Logon Ka FolkLog | Festivals From India

Launched in March 2020, Logon Ka FolkLog is an online storytelling festival that’s staged every few months on Facebook and Instagram. The festival aims to celebrate and showcase Indian parables, folk tales and indigenous forms of storytelling in languages such as Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Rajasthani, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.

It is an effort to create a caste, class and gender-neutral space for the country’s folk artists and provide them with a global online presence. Oggu Katha from Andra Pradesh, Ojapali from Assam and Rajasthani puppetry are among the storytelling styles that have been presented at the event at which performers from Argentina, Mexico, New Zealand, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have also participated.

Actors Adil Hussain, Danish Husain and Indira Varma, radio jockey Mir and storyteller Jan Blake are among those who have narrated tales in previous editions of Logon Ka FolkLog, the fifth and most recent instalment of which was held in January 2022.

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Age: Open to all

Hosting Type: Digital

Frequency: Many times a year

Genre: Folk Arts

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About Project FolkLog

Project FolkLog

Project FolkLog, which organises the Logon Ka FolkLog festival, was initiated in 2015 by Vandana Pant, the director and founder of video production service Folklogue Studios, to archive the rich tradition of oral storytelling in India. Project FolkLog has been collecting, translating, documenting, reimagining and archiving folk tales and performative storytelling forms from across the country. With the assistance of a grant from the British Council in 2019, it has filmed and documented folk forms across several rural areas. The result is an archive of more than 370 such recordings. Also, in association with British Council, the organisation helmed the Folk Connect fellowship, a one-of-its-kind digital residency programme for artists in India and the UK. Project Folklog has conducted storytelling workshops for several educational institutions such as the Indian Institute of Art and Design, College of Arts, Prakriti and Shiv Nadar School and presented performances of traditional artforms such as Oggu Katha and Phad painting at events like the Kolkata Book Fair.

Contact Details

Website

https://www.folklog.com/

Mail ID

folkloguestudios@gmail.com

Address

C-110
Sector 26
Noida 201301
Gautam Buddh Nagar
Uttar Pradesh

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