Gauri is a storyteller, educator, and workshop facilitator, working with adolescents and adults from multilingual, multicultural, and disadvantaged backgrounds since 2015. Her notable performance projects include directing 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' a collection of stories for adults from around the world translated and told in 3 different Indian languages; 'Badlands'; 'Tales of Exile and Sanctuary'; ‘Tales of Ice and Fire’; ‘Old Deccan Tales’, are some of the other stories performed on different themes. ‘Rewilding Cinderella’was a collaboration with 13 storytellers, musicians and poets who performed at the Brighton Fringe Festival 2022. She is currently collaborating with a Scottish musician on a performance of the Indian epic of ‘Mahabharata’ and its connections to rhythms and stories from Scotland. Her recent under-publication book ‘Cooking Tales’ innovations to Recipes by and Biographies of Asian women in the 1950s has been awarded the Scottish Asian Award under the Spirit of Scotland category. She tells stories regularly at festivals in the UK, Europe, and India, as well as in schools, barns, by rivers, on the land,and in ruins of heritage buildings.
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Web page: https://tracscotland.org/storytellers/gauri-raje/