Kamini Ramachandran

Kamini is Creative Producer of StoryFest Singapore and a self-producing artist working in oral storytelling, literary arts and museum-based programmes.

Through her work in Moonshadow Stories she is known for promoting storytelling for adult audiences. She founded The Storytelling Centre Limited to advance the art of storytelling through the Young Storytellers Mentorship Programme, and recently the Junior Storytellers Mentorship.

Known for her site-specific story-based work, she has produced story tours, story walks and immersive storytelling experiences that activate cultural and heritage spaces. Her SIFA commission ‘The Hidden’ engaged with The Armenian Church heritage monument via indoor and outdoor storytelling; she produced ‘In Search of the Gelam Tree’ combining walking tours, visits to heritage spaces, culminating with a traditional meal; she has designed in-gallery and object-based storytelling programmes for museums like ACM, NMS and IHC, and recently produced ‘Artefacts Alive!’ for Children’s Season 2022. She is currently the storyteller for National Gallery Singapore Children’s Biennale 2021-2022.

Her involvement with ARTWALK Little India spans almost a decade of designing story-based experiences at the Little India precinct, connecting visitors to Indian culture and appreciate the nuances of our multicultural society.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts with a BA (Hons) English Language & Literature from the University of Reading (UK) and a MA Arts Pedagogy & Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). A respected teaching artist, she is a specialist storytelling lecturer for tertiary level programmes in Communications Studies, Arts Management, Art Therapy and Performing Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts. She also designed and has taught the module on ‘Narrative & Storytelling’ for the Expressive Arts Postgraduate Diploma at Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Kamini is the mentor for the Asia-Europe Foundation and CASA-Asia (Spain) Virtual Residency on ‘Arts X Climate Change’; she is also a resource panellist and mentor for NAC and LASALLE Community Arts programmes; as well as a mentor for LASALLE’s Alumni Mentorship Programme.

A Singapore International Foundation Fellow (2022 2023), and an artist at the 136 Goethe Lab residency (2023), her love of stories has seen her expand her practice as story consultant for The Singapore Pavilion at EXPO Dubai 2020, and as guest experience consultant for Avatar - The Experience at Gardens by the Bay.