Kiran Singh Sirah

Award-Winning Storyteller, Peacebuilder, Folklorist & Past President of the International Storytelling Center

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Kiran Singh Sirah Biography

Kiran Singh Sirah is an internationally recognized storytelling for peace, human rights, and justice and narrative change industry specialist as well as Past President of the International Storytelling Center, producer of the world-renowned National Storytelling Festival. For more than two decades Singh Sirah helped establish a number of award-winning arts, cultural, and human rights programs in numerous countries. These included community dialogue programs in response to the 9/11 attacks and a number of peacebuilding and conflict resolution initiatives exploring issues of religious, ethnic, and sectarian conflicts in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Colombia, The Middle East and The United States. For ten years he led the International Storytelling Center’s national and global partnerships and helped the institution grow in ways previously unimaginable.

Singh Sirah is a sought-after storytelling thought leader and has spoken at the Smithsonian Institution, the United Nations, the Library of Congress, League of American Orchestra, US State Department, NASA, The Pentagon, The Kennedy Center, the National Parks Service, European Commission and numerous World Peace assemblies.

Singh Sirah is a prolific storytelling champion, speaker and also advises on interdisciplinary approaches to advancing storytelling as a tool for peace and social change with the Pentagon, UNESCO, American Public Health Association, the White House, Google Arts & Culture, Dollywood (by invitation of Her Majesty Dolly Parton.) He has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma and led story circles at the US senate introducing a bipartisan peace initiative, the Ellie Wiesel Genocide and Mass Atrocities Prevention Act, which was eventually signed into US law. In addition Singh Sirah developed a proclamation of storytelling for healing with the City of Charleston following the 2015 massacre at "Mother" Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, mentors national Poetry Out Loud champions and youth peace activists.

In 2017, Singh Sirah was awarded the "Champion of Peace" recognition at the Rotary International ceremony at the United Nations in Geneva and was recently nominated for his storytelling and social justice work to receive a prestigious national educational Martin Luther King Jr. human rights award.

Every keynote lecture, workshop, and program always has two ideas at the fore: global peace and the stories that will get us there. As Kiran says, "Once you understand your own story matters", it’s not a large leap to understand other people’s do, too.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/04/2024.

Kiran Singh Sirah Speaking Topics

  • Storytelling: A Gift of Hope

    Storytelling has tremendous power to transform the way we see ourselves and each other. Kiran Singh Sirah discusses storytelling for community building, and how it can help to build stronger, healthier, more cohesive communities. Sirah discusses storytelling’s unparalleled ability to transform the way we see ourselves and others—how it links us, not just despite our differences, but because of them.

  • Creating Home: Building Community through Storytelling

    Kiran Singh Sirah explores the role of storytelling as a tool for conflict prevention, community development, and social change. Through examples of social justice, race relations, and community cooperation, Sirah explains how personal relationships developed through storytelling can help us frame open and honest dialogue to help build stronger, more cohesive communities.

  • The Transformative Power of Storytelling

    A Social Force for Social Change—Kiran Singh Sirah discusses the power and artistry of storytelling as an ancient art form and as the world's oldest form of communication.

    He also discusses what he describes as one of the greatest community• building tools that we can use to foster, cultivate, and strengthen peace and collaboration in our communities, and will also explore how we might collectively use new storytelling forms in the arenas of peace, health, and community development to help establish a healthier culture.

  • Your Values: Your Impact Your Stories

    How can personal relationships developed through storytelling help us frame discussions aimed at building stronger, more cohesive communities? This talk explores the role of storytelling as a tool to transform what you do every day into stories that help to strengthen and inspire your work and role in building community.

  • Storytelling: A Peaceful Power

    Storytelling has tremendous power to transform the way we see ourselves and each other. Kiran Singh Sirah discusses storytelling for peace and community building, as an ancient art for a modern world, and how it can help to build stronger, healthier, more cohesive communities. Sirah discusses storytelling’s unparalleled ability to transform the way we see ourselves and others—how it links us, not just despite our differences, but because of them.

Kiran Singh Sirah Videos

  • Storytelling as a Sacred Gift: Kiran Singh Sirah
    In daily sessions at the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall, folklorist and past president of the International Storytelling...
  • EPU x ISC - Viewing the South Through 3 Lenses
    At the 2022 National Storytelling Festival, ISC partnered with New Orleans-based nonprofit E Pluribus Unum to create a video series showcasing how...
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Kiran Singh Sirah is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Storytelling: A Gift of Hope, Creating Home: Building Community through Storytelling, The Transformative Power of Storytelling, Your Values: Your Impact Your Stories and Storytelling: A Peaceful Power. The estimated speaking fee range to book Kiran Singh Sirah for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Kiran Singh Sirah generally travels from Johnson City, TN, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Juan Pablo Escobar, Daymond John, Peter Diamandis, Etan Thomas and Bruce George. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Kiran Singh Sirah for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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