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Kiran Singh Sirah

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

Kiran Singh Sirah
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Johnson City, TN, USA
Speaking Fee Speaking Fee:
Live Event: $10,000 - $20,000
Virtual Event: $5,000 - $10,000
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Civil Rights, Culture, Inspirational, Motivational, Poetry, Social Activism, Social Justice, Storytelling, TED, World Affairs
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Kiran Singh Sirah Biography

Kiran Singh Sirah is an award-winning storytelling artist, folklorist, arts thought leader, and past President of the International Storytelling Center. For more than two decades, Kiran has established award-winning arts, cultural, and human rights initiatives in numerous countries. These programs have received recognition from UNESCO, the White House, the United Nations, and the European Commission. He has spoken at the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, the American Public Health Association, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Pentagon, the US State Department, and numerous world peace, arts, and culture assemblies.

In 2015, he was invited to the White House in support of storytelling efforts for national grassroots peacebuilding efforts. A former advisory member to UNESCO Scotland and a Rotary World Peace Fellow, he develops articles, toolkits, and talks on storytelling and creative approaches to peacebuilding in communities around the globe. Kiran has been a thought leader on projects with the Smithsonian, the League of American Orchestras, Google Arts & Culture, Dollywood, the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, the British Council, the Library of Congress, NASA, the National Endowments for Arts & Humanities, and special arts and peacebuilding collaborations by invitation of Yo-Yo Ma, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, and Dolly Parton.

In 2017, he was one seven people worldwide selected to receive the “Champion of Peace” award at Rotary International Day at the United Nations and was recently nominated for his work to receive a National Education Association Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights and Civil Rights award.

Kiran is the Creative Lead for Storytelling: A Gift of Hope, a project that harnesses the art of storytelling to create healing and justice spaces to build dialogue, and change for communities, on their own terms. The initiative builds on decades of lived, researched, and tested approaches that leverages stories as humanity’s birthright to build a socially just present and future world.

Kiran also serves in advisory roles as Senior Fellow for the Alliance for Peacebuilding, USA Ambassador for Generations for Peace, Executive Board of American Folklore Society.

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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

  • Kiran Singh Sirah | Smithsonian Folklife Festival
    Kiran Singh Sirah | Smithsonian Folklife Festival
    In daily sessions at the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall, folklorist and past president of the International Storytelling...
  • Storytelling: A Peaceful Power | Kiran Singh Sirah | TEDxNashville
    Storytelling: A Peaceful Power | Kiran Singh Sirah | TEDxNashville
    As president of the International Storytelling Center, Kiran Singh Sirah is very much tapped into the power that stories have to change the world. In...
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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, Karen Palmer, Dr. Bernice King, Daymond John and Peter Diamandis. 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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