GYAAN ADAB PRESENTS THE STORY TOUR

A shared experience of our past, beyond boundaries, beyond differences.
Ancient tales from around the world brought alive and retold in a solo performance for the people of Pune.
by
RANDHIR KHARE
Award-winning poet, folklorist & performer

In a divided world, culture and the creative experience become important nurturing ways by which we can encourage a common sharing that transcends boundaries. Gyaan Adab’s Story Tour tries in an intimate way to rediscover our common heritage through folk tales, myths and legends. The stories that will be retold on the tour are drawn from traditional communities from all over the world. Though they have emerged from diverse sources, their similarities are often apparent. This is because they have essentially all come down to us from the depths of time where boundaries did not exist and our planet was a common space for the traffic of thoughts, ideas, feelings, journeys and discoveries.
The stories have come from traditional communities belonging to far-flung places on our planet – the Native Americans, the Incas, Mayas, Bushmen, the great Norse travellers, the shepherds of the lower Himalayas, the Mullukurumba hunters, the Bhils, the Santhals, the Muriyas, the Mariyas, the Gonds and a host of others – relived and shared in the language of today, fresh, vibrant, excitingly new.
And of course, finally, the purpose of The Story Tour is also to create a travelling space of entertainment that celebrates the magical art of storytelling.
The stories have been grouped into themes and each performance on the tour presents stories around one theme. The themes are:

Stories Of Creation on Saturday 19th July at GyaanAdab Centre @ 6.30 pm

Heroes & Heroines on Saturday 26th July at The Loft @ 6.45 pm

Magical Moments That Changed the World on Saturday 2nd August at The Culture Centre @ 7 pm

When Good Triumphed on Saturday 9th August at British Council Library @ 5.30 pm

Eternal Love Stories on Sunday 10th August at Shisha Café @ 6.30 pm

Great Journeys on Saturday 23rd August at Pagdandi @ 4.30 pm

Ends & Beginnings on Friday 29th August at GyaanAdab Centre @ 6.30 pm

Randhir Khare has for the last four decades travelled extensively, collecting stories and song-poems from traditional communities and has spent valuable time bringing them to us in a language that is vibrantly new and dramatic. He has published and performed these stories and song-poems and reached out to a wide audience, captivating listeners by his stylistic flight of language and drama.
He has performed with traditional Indian musicians, jazz bands, an Iranian santoor player and the Chamber Singers and his lyrics have been set to music by A.R.Rahman. He is the recipient of numerous theatre awards in West Bengal.