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Stories on a Sunday
Playing with Poems
Facilitators
The title of this poetry-reading session is Playing with Poems. An artistic twist is added to the poem recitals, thereby showcasing playful and creative ways to explore poems. This session takes a non-formal approach to experience poems mainly outside the cliched genre of romance. The audience is welcome to bring their favourite (non-romantic) poem along!
There would be poetry performed with space for audience interaction after each piece. The audience will be invited to share their poetry towards the end.
Facilitators
Deepak Hariharan
Deepak Hariharan is a musician, actor, writer and educator who is the Creative Director of Paradox Studios, involved in teaching creative and performing arts to children and adults. Besides being a learner for life, Deepak has judged various school and collegiate programmes and events, often offering the participants an enjoyable twist to the format of the mandated event.
Paradox Studios:
An entity which does “Anything for the Arts”!
Founded in 2019, Paradox was able to brave the pandemic by focusing on sustainable ways to conduct lessons, workshops, consultations and credit-based courses in speech & drama, public speaking and creative writing to institutions across and beyond Bengaluru. Paradox is also involved with illustrations and 2D animation and is working on animation and theatre projects based on the life of old-school Bangaloreans.
Shravanthi Venkatesh
Shravanthi was born and raised in Bengaluru, India. On paper, she is a Psychotherapist and Dramatherapist, and off paper she lives a more exciting and kaleidoscopic life, where she is a writer, poet, Indian classical dancer, actor, play-back theatre artist, meditation facilitator, activist, and feminist.
She specializes in working with the Self, identity, trauma, grief & loss, and shame through the lens of intersectionality and restorative & social justice.
She believes that working with the arts & play, our bodies, and nature are crucial for healing in connection with oneself and one’s community.
Svaha Space:
Svaha Space is a mental health initiative that works towards bringing healing and wellbeing lifestyle practices through play and creative-expressive therapies. Svaha Space has held events and workshops within India and Nepal that focus on bringing the community together such as Grief & Ritual, Letters of Connection, Who Am I? Who I Am, and Love Notes to the Body.
