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At Workshop, Storytellers Read Telltale Signs Of Youth Reading
By parul118, Section Events
The idea is to make kids get to read quality books based on solid values, and book reading does not become an article of conspicuos consumption Nilima Sinha President of the AWIC
Does children's book reading go beyond the obvious boy-wizard tales, and how to promote culture through it? Questions which any storyteller might have asked herself or others. From today, for the next three days, writers and artists of children's stories have gathered in the Capital to answer these questions at the International Conference on Storytelling. The gathering of writers from all the continents is being hosted by India's Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children (AWIC), but the discussions will not merely be limited to the written medium. Papers are to be presented on different media as mime (including a performance by special children), Kathak by Shovana Narayan, a Pakistani shadow play group, ballet and puppets. Click on "Full Story" for more...
Inaugurating the meeting, Prof Bipan Chandra, chairman NBT and Geeta Ramanujam, director of Kathalaya said that storytelling as a craft today had to shoulder numerous responsibilities, most important of which are spreading cultural awareness, continuing traditions and developing them, educating children on current topics like the envi ronment and other issues which"this generation will have to confront later.
"In the spirit of these "added responsibilities" the writers and artists from the US, Iran, India, Pakistan, Mongolia, France, New Zealand and other diverse cultures will discuss environmental writing, promoting peace, the role of performing arts, tribal traditions, the needs of special children, and, most important, the promotion of book culture. "The idea is to make sure children today get to read quality books based on solid values, and that book reading does not become another article of conspicuous consumption," said Nilima Sinha, president of the AWIC, talking to Newsline. Plays performed by children, exhibitions on stories and illustrations, a festival of storytelling and other events are also on the agenda. Source:Indian Express,18 Sep,2007
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