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When sun retires it engulfes us in darkness the moon sheds light and provides life to our earth. Making sure to touch every corner with its rays. Similarly, on storywok we share stories to liven up your life when ever and where ever you need it. Albeit being much smaller then the sun, the moon is the fifth largest of its kind in our solar system. And fret not our stories will cover every inch of the moon as we journey from one end to another.\\xa0

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In our Miso segment listen to a story as wonderfully narrated by Anabelle Castano from Spain to share a Korean folktale about a brother and a sister that turn into sun and moon.\\xa0

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In Dim Sum,\\xa0the adult segment join Deeptha Vivekanand as she tells us a story about Brihaspati\\u2019s wife Tara being strong and bold in making her choices and has a child through Chandra!\\xa0

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In our tandem story segment Fortune Cookie we have Prakrati Agrawal and Nandita Sankaran with a beautiful story in Hindi and English, a story about Chandra and his curses and why he weans off and waxes of a king\'s love for music.\\xa0

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Now that we have all the steps to take in preparing for storytelling it\\u2019s time to be ready to tell to an audience. Geeta Ramanujam from India is going to help and guide us on how to rehearse and incorporate everything we have learnt so far in our segment Ace the Story during the interview.

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Not to miss is our Pantry discussion by the episode producers about the Moon and then followed by FEAST offerings in the month of Oct.\\xa0

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Episode Hosts & Producers:

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Anamika Bhati - An educator working with children nurturing their creativity by bringing stories to life through drama, role-play and activities ensuring engaging and holistic learning. Someone who believes that stories are the best way of connecting and communicating with each other.

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Meenu Sivaramakrishnan, a performance storyteller from India. I truly believe that stories are an experience that are not only entertaining but also enriching. And of course, what better way to connect with people than Stories!

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Nidhi Gujral

Nidhi started her professional journey as a management consultant in the corporate sector. But eventually her love for finding and collecting stories everywhere around her led her to change her career path completely!She stepped into professional storytelling in the year 2019 out of passion for books & children. Thus, Pip & Squeak was born.Since then, she has used her stories to advocate literacy, create thinkers, incite creativeness, and make learning fun by often coupling it with engaging activities & crafts to provide an experience that delights kids and parents alike. Find her stories on (https://www.instagram.com/pip_nd_squeak/)\\xa0& (https://youtube.com/c/PipSqueakstories/)

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Our Expert Segment\\xa0\\xa0

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Geeta Ramanujam\\xa0

Geeta Ramanujam a\\xa0Master\\xa0Storyteller, Trainer, Author, and Academician is the\\xa0founder and Director of\\xa0KATHALAYA\'S INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF STORYTELLING - offering 3 levels of Certified courses in Storytelling with accreditations\\xa0to Universities in USA, UK & Sweden.

For over 35 years she has traveled to over 43 countries with her performances and trained over 93,493 people in the Art of Storytelling. She has been mentioned by The Honourable Prime Minister of India for her contribution to Storytelling recently. Geeta is the pioneer of the Storytelling Movement in India. She has published a book \'Tales from the World\\u2019\\xa0recently by Penguin Random House, India.\\xa0www.kathalaya.org

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Featured Tellers

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Anabelle Casta\\xf1o

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Anabelle Casta\\xf1o is a bilingual storyteller, archaeologist and museum educator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She interweaves her three professions and works on building bridges between material and immaterial culture through traditional stories from all continents.

When a world pandemic isn\\u2019t going around, she works at the Ambrosetti Ethnographic Museum performing, organizing storytelling sessions, doing guided tours, researching and consulting for other institutions. She\'s a member of FEAST and since 2019 she\\u2019s part of the storytelling committee for the Buenos Aires International Book Fair -which has hosted for 25 years a storytellers\' international meeting-.

Nowadays you can find her online telling folktales, offering workshops on storytelling, online resources, repertoire and oral traditions and developing content for various projects.

For more from Anabelle, contact her at:\\xa0anabelle.cas@gmail.com\\xa0\\xa0or\\xa0www.anacas.com.ar

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Deeptha Vivekanand

Deeptha Vivekanand has been an educator for a few years and Professional Storyteller for many more. She performs for audiences in schools, colleges, and corporate organisations. She is also a Storyteller-in-Residence in a private school in Chandigarh, India, where she helps teachers use storytelling as pedagogy. Deeptha loves to tell stories about stories, strong women, and political satire.

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Prakrati Agrawal

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Prakrati Agrawal loves telling stories that make me laugh and learn at the same time.

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Story Wok is produced by FEAST ( Federation of Asian Storytellers), our focus is on spreading Asian stories, celebrating the tellers from the Philippines in the East to Turkey in the West and the storytelling communities that lie in-between.

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Write to us at feaststory@gmail.com | storywok@gmail.com

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For details of upcoming events visit our website www.feast-story.org