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Look This Way!: Techniques for Directing Audience Attention
By Steve Daut © 2019 This is a workshop about techniques gleaned from my (admittedly schizophrenic) career in magic, stand-up comedy, improv, playwriting and, of course, storytelling. Perhaps you are new to storytelling and haven’t yet settled in your approach to storytelling, or perhaps you have been telling stories for years, and you know it’s […]
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Finding Gold in the Personal Story Shaping Process
In the early 1930’s a temple in Thailand was torn down and a large stucco statue of the Buddha was moved to a warehouse where it sat for many years. Finally, a new temple was built, and a crane was brought to move the heavy statue into its new home. In the process of moving […]
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Coaching Lessons from 1916
By Doug Lipman Do you know the classic children’s book published in 1916, Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher? I quickly fell in love with this book and its author, who has written a story with lessons that seem timely—and relevant to helping storytellers—even a century later. Here’s the set-up Elizabeth Ann is an […]
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A short note about walking as the source of stories and poems
Presenter: Loren Niemi First, this is a fun workshop. You actually walk around the hotel, outside, and the neighborhood, which can be a nice break from sitting in rooms. Some folks have walked in rain and snow, some just circled the lobby and bar. Either way you walk with a prompt sheet that gives you […]
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The Magic of Words: Basic Storytelling Performance and Composition Skills
Presenter: Heather Forest Saturday 10:30 am-Noon Room: Wampanoag Come to my workshop if you are a beginning or burgeoning storyteller who enjoys exploring the intricacies of the creative process. We will journey together into the world of imagination to see the many ways stories are structured. We will playfully explore how to bring stories to […]
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Play with your Story — the Power of PechaKucha!
by Bill Derry & Nina Lesiga ©2019 A PechaKucha* is a unique visual storytelling format, pronounced Puh-CHA’-ka-CHA’. A Pecha-Kucha Night is a community forum centered on succinct 400 second stories to bring creative minds together for a night of inspiration, networking, and fun. Creating and presenting a PechaKucha is an exciting adventure for the teller and the audience! […]
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SAND TRAY STORY MAKING PLAYSHOP
Clare Vadeboncoeur © 2019 It is so exciting for me to take something I love and share it with others. I have had a passion for miniatures as long as I can remember. I have three sisters who also share the love of small things. We each have a shadow box or two where […]
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Science: Tell It Like A Story
Fran Stallings © 2019 What do you mean, you do storytelling – and science?” These two fields are not an oxymoron, like “genuine copy,” “giant shrimp,” or “child-proof.” I feel privileged to have pursued them both. My two youngest brothers, who arrived when I was in middle school, trained me in storytelling as a […]
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The Music in the Words
Chris Kastle © 2019 The number one question people ask me about my songs is whether I write the words or the music first. For me, it is the words—always the words. The words create the verse; the verse creates the picture; and the picture creates the melody. And the melody–the melody imprints it […]
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When Our Stories Transform
Jim Brulé © 2019 Years ago I was telling one of my favorite stories (“The Dead Fiancee”) when a completely unexpected thing happened. At the very end of the story, the protagonist offers a character who has suddenly appeared in the story a sack of coins from the character’s sister. “What took you so […]
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