Storytelling: India

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Storytelling, oral

Kathakar festival, 2017

Kathakar: International Storytellers Festival , 30 November, 2017: Press Information Bureau

Kathakar (Ministry of Culture) is the only oral storytelling festival in India and is a part of Ghummakkad Narain- the Travelling Literature Festival which was started under the aegis of UNESCO in 2010. Kathakar is an attempt to not just preserve the art form but also create new audiences for the same.

Kathakar is a special initiative within the bigger festival, Ghummakkad Narain, to promote the oral storytelling tradition which has existed across the world. Though performance storytelling has seen a revival in Europe, in India only few efforts have been made to contemporize the art form. The festival in 2017 is hosted in the cities of Delhi, Gurugram, Noida and Mumbai. The partners for 2017 festival are the IGNCA of Union Ministry of Culture in Delhi, Heritage Transport Museum in Gurugram and the NCPA in Mumbai.