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SUMMARY:IKS Meta-Retreat: Oral Storytelling Traditions - The Road Ahead
DESCRIPTION:INDICA is pleased to launch a Meta-Retreat on “Oral Storytelling Traditions – The Road Ahead” from 22nd to 24th March 2024. This is designed as a coming together of minds engaged with oral storytelling: practitioners\, academics and cultural thinkers\, who appreciate and contemplate its varied dimensions\, diverse forms\, altering terrains and other features from the age-old to the contemporary. \nIKS Meta-Retreats are immersive intellectual explorations spanning 2-3 days\, led by an Acharya in the ambience of a Gurukula and conducted with an attitude of Shraddha. Acharya\, is the subject matter expert (SME)\, seeking to explore a specific topic\, discipline\, or domain along with a cohort. 9-12 participants who possess shradda and the right experience in the chosen theme form the cohort. This cohort then comes together with an upanishadic attitude of learning through immersion at a location that echoes the ambience of a Gurukula. \nAs we chart a new course for the Nation based on Dharma\, it is important to take stock of our storytelling forms and resinstrument them as we re-narrativize our past and present. We must have our stories of the future and for the future as well. \nThe Meta-Retreat is designed for practitioners\, academics\, thinkers of Oral StoryTelling Traditions to come on this platform to exchange thoughts\, engage with each other and explore the subject. Through this Meta-Retreat\, we seek to raise curiosities together to gain insights by retracing the path taken and review the existing landscape to envision the journey ahead. We seek to cover a wide range of topics such as a review and reimagination of the role and scope of oral storytelling\, strengths and limitations of traditional and contemporary practices\, and forms and instruments needed for the future. \nThe 2-Day program broadly has 8 sessions which are organised around the following elements weaving together an immersive and transformative experience. \n\nInvocation\nCohort Introduction and Concerns around the subject\nA Stock Taking of the Present\nA Deep Dive into the Past to understand the Present\nProblems\, Concerns\, Conflicts that require Resolution\nThe Emergence and the Opportunities\nDesired Future\nHow do we get to the Desired Future\nThe Next Steps\n\nThe Evenings shall be spent in informal conversations around the subject with a visit to the Arunachala Shiva Temple and Ramana Maharshi Ashram. \nThe Meta-Retreat would be led by Smt. Deepa Kiran – renowned Storyteller and head of Story Arts Foundation.. \nAs an outcome\, we seek to create a Vision Paper to be produced and published in 2024-25 along with another focused Group Project of immediate impact. \nINDICA is pleased to invite applications from storytellers\, academicians\, thinkers and artists to be part of this Meta-Retreat cohort. The cohort will be carefully selected by the SME and INDICA consisting of practitioners\, academics\, thinkers\, and activists. Please send us your bio at namaste@indica.org.in. A 300 word summary mentioning the subject\, domain\, or discipline you seek to explore along with the names of cohort participants they would like to invite should also be furnished. \nTravel\, logistics\, and accommodation at the Retreat will be hosted and managed by INDICA.
URL:https://indica.events/event/iks-meta-retreat-oral-storytelling-traditions-the-road-ahead/
LOCATION:Bilvam Foundation Retreat\, Tiruvannamalai\, Bilvam Foundation Retreat\, Tiruvannamalai\, Tamilnadu\, 606601\, India
CATEGORIES:Retreats
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