Storytelling Workshops
April 9 & 23 10am-12pm
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 3
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: APRIL 3
If you’ve got a story to tell (and we all do!), but the thought of telling that story in front of a live audience makes you want to curl up in a fetal position and suck your toes, then help is on the way. We have two optional workshops designed to help you structure and tell your story in the most effective way with the least amount of angst.
Here’s the deal…
Here’s the deal…
Workshop #1: DISCOVERING YOUR STORY
Saturday, April 9 10am-12pm
Saturday, April 9 10am-12pm
- Why storytelling matters
- You have a story:
- Discovering your stories
- Finding the story you want to tell
- Basic Story Structure
- Goal and Obstacle
Workshop #2: BECOMING A STORYTELLER
Saturday, April 23 10am-12pm
Saturday, April 23 10am-12pm
- Interactive exercises to free you up and exercise your creative muscles
- Presentation
- Clear and articulate delivery: voice and diction exercises
- Tricks of the trade:
- Dealing with stage fright
- Operative words
- Vocal technique
- Memorization techniques
- Creative associative thinking (clustering with your pattern mind)
- Concrete details versus abstractions, setting
- Scene
- Character
- Conflict/emotion/stakes
- Coming full circle:
- Resolution
- Landing on the strong (or funny) word/syllable
Meet our Clinicians
Location of workshops
Beggars Table Church and Gallery in the Crossroads
2010 Baltimore
Kansas City, MO
Beggars Table Church and Gallery in the Crossroads
2010 Baltimore
Kansas City, MO
The workshops are designed as a whole and are offered for one registration fee of $50.
The workshops are optional; participation in the storytelling night is not contingent upon registration in the workshops.