Kaur Lohia, Sarah Ansari and Kamran Asdar Ali introduce a medley of readings, film clips, recitals, dance and poetry about the Partition of India, moderated by Urvashi Butalia.

ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival at the British Library

ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, British Library, 20th May, all day event

The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival returns to London presenting a sumptuous showcase of South Asia’s literary heritage, oral and performing arts, books and ideas, dialogue and debate. The British Library spaces will be transformed in this two-day taster of the extraordinary free festival which takes place in the Rose City of Jaipur, India, every January.

Parting and Company Vayu Naidu with music by Arpan Shira 11.30 – 12.30 Entrance Hall