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Stories of Our Community: A Personal Storytelling Workshop

January 18, 2025 @ 3:00 PM - January 19, 2025 @ 9:00 PM

Stories of Our Community: A Personal Storytelling Workshop

📅 Dates: January 18 & 19, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 – 16:00
📍 Location: Morrin Centre
🎨 Event Category: Cultural Event

Join writer, performer, and teacher Taylor Tower for a two-day workshop on the art of personal storytelling. Through a mix of listening, writing, and oral presentation exercises, you will learn to craft compelling narratives. You will also explore the five elements of a great story, build dynamic characters, and master storytelling techniques for structure, performance, and delivery.

This immersive workshop concludes with participants performing their final stories, offering a rewarding opportunity to share your unique voice and connect with others through storytelling.

📌 Note: Registration covers both days, and attendance on January 18 is required to join the January 19 session.

Stories of Our Community: A Personal Storytelling Workshop

Saturday, January 18 and Sunday, January 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

 

In this workshop, we will identify the ingredients of a compelling story and the best ways to tell it.

 

Focusing on listening and oral presentation, this workshop will help you develop your voice, hone storytelling skills, and develop a more profound sense of what makes a story worth sharing. We will analyze oral stories and do many written exercises to explore storytelling concepts and find a subject for our final stories, which will be performed at the end of the second day.

 

Over two days, we will explore together:

  • The five essential elements of a great story – using the five senses to create evocative scenes
  • Character and Plot: Turning yourself into a character and finding motive and action for your stories
  • Structure and Endings
  • Oral Vs. Written Stories: The Outline and Voice
  • Performance: Rhythm and tempo, repetition, open vs closed postures, habitual muscular tensions and body centres

 

Immerse yourself in the storytelling practice!

Please note: By booking a ticket for January 18, you are automatically registered for the full, two-day workshop. Attendance on January 18 is required to attend the January 19 session.

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