Since 2006, we have taken up a number of Projects that aimed at a more creative and public forms of engagement. We undertake Projects every year in view of helping us expand our network of storytellers and communities and our outreach initiatives. From unique record-breaking activities to intensive tours, we are exploring our ideas and ways of promoting the disappearing stories cultures yet to be understood closely.

With the success of our first public Project in 2010 - The Great Story Wall - it has opened doors for us to look into various contemporary tools to reach out



to people and communities with the message of storytelling. The Project which resulted in a record-breaking 100 meter long digital artwork on Sikkemese mythology helped us tie with stakeholders, storytellers, youth and media in a very effective way. Through the Project we could reach story enthusiasts across the globe and help revive this dying tradition in the State at the same time.



Shamanic Acoustics brings various shamanic storytelling traditions together. Initiated on 14/10/11, the Project will look at compiling around 12 sessions recorded earlier (and ongoing) by Acoustic Traditional and includes some sessions conducted by Acoustic Traditional itself involing ritual-based hums and music. The project would also work closely with the National Storytelling Tour which will help link with us with other shamans, especially from South India.

The due date for the completion is April 2012 and will be released as an audio DVD. It would be an invaluable addition to the archive that we have taken up in the meantime.

The National Storytelling and Archival Tour is an initiative of Acoustic Traditional to promote and document the rich but disappearing oral history (which includes myths, legends and folktales) of mountain and forest tribal peoples/communities (to include primitive communities) of India. The first attempt of its kind to document myths, legends and stories through audio/visual means, and with a key focus on lesser known communities, the storytelling/archival tour is of critical importance in terms of (1) documenting, through audio/visual recording, the oral traditions of storytelling that are now



either near extinct or being forgotten and (2) reviving interest (within the communities and outside of them) in their traditions of oral storytelling through interactions, creative engagement and active involvement of the storytellers. The tour will include recordings of shamanic storytelling as one key component in the archival process.

For more information on our Projects, please get in touch with our Project Coordinator by visiting our Contacts section.






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