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KAMINI RAMACHANDRAN<br />
<strong>Storyteller</strong><br />
MoonShadow Stories<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |
<strong>About</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Storyteller</strong>: <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong><br />
Background<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is one of few contemporary storytellers who experienced a master-and-apprentice method of<br />
inheriting her repertoire of stories from her grandfather. It became her aim to keep her grandfather’s craft<br />
alive. In 2004, she cofounded MoonShadow Stories to revive and preserve the waning art of the oral<br />
narrative tradition. <strong>Kamini</strong> is the artistic force behind MoonShadow Stories, one that works to demystify<br />
the prevailing perception that storytelling was limited to reading aloud from a book, meant only for<br />
children, solely practiced in libraries and schools, a craft that anyone could pick up at will.<br />
Expertise & Experience<br />
MoonShadow Stories organizes storytelling performances and workshops for both adults and children.<br />
MoonShadow Stories provides customized storytelling training, content creation, publications and<br />
research advice for private organizations and government entities, educational and commercial<br />
institutions, literary and storytelling festivals, counselling and therapeutic agencies.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong>’s craft has taken her far afield from a sitting at her grandfather’s feet as he told a story. She has<br />
performed at schools, community centres, libraries, arts venues, concert halls, studios, restaurants, lofts,<br />
parks, in the jungle, in tents, on stages, inside a giant inflatable fish, homes, temples and churches,<br />
rooftops, amphitheatres, outdoors, in castles, malls, museums, galleries and more. She is also the first<br />
storyteller to organize dinner theatre storytelling in Singapore.<br />
Credentials<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is a veteran Singapore storyteller with deep knowledge and training in her field. She is a fellow of<br />
the Royal Society of Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in English Language & Literature (Hons) from the<br />
University of Reading, Berkshire UK and a Master’s degree in Arts Pedagogy & Practice from<br />
Goldsmith’s, University of London UK. She also holds a Human Subjects Research Professional<br />
Certification from CITI University Miami. Her Master’s dissertation covered her own teaching practice<br />
and her final study examined Modelling through Exemplar Videos as a Tool for Enhancing the Scale of Authenticity<br />
in Performance Storytelling.<br />
She is the founding director of non-profit arts organisation <strong>The</strong> Storytelling Centre Ltd that fosters and<br />
advances the art of storytelling through the Young <strong>Storyteller</strong>s Mentorship Programme and other<br />
activities. She is also creative producer of StoryFest: International Storytelling Festival Singapore that<br />
showcases the best of artistic and applied storytelling globally.<br />
A Professional Member and founding member of the Storytelling Association (Singapore) she served as a<br />
four-term President from 2008 to 2012 and as Vice President from 2012 to 2017.<br />
She has written numerous articles on storytelling for local newspapers and magazines and been<br />
interviewed and featured by both Singapore and foreign media.<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |
Heritage & Culture<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is known for her retellings of traditional oral narratives for contemporary audiences. She is<br />
acclaimed for her work in alliance with museums and galleries. She has told stories in nearly all the main<br />
museums in Singapore from National Museum Singapore, Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore Art<br />
Museum, <strong>The</strong> Peranakan Museum, Reflections at Bukit Chandu, Old Ford Factory, Singapore Philatelic<br />
Museum, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall to the Indian Heritage Centre. She was also the first storyteller to<br />
perform outdoors at Gardens By <strong>The</strong> Bay in 2012 for their opening celebrations. <strong>Kamini</strong> has held<br />
residencies at <strong>The</strong> Art Science Museum, National Museum of Singapore and currently at the National<br />
Gallery Singapore from Aug 2016 – Feb 2018.<br />
She was part of the Indian Heritage Centre’s opening celebrations with Folktales of India, and Folktales of<br />
Singapura for SG50, and at the launch of Children’s Season 2016 with Amazing Animal Tales. She was<br />
commissioned by Art Walk Little India 2016 to promote the Little India precinct through art. She<br />
produced Temple Tales where she told stories from Hindu mythology inside the Sri Veeramakaliamman<br />
Temple followed by a group activity in garland weaving. She also guided the audience on a mini-tour of<br />
the temple and continued her story at different sites within the temple. For AWLI 2017 she returned with<br />
the sell-out series <strong>The</strong> Flickering Flame where she performed Indian folktales in an unused shophouse. She<br />
will return for her third edition of AWLI 2018 exploring the theme of Urban Myths for her performances.<br />
Recently she shared the story of <strong>The</strong> Ramayana accompanied by an exhibition of related artefacts from<br />
her private collection for A Lighter Side of History at the National Museum Singapore with A Deepavali Tale:<br />
A <strong>Storyteller</strong>’s Private Collection. She will be conducting a series of family audience storytelling from Nov<br />
2017 to Feb 2018 for NMS’s Witness to War special exhibition on World War II with oral history tales<br />
from a child’s wartime perspective.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> has conducted workshops for the Hindu Endowment Board, the Islamic Council of Singapore<br />
(MUIS), and produced Stories of Faith as part of WSD 2014. Through her repertoire of sacred stories,<br />
wisdom tales and teaching tales from Asia she has been able to apply storytelling in communities and<br />
education.<br />
Besides performing traditional tales, <strong>Kamini</strong> has conducted workshops and training sessions for National<br />
Heritage Board, Asian Civilizations Museum, Preservations of Monuments Board, Friends of the<br />
Museum and Raffles Institution Monument Ambassadors sharing her expertise in site-specific, objectbased<br />
and in-institution storytelling for guides, docents and programmers.<br />
She was storyteller-in-residence conducting family audience storytelling tours for Stories in Art at the<br />
National Gallery Singapore in the second half of 2016 focusing on the South-east Asia and Singapore<br />
galleries. She continues her residency until 2018 February where she performed amongst Yayoi Kusama’s<br />
installations and the Impressionists paintings of the Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from <strong>The</strong> Musee<br />
D’Orsay special exhibition.<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |
Performance Storytelling<br />
MoonShadow Stories pioneered performance storytelling and storytelling for adult audiences in<br />
Singapore. Through rigorous programming that started at <strong>The</strong> Substation (with 7 thematic performances<br />
of 3-nights each in 2005) focusing on Storytelling for Adults, to producing a collaboration of oral<br />
storytelling and gamelan musicians in Archipelago: South East Asian Island Stories & Music, MoonShadow<br />
Stories has grown to become a household name for performance storytelling in Singapore and globally.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> works closely with <strong>The</strong> Esplanade on programmes for children’s storytelling and has been<br />
resident storyteller for Octoburst Children’s Festival from 2012 – 2014, commissioned twice for Kalaa<br />
Utsavam Indian Arts Festival for Forest Fables: Animals of Mischief (2013) and Hanuman: <strong>The</strong> Tale Behind the<br />
Name (2015) and is a regular storyteller at PIP’s PLAYbox since its inception in early 2016. Hanuman was<br />
selected by Out of the Box Festival for Children to be showcased in Brisbane, Australia in June 2016.<br />
Her longstanding relationship with <strong>The</strong> Arts House is multi-layered with her roles in SISF where TAH<br />
has been venue supporter during her three year term as Artistic Director, and as venue partner for<br />
MoonShadow Stories’ annual World Storytelling Day productions for the last 5 editions. <strong>The</strong> Arts House<br />
has also engaged <strong>Kamini</strong> for their annual anniversary celebration’s family programming, for Is <strong>The</strong> Book<br />
Better Than <strong>The</strong> Movie, their Silver Writing programme for seniors, and Text in the City literary outreach.<br />
For TAH’s 10th anniversary <strong>Kamini</strong> was commissioned to create Night Walk With <strong>The</strong> <strong>Storyteller</strong> – an<br />
interactive tour of <strong>The</strong> Arts House that took audiences into previously inaccessible spaces like the garden,<br />
the chamber behind <strong>The</strong> Chamber and the rooftop. She told stories that were site-specific combined with<br />
sensorial experiences that included food, drink, scent and ambience.<br />
Currently she is working on her site-specific performance for the Singapore International Festival of Arts<br />
2018 (SIFA) based on Monuments of Singapore.<br />
This long term relationship continues with <strong>The</strong> Arts House as co-presenter for StoryFest Singapore.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is also a content provider for commercial entities that require storytelling programming. Mainly<br />
for children’s storytelling, she has worked with public spaces such as <strong>The</strong> Forum Shopping Mall, Timbre<br />
Group, Cluny Court, Elephant & Coral (Mandarin Gallery), Fraser Suites, City Square Mall, Refinery<br />
Concepts Pte Ltd and PICO Art International for Marina Bay Carnival.<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |
Artistic Collaborations<br />
In addition to Singapore arts institutions, <strong>Kamini</strong> has partnered with international talents. She has codirected<br />
and co-performed with international storytellers like Japanese rakugo storyteller Shinoharu<br />
Tatekawa, British Indian storyteller Peter Chand for Twist in the Sari (performed in Belgium and Wales)<br />
Javanese dalang Bapak Midiyanto, Thai-Lao storyteller Dr.Wajuppa Tossa, Singapore storyteller Verena<br />
Tay and many more. Recently she collaborated with Eqyptian actress Lamya Tawfik in UAE as her<br />
Arabic translator for bilingual performances at Tales On <strong>The</strong> Island festival in Sharjah.<br />
Storytelling and the Other Arts<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> has collaborated with artists and arts groups from other disciplines to blend the beauty and magic<br />
of storytelling to create inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary works.<br />
For the Patron of the Arts 2017 awards night, she was commissioned by NAC to direct the evening’s<br />
performances. She collaborated with <strong>The</strong> TENG Ensemble musicians, Riduan Zalani and percussion<br />
group Drum Gaia, and kathak dancers from Apsaras Arts to present three Asian stories.<br />
She has worked with diverse visual artists like sand artist Lawrence Koh, charcoal artist Tang Ling-Nah,<br />
water colourist Regina Tuazon, Deon Phua from collective Tell Your Children TYC, wood craftsman<br />
Lloyd Chia, illustrators Yante Ismail and Sumaya Mahadevan, textile designer Maria Walf, legendary batik<br />
artist Sadali Musbah, balloon sculptor Lily Tan, graphic designers and illustrators from Octopus Ink and<br />
Qu’est-ce Que C’est Design and art directors Charles Rezandi & Christopher Purnawan from C+C &Co<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> has been involved in collaborations with musicians as early as 2005 with gamelan orchestra<br />
Gamelan Singa Nglaras from NUS Centre for the Arts under ethnomusicologist Dr. Thomas Manhart’s<br />
direction for MoonShadow Stories production Archipelago: South East Asian Island Stories held in the<br />
cloisters of <strong>The</strong> Armenian Church. She has continued to collaborate with sound artist Bani Haikal,<br />
percussionist Syed Ibrahim, keyboardist Serene Tan, flautist Raghavendran Rajasekaran, tabla player<br />
Kumaran Sinniah, Chennai based piano virtuoso Anil Srinivasan, guitar maestro Rick Smith and multiinstrumentalist<br />
Derrick Tay.<br />
She was narrator for musical ensemble Promise –Jazz on Strings at <strong>The</strong> Esplanade Recital Studio where she<br />
wrote and narrated original short stories inspired by the various pieces of music. She performed alongside<br />
violinists Yap Shu Mei and Yong Kia Lin, percussionist Pablo Calzado, cellist Robert Choi, double bassist<br />
Felix Phang, violist Lim Chun, vocalist Richard Jackson and composer guitarist Rick Smith. She played<br />
the narrator’s role for Yong Siew Toh Conservatory’s L’Histoire Du Soldat (by Stravinsky) under conductor<br />
Adrian Chiang. She was also the narrator for <strong>The</strong> Philharmonic Winds first ever Fun With Music family<br />
concert held at <strong>The</strong> Esplanade Concert Hall where she told the story of Alex and the Phantom Band (by<br />
David Maslanka) under conductor Leonard Tan. In 2017 she collaborated with conductor Moses Gay and<br />
the Singapore Chinese Orchestra blending traditional Chinese music and Chinese folktales told in English<br />
especially for young listeners below 6, Concert for Little Tots - Tales & Legends.<br />
She was also narrator for <strong>The</strong> Necessary Stage’s play Gitanjali: I feel the Earth Move held at SOTA <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
where she narrated as Kadambari for Bani Haikal’s Tagore. For <strong>The</strong> Substation’s 25th anniversary she<br />
was asked to be the narrator for the audio tour Hearing Things: Ghosts of <strong>The</strong> Substation compiled by Tania<br />
De Rozario. She has also collaborated as a narrator with bharathanatyam dancer Priyalatha Naidu.<br />
As early as 2006 she collaborated with renowned wayang kulit dalang (shadow theatre puppeteer) Bapak<br />
Midiyanto from University of California, Berkeley where she was the co-storyteller translating into<br />
English. She worked alongside Dr. Thomas Manhart of Artyfakt on this project which was showcased by<br />
NAFA’s Music Department.<br />
For her Kalaa Utsavam commission in 2013 Forest Fables she collaborated with sand artist Lawrence Koh<br />
to compose a sequence of live-drawing visual images as she told the stories to audiences aged 4 – 7 years.<br />
She also worked with three accompanying musicians (Ragha, Serene and Kumaran) for music, sound<br />
effects and foley. In 2015 for her second commission Hanuman, she coordinated three classical Indian<br />
dancers, Ponnamma Devaiah, Minal Merai and Ramassamy to dramatize through dance her narration of<br />
the story. Pianist Anil Srinivasan and tabla player Krishna Kishore accompanied with live music. <strong>The</strong><br />
performance was illuminated through Regina Tuazon’s water colour sketches.<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |
Writers, Books & Reading<br />
Publishers, authors and literary festivals have sought her skills in adapting and performing text-based<br />
works to new audiences. She has worked closely with writer Felix Cheong and publisher Ethos Books on<br />
his book launch for Singapore Siu Dai: <strong>The</strong> SG Conversation in a Cup as well as for Singapore Siu Dai 3: <strong>The</strong> SG<br />
Conversation Dabao!, with Tulika Press for their local book promotion, the book launch of A Monsoon Feast<br />
as well as S. R. Nathan & S. Rajaratnam’s books promotions. She was asked by MOE to adapt and<br />
perform S. R. Nathan’s biography based on the book he authored 50 Stories from My Life, for the<br />
Singapore Teacher’s Academy Conference. A regular at Singapore Writers Festival, she is often asked to<br />
perform readings and dramatizations of selected writers’ works.<br />
In 2011 she was approached by the Singapore Writers Festival organizers to adapt and retell <strong>The</strong> Tiger<br />
from writer and former MP for Tampines Ms. Irene Ng’s book <strong>The</strong> Short Stories and Radio Plays of<br />
S.Rajaratnam. She performed the piece at <strong>The</strong> International Summit of <strong>The</strong> Book at Raffles Hotel where<br />
Prof. Tommy Koh called her ‘Singapore’s most mesmerizing storyteller’.<br />
In early 2017 she released a series of curated videos that feature her reading aloud from selected translated<br />
texts by local authors. This project was part of the inaugural Buy SingLit Campaign spearheaded by NAC to<br />
promote Singapore books. <strong>The</strong> bilingual videos (Malay and English) are available on her YouTube<br />
channel under ‘A <strong>Storyteller</strong> Reads’.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> has a personal library of approximately three thousand storytelling related books. She is aware<br />
that access to storytelling resources is scarce and that repertoire development is vital for any professional<br />
storyteller. Her Instagram account @kaministoryteller is a curation of her collection of books under<br />
#storytellerslibrary available for public education.<br />
Storytelling Far and Wide<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> has been invited as a featured storyteller, speaker and workshop leader at all the leading European<br />
storytelling festivals: Scottish International Storytelling Festival (2010) and (2017), Federation of<br />
European Storytelling Conference (2013), Festivale Internazionale di Storytelling Roma in Italy (2013),<br />
Festival at the Edge UK (2013), Alden Biesen International Storytelling Festival in Belgium (2014),<br />
Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival in Wales UK (2016), Sharjah International<br />
Storytelling Festival UAE (2017) and the Hans Christina Andersen International Storytelling Days<br />
Festival in Denmark (2017). She has also been featured at the Sydney International Storytelling<br />
Conference (2012) and Chennai Storytelling Festival (2013).<br />
Her participation in the Asian Congress of <strong>Storyteller</strong>s harks back to 2003 culminating in her role as<br />
consultant for the inaugural Singapore International Storytelling Festival in 2006. She has been a key<br />
player in SISF as a content provider, consultant, storytelling artist as well as Artistic Director from 2012 –<br />
2014.<br />
She has also been invited to share her work at other festivals like the Singapore Writers Festival since<br />
2009, Asian Festival of Children’s Content, Art Walk Little India, ASEAN Puppetry Festival, Causeway<br />
Exchange, George Town Festival in Penang, Philippines International Literary Festival, <strong>The</strong> Cooler<br />
Lumpur Festival in KL and Bookaroo Children’s Literature Festival in Sarawak.<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |
World Storytelling Day Singapore<br />
MoonShadow Stories has produced World Storytelling Day in Singapore every March since 2005.<br />
Through the WSD platform she has provided public performing opportunities for local storytellers as<br />
well as her Young <strong>Storyteller</strong>s. WSD is her annual platform to present new solo works to continue<br />
developing her artistic repertoire.<br />
Storytelling Mentor<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> has taught her course <strong>The</strong> Storytelling Intensive to Diploma in Performance students at LASALLE<br />
College of the Arts for the last 6 years. She is also the director for the students assessed final performance<br />
Stories Through the Mind’s Eye and Moving Tongues since 2012. She is the only storytelling artist in Asia<br />
teaching storytelling as a performing art form in an arts education institution of higher learning. She<br />
teaches storytelling to BA Arts Management, MA Art <strong>The</strong>rapy, BA Fashion and BA Animation at<br />
LASALLE. She has also lectured the Communications Module for BA Arts Management focusing on<br />
semiotics, argumentation and intercultural dialogue in the arts.<br />
Her mentoring also encompasses intermediate storytellers and members of Story Lab and the Storytelling<br />
Association (Singapore). Through Verena Tay’s Beyond Storytelling 101 workshops, the MoonShadow Stories<br />
Alumni Shows have supported and platformed numerous local storytellers. Story Lab is a special interest<br />
group that developed out of these BS101 workshops and Alumni Shows. <strong>The</strong> pioneering Storytelling for<br />
Adults performances at <strong>The</strong> Substation featured a guest storyteller for each event. MoonShadow Stories<br />
was instrumental in mentoring and platforming the local storytelling community in performing for adult<br />
audiences.<br />
Storytelling Apprentice Programme<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> also mentors Young <strong>Storyteller</strong>s by providing them with real world work experience as well as<br />
platforming them through MoonShadow Stories productions. Her students have performed for Singapore<br />
Writers Festival, at <strong>The</strong> Arts House, for commercial clients such as Timbre Group and Cluny Court, for<br />
pre-schoolers at ECDA’s President’s Challenge Start Small, Dream Big 2016 initiative for Singapore<br />
Kindness Movement and also alongside her at WSD performances. She also spearheaded Mother Tongue<br />
Tales for SISF 2014 featuring three students who performed in Malay, Tamil and Chinese.<br />
In 2017 the inaugural Young <strong>Storyteller</strong>s Mentorship Project under NAC’s NOISE took place between<br />
March – June culminating in a graduation showcase A Tapestry of Tales during StoryFest 2017 featuring<br />
eight emerging talents.<br />
Terrific Tales featuring Young <strong>Storyteller</strong>s is a weekly Sunday programme at children’s arts space, <strong>The</strong><br />
Artground, targeted at young audiences 3 to 6 years. This ongoing programme provides a rigorous and<br />
professional platform for the development of emerging talent.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> coordinates customized storytelling performances featuring Young <strong>Storyteller</strong>s for various arts<br />
events such as Tanjong Goodman open houses etc.<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |
Storytelling and Education<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is a respected and devoted teaching artist who has presented and performed at numerous local<br />
and international schools in Singapore and overseas. She is comfortable and experienced in sharing stories<br />
to all ages ranging from early childhood, primary, to secondary and all the way to tertiary level.<br />
She has worked with Tampines Junior College as workshop leader and judge for the S.Rajaratnam<br />
Storytelling Competition from 2012 to 2015. She has also trained GCE A’ Level <strong>The</strong>atre Studies and Drama<br />
students from Anglo Chinese Junior College in storytelling.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is an accredited storytelling artist under the National Arts Council’s Arts Education Programme<br />
(AEP). She offers special storytelling programmes for the preschool sector. For SWF’s schools outreach<br />
programme Words Go Round 2015 she had the most number of bookings spanning preschools to<br />
primary schools.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> has presented and performed at the Malaysia International Conference on English Language<br />
Teaching (MICELT), International Drama In Education Research Institutes Conference (IDIERI),<br />
UNESCO-NIE CARE, Singapore Teachers Academy Conference, International Summit of <strong>The</strong> Book,<br />
MCYS Parenting Seminar, NTUC ESU Early Childhood Appreciation Day, NTUC Educational Services<br />
Union Jamboree, International English Language Academic Heptathlon and is a regular presenter at<br />
ECDA’s Early Childhood Conference. She was also an invited speaker at TEDx United World College<br />
SEA.<br />
Recently she was a keynote speaker for the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) 31 st Annual<br />
Conference ‘<strong>The</strong> Art of Storytelling’ and also the 6th Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) Rector’s Conference<br />
where she spoke about storytelling as a teaching tool for educators.<br />
She is also a Pathfinder under the Ministry of Education’s new volunteer initiative to link industry experts<br />
to selected schools. <strong>Kamini</strong> has shared her skills and experience as a Partner in Education for the Applied<br />
Learning Programme for English Language at Mayflower Secondary School and Juying Secondary School.<br />
She has also worked closely with the Ministry of Education’s Character and Citizenship Education Board<br />
to conduct storytelling training sessions for department heads.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is a seasoned artist educator qualified with an MA Arts Pedagogy & Practice and with training<br />
from <strong>The</strong> Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts (Virginia), <strong>The</strong> Kennedy Centre’s<br />
(Washington D.C.) Arts Integration programme for teaching artists and advanced workshops with Eric<br />
Booth.<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> was a panellist for the NAC Children’s Art Centre Assessment Panel.<br />
She will be part of the Gifting Every Child workshop in Edinburgh for the festival’s Education Day at the<br />
National Library Scotland.<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |
Applied Storytelling<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is an advocate of applied storytelling, especially in the community and has taken workshops in<br />
Time Slips Creative Storytelling with Dr. Anne Bastings.<br />
She was a joint keynote presenter at the IAEVG Conference 2010 in Bangalore where she collaborated<br />
with clinical psychologist Dr. G. Arulmani in storytelling and counselling. This translated into a joint<br />
master class Touching Tales: Storytelling as a Culturally Resonant Counselling Technique for SISF 2011. She also<br />
co-authored the chapter Mind the Twist in the Tale: <strong>The</strong> Story as a Channel for Culture-Resonant Career Counselling<br />
in the Handbook of Career Development: International Perspectives by Springer International.<br />
Storytelling in the Community<br />
A regular storyteller for NAC’s Arts For All , Arts @ Work and Arts in the Neighbourhood programming, and<br />
the Silver Writing Programme, she is a seasoned community artist with experience in libraries and community<br />
centres.<br />
She also collaborates with independent organizations to bring quality storytelling and literacy awareness to<br />
less privileged audiences. Through the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation’s More Than Words programme she has<br />
reached out to care centres and children’s homes. Through the Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund<br />
she has reached out to Ang Mo Kio Family Services centre.<br />
Storytelling at Work<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is also experienced and skilled in facilitating customized training for the corporate and non-arts<br />
sector, having conducted storytelling workshops for organizations like Keppel Corporation, Greenology<br />
Pte Ltd and Singapore Human Resources Institute.<br />
Storytelling Coach<br />
Using her artistic experience and education expertise, <strong>Kamini</strong> works with individuals – from the arts as<br />
well as from the corporate sector – to train and instruct in the art of storytelling. Her private clients range<br />
from motivational speakers, facilitators and public speakers who require specific skills development; to<br />
parents, teachers and librarians who wish to learn how to engage children and students; and others who<br />
want to be effective communicators for sales, marketing, pitching and telling a brand story.<br />
Producer<br />
<strong>Kamini</strong> is creative producer of StoryFest: International Storytelling Festival Singapore co-presented by<br />
<strong>The</strong> Storytelling Centre Ltd and <strong>The</strong> Arts House. <strong>The</strong> inaugural edition in June 2017 was an outstanding<br />
success with 9 out of 10 sold out events and 94% house.<br />
She has produced World Storytelling Day in Singapore since 2005 and all of Moonshadow Stories<br />
productions.<br />
| <strong>Kamini</strong> <strong>Ramachandran</strong> | www.moonshadowstories.com | +65 9116 3935 | kamini@moonshadowstories.com |