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The myriad ways of telling a story

Staff Reporter

Harry Potter series dominated the storytelling contest organised in Bangalore

SAYING IT IN ACTION: Schoolchildren performing a few scenes from the Harry Potter series at `Kathotsava-2006' in Bangalore on Friday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

Bangalore: The art of storytelling is evergreen and with every progressing generation, it has become richer. Have you heard tales of the clever rabbit, the cunning fox, and the stories of kings and queens?

Kathalaya tried to revive the romance of storytelling with "Kathotsava" recently.

There was a competitive section where children had to act out the characters and incidents from storybooks.

Geeta Ramanujam, executive director of Kathalaya, says: Storytelling helps in contributing to the emotional quotient of the children".

Kathalaya is involved in the project of integrating storytelling in school curriculum.

The festival had many competitions like story writing, tell-a-tale contest for the primary school children.

Harry Potter is the most popular book among children's literature these days and Kathalaya brought this as the theme for the story telling contest conducted for high school children. The children had to enact any Harry Potter incident or story for 10 minutes. Thirteen schools participated in this event. Each team consisted of five students. The atmosphere was abuzz with spells like Expecto Patronum and Avada Kedavra.

The costumes were good and the music used by some groups added colour to the overall presentation. The stories of course, were well known to children in the audience.

Edgar Ortiz, a professional storyteller from Costa Rica and Vani Sriramesh, founder of "Easy Library", judged the competition. The Presidency School won the first place and Ashwini of the same school won the Best Storyteller prize.

The second prize was bagged by Sudershan Vidya Mandir, the third place was taken by Vidyaniketan and St. Peters won the special prize.

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