SAF: A blend of storytelling & music for Keri, Molem pupils

Panaji: Integrating storytelling into performance arts, the Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) will hold the ‘Stories Of Nature’ workshops wherein everything from trees, birds, animals, rivers to mountains and human beings, tell a story.

SAF will collaborate with the education department for the project which will be held in government high schools in Keri, Molem and Surla from November 27 to December 1.

Drawing on children’s innate capacity for fantasy and imaginative play, the workshops will blend storytelling, movement and music. They will use the vocabulary of traditional dance and martial arts practices to tell stories with the body and help children explore their world.

The workshops will be conducted with students from classes V-VIII with three sessions each day over five days at each school.

Mumbai-based Jhelum Paranjape, an Odissi choreographer, will be the lead facilitator along with RaamKumar R, a kalarippayattu practitioner, who comes from the CVN Kalari Trivandrum family.

“We want to take arts beyond performance spaces and develop an active relationship between artistes and society at large. We are particularly interested in reaching out to those who have fewer opportunities to access these arts,” said Smriti Rajgarhia, SAF director.