Art of Storytelling Workshops
All Tellers
Finding Your Own Voice
This innovative and popular workshop session will focus on the process of building your own "identity" as a storyteller. The featured tellers will create and share their unique perspective on the story "John Henry." They will discuss their methods, techniques and creative motivatioins used in telling the story in their own distinct style.
Saturday, Sept. 11 - 10:00 - 11:30am
Carol Birch
The Whole Story: Using the Imagination to Build Stories
When you find a tale, one goal is tell it as if you were there. This workshop helps storytellers do that – whatever their level. Here are "techniques" that vanish as a teller brings the vividness of personal experience to characters and settings found on the page. Animate stories with a power only you possess - YOU!
Friday, Sept. 10 - 10:00 - 11:30am
Bill Harley
Telling Personal Stories
We all have interesting things happen to us – experiences that would make good stories. But telling a personal story in performance requires more work than just telling what happened. Some thought about theme, plot, setting and character are important to make a personal story mean something to others. In this workshop, Bill will offer some prompts to help you find material for your own stories, and give some insights about how to structure them so they work as performance pieces. He’ll give examples from his work and give you a chance to work on a story of your own.
Friday, Sept. 10 - 2:30 - 4:00am
Charlotte Blake Alston
Rhythm This and Melody That
Rhythm has always been an essential element in African and African American folk traditions including storytelling. As earth dwellers, we interact with and are influenced by rhythm from the moment of our conception. Charlotte shares her cultural rhythmic influences and invites you to explore the application of rhythm, music and song in stories and storytelling performance.
Saturday, Sept. 11 - 12:30 - 2:00am
Willy Claflin
The Rhino and the Valley Girl
Learn how to talk in different voices, and how to use voice to create characters. There will be group exercises in shouting, whining, chirping, whispering, growling and....listening.
Friday, Sept. 10 - 12:30 - 2:00am
To attend any of these events, register HERE.