Selina is a Canadian Storyteller and Early Childhood Educator. She weaves tales of all genre with her voice, a prop or two; or with felt creations to open a portal where journeys unfold. Listeners of all ages have heard her tell stories in schools, libraries, galleries and festivals in
Canada, US and internationally.

Alla Lebedeva (Russia, Moscow) tells stories to the audience age from 1.5 to 100. She conducts workshops for teachers to show how to use storytelling in teaching and for school children for learning with fun. She also helps people to tell stories of their lives as she believes that our souls talk through stories!

Christa D. Komba is a graduate of Bachelor of Art With Honours (Drama),Witswatersrand University, Johannersburg-South Africa also a holder of performing arts Certificate at Bagamoyo College of Arts.
Currently she is a Story teller, an Actor, Director, Play writer and Theatre for Development Facilitator and Consultant. She is also former Bagamoyo college of arts instructor. Christa has cut out herself as a Storyteller, who combines both the academics and live performance with enviable ease. She has developed an interactive physical performance technique that often disarms her audiences into a collective creative performance experience. She has performed widely in her country-Tanzania and internationally.
Christa has participated in national and International Festivals in Kenya, Uganda, Iran, Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Ethiopia, India, Botswana to mention a few.

Ariyo Zidni, also known as “Kak Aio”, is a well-known storyteller in Indonesia. Storyteller with unique voice and facial mannerism. Founder of Ayo Dongeng, Indonesia (Storytelling Community), Indonesia International Storytelling Festival (the biggest Storytelling festival in Indonesia), Gulali Festival (Art Performances Festival for Children), and The Nest (Storytelling Community for Adult). Ariyo was drawn to the social healing aspect of storytelling since telling stories at hospitals in 1999, and now he is a children story writer, storytelling coach, and lecturer on Children Literature Subject. Ariyo Zidni has been invited to tell in various international storytelling festivals in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, India, America, and many others.

Barry Stewart Mann is a Storyteller, Actor and Arts Educator based in Atlanta, USA. He shares stories from around the world, as well as literary, historical, personal, and original tales, and travels to schools and libraries in the US with curriculum-based and thematic storytelling programs. Internationally, Barry was featured at the II Festival Internacional de Cuentacuentos in Santo Domingo, DR, and has toured to nearly a dozen Latin American cities with Argentina's Dream On Productions. Barry appears at the Under the Aalamaram Festival in coordination with his tenure as a Fulbright Specialist sharing drama and storytelling integration strategies with educators and students across southern India.

C. Mangalam Senthil is an IT Professional turned into a Professional Performance Storyteller & Coach, who strongly believes that Everyone Everywhere is telling stories all the time and that a world of possibilities opens up with stories.
A lover of anecdotes, mythology & folktales, she is a member of FEAST (Federation of Asian Storytellers) and has performed in Indian & International Storytelling Festivals. A Story Enthusiast, a Tedx Speaker, a Vedanta student, a Kolam fanatic & Educator, Mangalam tells stories under the banner of Katha Kuteeram, meaning “Story Cottage”. She is comfortable sharing stories in English, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi.

Sowmya Srinivasan has an Mphil.in Psychology (HR) (Annamalai University) and is working in the field of Professional Storytelling for over 14 years. She uses storytelling and creatives techniques to develop imagination through a venture called SoulSpace Storytell. Sowmya facilitates circles of healing storytelling called Soul Story Mandala for adults and is an associate at Muktha Foundation, Bangalore; an organisation working in the space of mental health and abuse prevention. She is one of the founder-members of Bangalore Storytelling Society, a not- for-profit community that promotes, nurtures and spreads awareness about the Art of Oral Storytelling.

Vikram Sridhar is a Performance Storyteller, Theatre Practitioner and a Narrative based Facilitator. His Stories, Performance and Workshops for Children, Students, Adults and Families are rooted in Heritage, Ecology and Folklore deeply inspired from various communities of the soil. Based in Chennai and Bangalore, he travels the country extensively with his Desi way of Storytelling.

The Story till now…
Once upon a time there lived a talkative little girl… from morn to night she loved to talk to anybody and everybody. She had the gift of the gab even as early as five years old. She told stories to friends, neighbours, younger cousins and even to adults. She always had a crowd around her, wherever she went there was laughter, joy, fun and she was admired by both young and the old. Some of her nicknames were “Vayaadi” (talkative girl), Gun Throat, Joker,Fatso and Jeeves.
How did she get this talent? Thanks to her genes and her joint family that taught her stories, storytelling, story sharing. Her expressive voice and rubber face and her big eyes added colour to her personality and her tellingâ..
WHO IS THIS?… JEEVA RAGHUNATH … SO GOES HER STORY …