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Old Deccan Tales - A storytelling performance by Gauri Raje

  • Woodlands Community Meeting Room 66 Ashley Street Glasgow, Scotland, G3 6HW United Kingdom (map)

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.

 

 

 

 

Later Event: October 29
Anti-Racist Community Library