Small Tales Storytelling

06/09/2024

So grateful for the wonderful teachers who bring their sparkle into our classes to make our learners shine 💛💛

Truly a giggle fest when we're not teaching or making lesson plans! 🤣

Excited for building a bigger and stronger team in 2024!
Happy Teacher's Day!!
Thank you

01/05/2024

Working with group of teenagers can be so rewarding. We discuss about life, the world, things that disappoint us and how we can do something about it... The list is endless.
While sharing our objectives from this course, besides the regular pointers like speaking clearly, better articulation, developing confidence etc, what stood out for me was how each of them truly believe that 'Stories can help establish connections and make a difference to people's lives.'

Today, while conducting an exercise on use of objects creatively, two of the students passed the object to another by throwing it in their direction. We paused the exercise, and I asked the children who received it, 'How did that make you feel?'

It was something that none of them had ever been asked before. And hence, no one knew how to answer it. After a long discussion of what the other should/could have done, one of them was finally able to say, 'I felt disrespected.'

It was such a wonderful moment of realisation among each of them. The energy in the room changed and they immediately became aware of how their small gesture might affect someone else.

It's something I think about often - communication, or the lack of it, that can change our lives drastically. It can create, or resolves so many problems in the world.

For now, my wish for this group is to go back and be able to share how they feel, and become a little more sensitive towards those around them as well. ❣️

06/04/2024

AND we're back!!
Join Mea and Lilo in their adventures this summer Summer Fiesta!
Lovely to be back to where we started last year and travelling across the country all year long and sharing their story with over 1000 children ❣️
9th June 2024
Book your tickets soon before we sell out 💛
Link in BIO and here
https://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/the-land-of-mea-lilo/ET00392992

03/04/2024

A glimpse into our delightful afternoon spent inside Khwab Ghar (House of Dreams) ✨

1. The Library Room : where the kids from the basti engage in educational games, puzzles, age appropriate books of stories of all genres and from around the world. They are allowed to take these home and bring them back to take another whenever they like. 📚

2. Zainab Baaji telling them a story about common spaces in their locality and asking them how they can take responsibility towards keeping it clean and green. This was followed by giving a flower pot, mud and fertilizers and seeds to plant in it to each pair. Which they need to nurture everyday at Khwab Ghar to see it grow and flower in the weeks ahead. 🌻

3. To tackle the situation of books not being returned to the library, this tree was created. Everytime a book is returned, a flower blooms on it. Such a beautiful way to reinforce positive behavior among the little ones. ❣️

4. The magical corridor that leads into the different rooms, and the founder of Aaghaz going about firefighting as usual for the senior showcase coming up in the evening. 🎭

Thank you for the lovely time and having us witness the absolutely commendable work that you'll do!! 💛💛

19/03/2024

It's World Storytelling Day and we complete 10 amazing years of Small Tales!!
Come join us in a celebration of stories
on
- Wednesday, 20th March
- 5pm
- entry free!

Register on Allevents.in (check out the link in our bio)

What started with the simple joy of sharing stories with children every month at different locations in Mumbai in 2014, has evolved over the years into a variety of meaningful learning engagements and experiences for all ages, the centre of which continues to remain storytelling and drama based methodology.

Our scope of work now includes,
✨Year-long drama programmes (in school & after school activities)
✨Holiday workshops at schools, residences, and centres across the country
✨Curriculum design and teacher training programmes to incorporate this pedegogy within the everyday practices in the classroom
✨Performances for special events for corporates and individuals
✨Conceptualising, choreographing and directing annual school productions
✨Specialised Workshops on executing specific teaching objectives within the syllabus

We began with 'The Crazy Adventures of Pippi Longstocking' in a tiny studio in Juhu, and go back to it for our 10th year celebrations at the beautiful in Bangalore!
Life has surely come a full circle for us 🌷

So grateful to all the parents, teachers, schools leaders, colleagues, mentors, festival organisers who believed in us and helped us reach this milestone.

Thank you for planting the seeds and being so inspiring always ❤️

10/09/2023

Our hearts are full...❤️✨
Thank you for the love!
To all the little people and their adults who came to watch the magic of The Land of Mea Lilo and made it another sold out show for us at the beautiful
Our super team with .antony.sequeira on live music and sound,
on lights,
for all kinds of support and tech advice,
as our production manager
❤️


Tinaz, Mr Kale, Mr Gawde, Suresh, Sandeep and soooo many others working behind the scenes at the NCPA, offering all their support and saying 'YES, LET'S!' to us with open hearts ✨

Till we meet again!!

With gratitude,
Mea & Lilo 👭

17/08/2023

'To continue to teach well, one must always continue to learn.'
It was incredible to enter the learning space for a workshop titled 'STAY IN TOUCH' designed by the talented and for the .space
It helped us to explore the idea of communication through the sense of touch and not words for a change. It opened our minds to endless possibilities on how communication can go far beyond what we know of it, and we can't wait to take it back to our classrooms too.

Thank you Shruti and Mellita for this experience ❤️

Shruti also runs her own company called which has a very exciting line up of 'work in progress' performances of contemporary dances called VIEWPOINT coming up on 2nd September .studios ✨

11/07/2023

The Small Tales Dream team at our NCPA showcase 🎉
Thank you and for joining us and helping the learners do their best! 🌷

And post show hangouts at US club 🍀

10/07/2023

Look who came to work with Mea & Lilo today!
The wonderfully talented helped us rediscover our characters and brought out nuances within the narrative to make it an even more exciting and immersive experience for the audiences ❤️

Thank you Emily for your love and generosity and helping us take our performance to the next level. 🌷

'THE LAND OF MEA LILO' coming to Aha! Children's Theatre Festival by next week in Ahemdabad and Bangalore!!

01/07/2023

So excited to share the spotlight with these amazing and accomplished women at the The Drama School, Mumbai - India.
The DSM Mela brings you a very unique and relevant conversation in today's theatre practices -

CAREERS OFF-STAGE

Join us in the discussion on alternative career opportunities in the field of theatre

Date - 1st July, 2023
Time - 2:30 pm to 5 pm
Venue - Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh, Charni Road
( https://lnkd.in/d27UN_th)

Limited Seats, Sign up here ⬇️
https://lnkd.in/dWRf9wek

Note - This conversation is free and open to all. You need not be related to DSM to register.

For any queries,
Contact - 7057068462
Mayuri Ravindra


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Careers off Stage - An all female panelists. A talk on taking theatre across verticals. What are you waiting for? Registrations closing soon! Register now (Link in bio) . . . .

19/06/2023

How exciting to be performing next door to 's Xenos!!
Make it a double bill for yourself and your child on Sunday, 25th June with both of us!!
5pm - The Land of Mea Lilo
6pm - Xenos
It will definitely be a Sunday to remember!!


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Another week of fantastic shows await at the NCPA 🎉
Here’s your guide to 👉

Be it opera or documentaries, live theatre or recitals, we have something for you! Add to that some interesting workshops, and to top it all off, an internationally acclaimed artiste presents his last solo work as a dancer 🤩✨

Book now on or click the link in bio!

11/06/2023

What a delightful Sunday morning with our COMIC CREATORS from around the world!! 🥸🥳

You know you're doing it right when the mums think that the kids wouldn't do a class on a Sunday morning BUT ALL OF THEM convince them otherwise and turn up!! 🤩

I really wish the world was ruled by these kind compassionate children!

We spent the last five days creating unique comic books with plotlines covering a range of themes like animal adoptions, bullying, sibling relationship dynamics, friendships, global warming, and World Peace!

A wonderful way to explore their imagination and share their ideas by learning about

🪄 illustration designs,
🌻 creating characters,
🎐 doodles,
🎭 dialogue writing,
🎙️improvisation,
🪟storyboarding and
👩🏽‍🎨presentation skills.

The best way to spend summer vacations isn't it!?
And for us to hear these words from them before signing off - "WE WILL MISS YOU!!"

If you'd like to enroll your child for the next batch, or want us to conduct this for the next play date, DM us and we'll make it happen!

08/06/2023

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We are all storytellers, weaving the tapestry of our experiences 🧶

As part of the I Have A Voice Festival 2023, we are playing host to The Art of Storytelling workshop by Priyanka Babbar💜

This session will teach children all the secrets of making their stories exciting and entertaining. How to act like different characters by changing your voice, body and expressions; how to find ways to interact with the audience and have them remember your stories using sounds and rhymes - all this and more 🐳

When?
June 13, 2023. 12:30PM to 1:30PM

Where?
Zoom

Age group?
8 to 16 years

RSVP link in bio☝️

Priyanka Babbar is a workshop leader, theatre director, performer, drama-based educator and storyteller specialising in children and corporate theatre productions. She is the founder-director of the Small Tales Academy () and has conducted over 500 workshops, training programmes and performances for young people and educators at schools, NGOs and various organisations across the world over the last 10 years.

04/06/2023

Small Tales Academy bringing an exciting workshop for the summers from the comfort of your home!

• 5th June to 9th June
• 11:30am to 1pm
• for 8 to 12 yr olds

This Comic book writing workshop will immerse young minds into the world of storytelling through illustrations and creative writing. Through the workshop, kids learn how to create their own characters, develop storylines, and draw comic strips with simple illustrative techniques. It is a perfect platform for kids to explore their passion for writing and drawing and develop essential skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. The kids will walk away with their own unique comic book creation, igniting a love for storytelling that can last a lifetime.

Check out the booking link for details!

https://allevents.in/mumbai/80003472143478

27/03/2023

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08/03/2023

Teachers, parents let's be mindful!

This Women's Day let us strive to promote gender equality in our classrooms and break the gender stereotypes for our children.
Happy Women's Day

08/03/2023

So excited to share our most loved workshops with the students and their buddies at Little Angels' International School !!
Having conducted these at schools across the city in the last few years, some if them being American School of Bombay, Mt Litera School International, Aditya Birla World Academy to name a few, its lovely to open these to the young learners .sion !
Workshops for 4 to 12 yr olds
over three Saturdays
-18th March
- 25th March
- 1st April
All details and booking link - https://allevents.in/mumbai/small-tales-academy-at-little-angels-international-school/80001716367996?ref=popup-sharing-modal