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SHARING THE FIRE The Northeast Storytelling Conference 2012 March 16th - 18th 2012 Sovereign Hotel, 1228 Western Avenue, Albany, New York 12203 Workshop Tracks Index
A variety of workshops and showcases will be offered at this conference. All workshops are 90 min and showcases are 60 min unless a showcase is combined with a workshop. Click on any of the links below to see workshop and showcase opportunities that meet your area of interest. or Click here to visit to the complete Conference Overview with Links
Bill Ratner- “ Voiceovers for Storytellers – Find Your Best Storyteller Voice” 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A We discuss methods of seeking employment in voiceovers, producing your own voiceover demos, setting up a home recording studio, and recording a story CD. We practice a vocal warm-up, read voiceover and story text aloud, and address new ways of using your voice in storytelling. Categories- Technology & Business; Performing Skills Levels: All; youth welcome Robert Smyth- “Sound System Basic’s – XRL or 1/4 inch what’s the difference?” 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Being a good performer requires knowing how to work with microphones and a sound system. We will cover the basics of sound reinforcement including microphone types, nomenclature, and how they are best used. There will be time for each participant to work with different microphones, for voice and instruments, and learn about them. Categories- Performing Skills; Technology & Business Levels- All Karen Chace – “Enhance Your Online Presence: Blog It Baby!” 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Even though cyber space is all “a twitter” there are benefits to maintaining your own blog. Blogging is another way to publicize your skills and promote your venues. This is a hands-on workshop. Bring your laptop and leave with the beginnings of your own unique business or educational blog. Catagory-Technology & Business Levels: beginning bloggers Simon Brooks and Karen Chace – “Branding - It Doesn't Have to Hurt!” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C "Steer" the audience to you! Branding will help your image, professionalism and visibility. Build strength and trust with potential clients; define your personal and business persona. Create awareness and recognition with your client base. Bring your marketing materials for review. Laptops encouraged but not necessary. Come and get branded! Categories- Technology & Business ; Productions Levels: Beginner-Intermediate
Barbara Aliprantis- Crossing Language Barriers With Your Hands- 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A The rich visual accompaniment of American Sign Language lexicon adds depth of expression and understanding to any spoken story -- for all ages, even with perfect hearing. Come ready to play games to increase visual awareness, learn some signs, and leave with hands full of storytelling tricks that work with all populations. Categories-Performing Skills ; Education /Youth Levels: All; youth welcome Marni Gillard and Paula Weiss - “Creating an Interfaith Youth Storytelling Program “ 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Learn how Children at the Well came to be, grew and changed. Hear teens share tales, and hear about their experiences in the program. Brainstorm how you might engage youth and their families to create a dynamic, diverse storytelling group focused on peace and understanding in your community. Categories- Culture & Community; Education/Youth; Performing Skills; Creating Stories Productions level: All; youth welcome Jean Alter, LCSW- “Telling Stories to Teach Peace Skills” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C Stories can be a “back-door” that allow students to consider how to handle conflicts peacefully and fairly. Participants of this workshop will learn:
Categories- Education /Youth; Healing & Spirituality Levels: All (incl.clergy, librarians) Julia Morris - “Journeys Through Narrative; Stories That Move and Sing” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Join Julia M. Morris, a storyteller with Early Stages, Inc., as she moves you through the settings and imaginative terrain of various tales. In this interactive workshop, participants will employ the modalities of body, voice and imagination to enter, live inside, and extend the experience of story. Detailed hand-outs provided. Category- Creating Stories Education Performance Skills, Levels: All working with young children Shawn Middleton- “Bringing It Back To Nature” (Storytelling With Nature) 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Workshop Session C Remember the days when you were six or seven years old? Maybe you were laying down on you back in the backward or on a trail when you gazed up at the sky and your imagination ran wild. The clouds, trees, rocks and animals came together with characters and an adventure. Before you knew it, you created a story in your head. This is an inspiring workshop that will bring your class back to nature while learning some incredible storytelling techniques You will walk away with new nature stories and outside activities to use with your students Categories: Education (young children) Levels: All esp Beginner-Intermediate; youth welcome Marion Leeper –“ The Storymat: Rich, Strong and Powerful Stories for Young Children” 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Description: Strange creatures, surprising objects, and magical stories appear from the storymat’s pockets. In this hands-on workshop, discover new ways of using props, try out joining-in techniques, re-shape stories to involve and enchant young children. Seriously thought-provoking fun. Bring a small collection of fabrics, toys, natural or found objects if you can. Categories- Education (young children); Culture & Community Levels: All esp. Beginner-Intermediate
Bob Reiser- “Mind-Movies (Envisioning your Stories with New Eyes)” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D “She was red. Hot as the sun. She lived in a cave and danced with flames. She owned all the fire in the world.” A dream? A film? The start of your next story? Your tale is born when you fully see it, hear it, feel it. Awaken your inner movie-maker. Bring your stories to life! Categories- Performing Skills; Education /Youth Levels: Intermediate - Advanced; youth welcome Jeff Gere - In Your Face! 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B If EYES be the window to the soul’ then FACE is soul’s yard, welcome mat & front door. With over 200 muscles, the storyteller’s face is a tool traveling the emotional landscape of a story’s psychological terrain. The views are vivacious, the glances gleeful & grim, mugs mirthful and melancholic. Jeff Gere’s facial aerobics lead theater games, improvisations, and stories exploring the subtlety, range and power of FACE. Categories- Performing Skills; Creating Storie; Education/Youth Levels: All; youth welcome John Porcino – “How to Tell a Darn Good Story” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C This is an experiential “playshop” in which participants are guided through the process of finding, learning, building and polishing stories for telling. The emphasis will be on finding the creative voice in each of us. Participants leave with at least one new story and a template for creating many more. Categories- Performing Skills; Creating Stories; Education/Youth Levels: Beginner-Intermediate ; youth welcome
(Hudson River Ramblers)- Showcase- “Don’t Tread on ME”-Revolutionary Tales on Bullying and Character ( Showcase - 60 min. session.) 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Discover how your own local history, can build character and deal with bullying. Using stories and songs from the American Revolution, The Hudson River Ramblers reveal values you may turn into learning activities in storytelling, schools, libraires and historic sites. Find out why “Yankee Doodle” helped George Washington win. Categories- Culture & Community; Education /Youth Levels: All
Barbara Aliprantis- Crossing Language Barriers With Your Hands- 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A The rich visual accompaniment of American Sign Language lexicon adds depth of expression and understanding to any spoken story -- for all ages, even with perfect hearing. Come ready to play games to increase visual awareness, learn some signs, and leave with hands full of storytelling tricks that work with all populations. Categories-Performing Skills ; Education /Youth Levels: All; youth welcome Leeny Del Seamonds- “Master Coaching with Leeny Del Seamonds” 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Bring stories to life with one-on-one coaching for all levels. Develop believable characters with depth and distinction and use body movements/mime, gestures, and vocal variety to breathe life into stories and keep them tight. Three storytellers chosen by lottery will present up to a 10-minute story or excerpt. Listeners welcomed! Categories: Performing Skills, Creating Stories, Coaching Level: All Regina Ress- “Bilingual Storytelling: Adding Flavor and Fun to your Story” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Deliciously open up your storytelling to the diversity of language that enriches our world. Add flavor and texture that deepens the story experience by adding words and phrases of the original language. Invite your audience to share the language as you share world tales with them. Yummy storytelling! Categories- Performing Skills; Culture & Community Levels: All; youth welcome Michael Parent – “Mentoring- One Possible Approach” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D This participatory workshop, for all levels of storytellers, will include demonstration, exercises, and role playing, introducing an approach to the mentor-mentee relationship. Attendees will gain a practical method of mentoring or being mentored. Handouts will be available and participants should come ready to try things. Categories- Performing Skills; Coaching Levels:All performers Bob Reiser- “Mind-Movies (Envisioning your Stories with New Eyes)” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D “She was red. Hot as the sun. She lived in a cave and danced with flames. She owned all the fire in the world.” A dream? A film? The start of your next story? Your tale is born when you fully see it, hear it, feel it. Awaken your inner movie-maker. Bring your stories to life! Categories- Performing Skills; Education /Youth Levels: Intermediate - Advanced; youth welcome
Cris Riedel – “You GOT ‘Em! Now FIND ‘Em! Discovering Your Character Voices “ 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Character Voices, those magical additions to story. Everybody can find them! My discovery voice work begins in technique and moves into imaginative play that leads to realization of what your voice can do. You’ll come away with specific techniques and exercises to use in your story art right away. Category- Performing Skills Levels-Intermediate - Advanced; youth welcome
Jeff Gere - In Your Face! 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B If EYES be the window to the soul’ then FACE is soul’s yard, welcome mat & front door. With over 200 muscles, the storyteller’s face is a tool traveling the emotional landscape of a story’s psychological terrain. The views are vivacious, the glances gleeful & grim, mugs mirthful and melancholic. Jeff Gere’s facial aerobics lead theater games, improvisations, and stories exploring the subtlety, range and power of FACE. Categories- Performing Skills; Creating Storie; Education/Youth Levels: All; youth welcome
Cindy Rivka Marshall –“ What a Character! Portraying Characters With Your Body and Voice” 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session C Learn a method for creating clear, specific characters. We will loosen up body and voice to allow characters to come through gesture, walk, vocal patterns and facial expressions. Come work on a character from a story you already tell, or choose a new one on the spot. For all levels. Category- Performing Skills Levels: All; youth welcome Jean Armstrong - Character Voices That Don’t Damage Yours! 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Are your favorite character voices silencing you? Are you experiencing vocal blow out with certain stories? Learn strategies to reduce damaging vocal techniques while not sacrificing your artistic interpretation! This voice care workshop emphasizes troubleshooting for your character voices. The participants will explore vocal flexibility that preserves the storteller’s voice in guided exercises led by voice therapist and storyteller, Jean Armstrong. Bring your vocally demanding stories and characters for coaching and small group work. Categories- Performing Skills ; Coaching (voice) Levels:All Jeanne Donato Ed.D. and Audrey Daigneault Ph.D. - “How Do I Begin? An Introduction to Storytelling” 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Storytelling: How do I Begin? Does storytelling fascinate you? Ever wish you could tell stories but not sure how to start? Join Jeanne Donato and Audrey Daigneault in playing interactive storytelling games that build confidence. Learn how to find, polish, and tell stories. Come willing to share with other first-timers! Category: Performing Skills Levels: Beginner/Novice Robin Bady –“Whose Story Is It Anyway?” 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Whose story are you telling and how does that choice inform the stories you tell? Through physical and vocal characterizations, we will explore different points of view and discuss how they influence the story. Finally, we will talk about choosing the narrative voice. Remember:Who tells the story rules the world. Categories- Performing Skills ; Productions Levels:All John Porcino – “How to Tell a Darn Good Story” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C This is an experiential “playshop” in which participants are guided through the process of finding, learning, building and polishing stories for telling. The emphasis will be on finding the creative voice in each of us. Participants leave with at least one new story and a template for creating many more. Categories- Performing Skills; Creating Stories; Education/Youth Levels: Beginner-Intermediate ; youth welcome
Jackson Gillman - “High-Performance Coaching” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C Have a story you know is roadworthy, but still sputters in places? Bring it into Jackson’s Bard & Body Shop! Specializing in: hammering out dents, parts replacements, lubrication, fine tune-ups. Jackson will offer tips for better spark and traction, helping you get that number up and running like a charm. Categories- Performing Skills; Coaching Levels: All performers Bill Ratner- “ Voiceovers for Storytellers – Find Your Best Storyteller Voice” 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A We discuss methods of seeking employment in voiceovers, producing your own voiceover demos, setting up a home recording studio, and recording a story CD. We practice a vocal warm-up, read voiceover and story text aloud, and address new ways of using your voice in storytelling. Categories- Technology & Business; Performing Skills Levels: All; youth welcome Marni Gillard and Paula Weiss - “Creating an Interfaith Youth Storytelling Program “ 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Learn how Children at the Well came to be, grew and changed. Hear teens share tales, and hear about their experiences in the program. Brainstorm how you might engage youth and their families to create a dynamic, diverse storytelling group focused on peace and understanding in your community. Categories- Culture & Community; Education/Youth; Performing Skills; Creating Stories Productions level: All; youth welcome
Priscilla Howe –“Going Deep: Telling Tales of Epic Proportions” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Hungry for depth, substance, and a rich, tasty story experience? Long traditional stories can be a hearty feast in a fast-food two-minute world. We’ll look at why and how to choose, research, prepare and tell stories of epic proportions, the taproot of modern storytelling For intermediate and advanced storytellers. Categories- Performing Skills; Creating Stories (working with traditional material) Levels: Intermediate - Advanced Robert Smyth- “Sound System Basic’s – XRL or 1/4 inch what’s the difference?” 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Being a good performer requires knowing how to work with microphones and a sound system. We will cover the basics of sound reinforcement including microphone types, nomenclature, and how they are best used. There will be time for each participant to work with different microphones, for voice and instruments, and learn about them. Categories- Performing Skills; Technology & Business Levels- All Julia Morris - “Journeys Through Narrative; Stories That Move and Sing” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Join Julia M. Morris, a storyteller with Early Stages, Inc., as she moves you through the settings and imaginative terrain of various tales. In this interactive workshop, participants will employ the modalities of body, voice and imagination to enter, live inside, and extend the experience of story. Detailed hand-outs provided. Category- Creating Stories Education Performance Skills, Levels: All working with young children Judith Heineman and Julie Herrera – “Turning Your Travels into Tellable Tales” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C Everyone brings something back from a trip – if only a memory. These treasured souvenirs are the makings of a unique new story waiting to be told. Choose something from your travels, exotic to mundane; bring it with you; learn to transform your travel experiences into an engaging story to share. Categories- Culture & Community; Creating Stories Levels:All
Marni Gillard and Paula Weiss - “Creating an Interfaith Youth Storytelling Program “ 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Learn how Children at the Well came to be, grew and changed. Hear teens share tales, and hear about their experiences in the program. Brainstorm how you might engage youth and their families to create a dynamic, diverse storytelling group focused on peace and understanding in your community. Catagories- Culture & Community; Education/Youth; Performing Skills; Creating Stories Productions level: All; youth welcome Susanna Holstein (Granny Sue) - Showcase: Introduction to Appalachian Ballads ( Showcase - 60 min. session.) 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A The ballad tradition is rich with story material. History, important ballad collectors, comparison of British and Appalachian ballads, key sources for ballads, suggestions for developing a ballad into a told tale, listening and performance examples will provide a broad overview of the Appalachian ballad tradition. Resource list and discography provided. Catagory- Culture & Community Levels: All
Mary Stewart – “Gathering at the Table of Life-“ 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D We pass on more than the mashed potatoes when we break bread together. In this fast food world, let’s slow down to explore the stories and rituals of the table -- and remember together what feeds us and makes us human beings. Category- Culture & Community Levels: All (Hudson River Ramblers)- Showcase- “Don’t Tread on ME”-Revolutionary Tales on Bullying and Character ( Showcase - 60 min. session.) 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session DDiscover how your own local history, can build character and deal with bullying. Using stories and songs from the American Revolution, The Hudson River Ramblers reveal values you may turn into learning activities in storytelling, schools, libraires and historic sites. Find out why “Yankee Doodle” helped George Washington win. Categories- Culture & Community; Education /Youth Levels: All
Ruth Canonico - Showcase- “Tell them Again for Me” Stories from Scottish (Gypsy) Travelers ( Showcase - 60 min. session.) 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Once in a lifetime, we meet someone who lives entirely in the world of narratives; stories and songs that nourish the teller more than food. "The Scottish (Gypsy) Traveler Duncan Williamson generously shared this legacy with the world. "Today I share my meetings and memories of ‘Travelers’ with you. Catagory- Culture & Community Levels:All Deborah Freedman – Showcase- “Grandma are you with me!” ( Showcase - 60 min. session.) 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Our time is now. Open to the heart's language, fairy tale, and create a story for the grandchildren, actual or perceived, we love. Give them a gift of story, integrated into their life, bringing a sense of well-being home. Categories- Culture & Community; Creating Stories Levels: All Marion Leeper –“ The Storymat: Rich, Strong and Powerful Stories for Young Children” 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Description: Strange creatures, surprising objects, and magical stories appear from the storymat’s pockets. In this hands-on workshop, discover new ways of using props, try out joining-in techniques, re-shape stories to involve and enchant young children. Seriously thought-provoking fun. Bring a small collection of fabrics, toys, natural or found objects if you can. Categories- Education (young children); Culture & Community Levels: All esp. Beginner-Intermediate Presenter: Regina Ress Workshop: “Bilingual Storytelling: Adding Flavor and Fun to your Story” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Deliciously open up your storytelling to the diversity of language that enriches our world. Add flavor and texture that deepens the story experience by adding words and phrases of the original language. Invite your audience to share the language as you share world tales with them. Yummy storytelling! Categories- Performing Skills; Culture & Community Levels: All; youth welcome Carol Martino- “It’s Not That Easy Being Green: Telling Tales of Redemption” ( Showcase with workshop- 90 min. session.) 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Carolyn Martino will present Masks, an autobiographical tale of self-acceptance and healing that Donald Davis calls “a beautiful work of courage, humor and honesty.” Learn to shape a difficult or challenging personal experience into a life-affirming story that is clear, accessible and safe for the listener. Categories- Healing & Spirituality Levels: All Gerald Fierst- “Making Life Rituals From Your Stories” 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Using ritual structure, traditional motifs, and the rhythms of language, we will discuss concepts and tools to create life passage celebrations which open our lives into an awareness of the universal. Births, weddings, and funerals, are all moments of recognition; so are kitchen warmings, downsizings, retirement, and divorce. Catagory- Healing & Spirituality Levels:All Elisa Pearmain – “Dining with our Demons: Cultivating Self-Compassion through Story” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C Helping ourselves and our clients to sit with and embrace uncomfortable feelings and unaccepted parts of ourselves is a key aspect of personal growth and therapeutic work. Drawing on wisdom tales, brief mindfulness exercises and personal stories we will explore and deepen the practice of welcoming and honoring what is. Category- Healing & Spirituality Levels:All Jean Alter, LCSW- “Telling Stories to Teach Peace Skills” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C Stories can be a “back-door” that allow students to consider how to handle conflicts peacefully and fairly. Participants of this workshop will learn:
Categories- Education /Youth; Healing & Spirituality Levels: All (incl.clergy, librarians)
Fran Yardley- “ Journeys to Transformation: Sharing our Experience of How Story Heals” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D What is healing story? Who is it for? Why is it important? Drawing from thirty years experience, Fran will share a keynote exploring these questions. Participants at all levels will be actively engaged to share their own experiences, expanding the discussion of the past, present and future of healing story. Category- Healing & Spirituality Levels: All interesting in story and healing Marni Gillard and Paula Weiss - “Creating an Interfaith Youth Storytelling Program “ 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Learn how Children at the Well came to be, grew and changed. Hear teens share tales, and hear about their experiences in the program. Brainstorm how you might engage youth and their families to create a dynamic, diverse storytelling group focused on peace and understanding in your community. Catagories- Culture & Community; Education/Youth; Performing Skills; Creating Stories Productions level: All; youth welcome
Carol Martino- “It’s Not That Easy Being Green: Telling Tales of Redemption”
( Showcase with workshop- 90 min. session.) 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A
Carolyn Martino will present Masks, an autobiographical tale of self-acceptance and healing that Donald Davis calls “a beautiful work of courage, humor and honesty.” Learn to shape a difficult or challenging personal experience into a life-affirming story that is clear, accessible and safe for the listener.
Categories- Healing & Spirituality Creating Stories Levels: All Leeny Del Seamonds- “Master Coaching with Leeny Del Seamonds” 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Bring stories to life with one-on-one coaching for all levels. Develop believable characters with depth and distinction and use body movements/mime, gestures, and vocal variety to breathe life into stories and keep them tight. Three storytellers chosen by lottery will present up to a 10-minute story or excerpt. Listeners welcomed! Categories: Performing Skills, Creating Stories, Coaching Level: All Geraldine Buckley- “From The Pen To Performance” 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Are fascinating stories stuck inside you? Do you have writers/tellers block? Take this interactive workshop and through writing exercises to free up your imagination, help discovering your story’s arc, and practice telling your tale, your previously stuck story will develop a vibrant life of its own. Catagory- Creating Stories Levels: All esp. Beginner- Intermediate ; youth welcome Jeff Gere - In Your Face! 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B If EYES be the window to the soul’ then FACE is soul’s yard, welcome mat & front door. With over 200 muscles, the storyteller’s face is a tool traveling the emotional landscape of a story’s psychological terrain. The views are vivacious, the glances gleeful & grim, mugs mirthful and melancholic. Jeff Gere’s facial aerobics lead theater games, improvisations, and stories exploring the subtlety, range and power of FACE. Catagories- Performing Skills; Creating Stories; Education/Youth Levels: All; youth welcome Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Committee Carol Birch with Melissa Heckler, and Marcia Hupp Showcase- Winning Tales: The Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award ( Showcase - 60 min. session.) 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Looking for extraordinary tales to tell? Carol Birch and her colleagues on the award committee introduce the distinguished woman behind the award, share the newest titles, and tell tales from past winners. Annotated bibliography of 130 books - useful for novices and experts alike - will be provided Catagory- Creating Stories (finding sources) Levels: All (incl. librarians) Jo Radner – “From Seed To Tree: How To Grow Memories Into Stories” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Workshop Session C Often our most vivid memories come out as sketchy anecdotes. How do we develop those funny or poignant moments into full, shapely stories to delight an audience of strangers? This active workshop offers novices a toolbox of techniques and practical experiments. By the end, you will have a new story. Category- Creating Stories Levels: Beginners John Porcino – “How to Tell a Darn Good Story” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C This is an experiential “playshop” in which participants are guided through the process of finding, learning, building and polishing stories for telling. The emphasis will be on finding the creative voice in each of us. Participants leave with at least one new story and a template for creating many more. Categories- Performing Skills; Creating Stories; Education/Youth Levels: Beginner-Intermediate ; youth welcome
Judith Heineman and Julie Herrera – “Turning Your Travels into Tellable Tales” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C Everyone brings something back from a trip – if only a memory. These treasured souvenirs are the makings of a unique new story waiting to be told. Choose something from your travels, exotic to mundane; bring it with you; learn to transform your travel experiences into an engaging story to share. Categories- Culture & Community; Creating Stories Levels:All Priscilla Howe –“Going Deep: Telling Tales of Epic Proportions” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Hungry for depth, substance, and a rich, tasty story experience? Long traditional stories can be a hearty feast in a fast-food two-minute world. We’ll look at why and how to choose, research, prepare and tell stories of epic proportions, the taproot of modern storytelling For intermediate and advanced storytellers. Categories- Performing Skills; Creating Stories (working with traditional material) Levels: Intermediate - Advanced
Julia Morris - “Journeys Through Narrative; Stories That Move and Sing” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Join Julia M. Morris, a storyteller with Early Stages, Inc., as she moves you through the settings and imaginative terrain of various tales. In this interactive workshop, participants will employ the modalities of body, voice and imagination to enter, live inside, and extend the experience of story. Detailed hand-outs provided. Category- Creating Stories Education Performance Skills, Levels: All working with young children
Deborah Freedman – Showcase- “Grandma are you with me!” ( Showcase - 60 min. session.) 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D Our time is now. Open to the heart's language, fairy tale, and create a story for the grandchildren, actual or perceived, we love. Give them a gift of story, integrated into their life, bringing a sense of well-being home. Categories- Culture & Community; Creating Stories Levels: All Leeny Del Seamonds- “Master Coaching with Leeny Del Seamonds” 1:15 PM- 2:45 PM Workshop Session A Bring stories to life with one-on-one coaching for all levels. Develop believable characters with depth and distinction and use body movements/mime, gestures, and vocal variety to breathe life into stories and keep them tight. Three storytellers chosen by lottery will present up to a 10-minute story or excerpt. Listeners welcomed! Categories: Performing Skills, Creating Stories, Coaching Level: All
Jean Armstrong - Character Voices That Don’t Damage Yours! 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM Workshop Session B Are your favorite character voices silencing you? Are you experiencing vocal blow out with certain stories? Learn strategies to reduce damaging vocal techniques while not sacrificing your artistic interpretation! This voice care workshop emphasizes troubleshooting for your character voices. The participants will explore vocal flexibility that preserves the storteller’s voice in guided exercises led by voice therapist and storyteller, Jean Armstrong. Bring your vocally demanding stories and characters for coaching and small group work. Catagories- Performing Skills ; Coaching (voice) Levels:All Jackson Gillman - “High-Performance Coaching” 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Workshop Session C Have a story you know is roadworthy, but still sputters in places? Bring it into Jackson’s Bard & Body Shop! Specializing in: hammering out dents, parts replacements, lubrication, fine tune-ups. Jackson will offer tips for better spark and traction, helping you get that number up and running like a charm. Categories- Performing Skills; Coaching Levels: All performers
Michael Parent – “Mentoring- One Possible Approach” 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Workshop Session D This participatory workshop, for all levels of storytellers, will include demonstration, exercises, and role playing, introducing an approach to the mentor-mentee relationship. Attendees will gain a practical method of mentoring or being mentored. Handouts will be available and participants should come ready to try things. Categories- Performing Skills; Coaching Levels:All performers
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