FEAST Olio - Adults: 4 women from different generations & cultures come together to bring you 4 stories about freedom & womanhood, woven in one traditional tale. Regardless of the thousands of miles between them, they share their dreams, fears, strengths & happiness through "The Beyoutiful She Turtle".
Lavanya Prasad - Bangalore, India
An electrical engineer turned storyteller. Lavanya believes that she makes better connections with stories than electrical wires. She loves to incorporate the Indian classical & folk elements of music & dance into her telling styles.
Ayushi Agrawal - Varanasi, India
Ayushi has been singing & dancing since childhood. Storytelling came naturally as an adult. She works at a Krishnamurti school. Online telling helps her reach families far & wide.
Valentina Ortiz - Mexico
Valentina Ortiz speaks the ancient Aztec words as well as the modern stories of Mexico. An actress, a musician & a storyteller, she takes her stories to schools, assembly halls, parks & theatres. She tells multilingually, Spanish, Nahuatl, English, French. Besides stories, her passion is percussion instruments; she has been a drummer & composer for 30+ yrs.
Rona Mentari - Indonesia
Rona loves telling stories through her one-of-a-kind storytelling performance, in which she uses traditional Indonesian techniques & her small guitar. Her passion and vision are to spread goodness & joy through storytelling.