Vayu Naidu
What’s on offer:
MYTHS: Their meaning and making your own stories from them
This creative writing course looks at the theme of world myths that can empower and inspire us to write our own. These myths might be stories you may have heard in childhood, but they gain a new meaning at different stages of life.
The 6 sessions of this course will include:
Understanding 3 powerful myths about life from world cultures
Creating personal stories that reflect these myths
Writing and Telling the myths you have created
Times : Weds - May 26th -July 7th. 6.30 - 8.30 p.m
Cost: £75 (with 10% going to: https://www.villageschoolsnamibia.com/)
There will be 2 subsidised places: one for aspiring writers from a Refugee/Prison background, and one from an African Caribbean/Asian background. All levels are welcome, including beginners.
Email Vayu : vayu@vayunaidu.com
About
Vayu Naidu is a storyteller, performer and writer. Her novels include The Sari of Surya Villas, Sita’s Ascent and Under the Banyan, as well as several collections of children’s stories. Vayu is also credited with coining the term 'performance storytelling' and her stories of Indian and European mythologies have been performed on stages in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe and India. She won the Arts & Humanities award for her teaching of Storytelling at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Her unique style of intercultural storytelling – written and oral – spans diaspora, urban, epic, folk and tribal stories, and is inspired by multiple literary and performance traditions. Determining identity for people who live across cultural borders is a strong feature of her writing. Her work in category A Prisons, with women emerging from domestic violence, and young people has strengthened her belief in the transformative capacity of the Word and the Arts. In 1994 she received a PhD in oral tradition as performance from the University of Leeds. She was awarded an AHRB fellowship from the University of Kent for a project entitled The Presence of Absences: Exploring Technique and Manifestation in the Contemporary Performance Storyteller. Vayu is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. She also lectures at SOAS – CCLPS and is an Associate of the South Asia Institute.
For more information on Vayu, visit: www.vayunaidu.com