TITLE
Old Deccan Tales - A storytelling performance by Gauri Raje
WHEN
Sunday 29th October 2023
TIME
11:00am-1:00pm
WHERE
Woodlands Community Meeting Room
COST
Free
MORE INFO
As part of The Big Scottish Story Ripple, storyteller Gauri Raje will tell stories and encourage others to share their own. The festival is inviting communities to do good deeds so ours is offering food and a space for exchange of ideas, perspectives and a sharing of books and stories to nourish wonder
India in the 18th century is a British colony described as ‘the jewel in the crown of Britain’.
A young English girl lives in the Deccan region of middle India with her father, who is an officer in the British army. Every summer, they travel in a caravan to the mountains to escape the heat of the plains. It is a long journey, made by horse and palanquin and too long for the young 11 year old. She has her ayah - her nanny who has wet-nursed her and brought her up since her mother has returned to England. The nanny is a ‘native’. She is ‘dakhani’ - from the Deccan region. She tells stories to the young English girl to keep her occupied on the long march. The girl never forgets them.
A storytelling piece that is a journey across the world of the coloniser and the colonised to find intimacy, wonder and reckonings.
The stories are told in English, Gujarati, Urdu and Marathi - the languages of the Deccan region. The stories are told with an appliqué backdrop created by the rural women in India, musical instruments & some mystery items related to the story for the audience to peruse.
People are invited to bring along their own stories and ideas to share as part of the event. Light refreshments will be provided.
All ages welcome. This event will take place alongside our anti-racist library.
HOW TO BOOK
No need to book, just turn up
This event has been made possible due to the Scottish International Storytelling
Festival’s Big Scottish Story Ripple initiative. The Scottish International
Storytelling Festival (SISF) is organised by Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland
(TRACS) and the Big Scottish story Ripple is supported by The Scottish
Storytelling Forum.