SHARING THE FIRE VIRTUAL TRACK INFORMATION

Virtual Track

Virtual track will include:

  • Live-streaming of mainstage events:
    • "Good Girls Don't, but Indian Girls Do" and other Stories, a performance by Vijay Nathan
    • Two Ears - One Mouth - One Heart, Keynote with Elizabeth Ellis
    • Adult Olio: I’m All Ears: Stories of Listening & Connection, featuring storytellers Jennifer Munro, Simon Brooks, Bruce Marcus, Lani Peterson, Sarah Brady, Valerie Tutson, & Sara deBeer. Emcee: Jo Radner
    • Listen to my Heart's Song, a performance by Elizabeth Ellis
    • Family Olio: Spinning Tales for Fun, featuring adult storytellers Lee-Ellen Marvin, Mike Perry, and Michele Carlo and youth tellers from Children at the Well
  • Live-streaming of three workshops from the conference:
    • The Adaptive Storyteller: Reframing Skills for New Opportunities with Elsa Zúñiga, Valerie Tutson, & Lani Peterson
    • Prepare to Scare with Elizabeth Ellis
    • Interfaith Story Circle: Who is Your Neighbor? with Katie Green
  • Fully-interactive online workshops in partnership with ASST, specifically tailored for our virtual audience:
    • Intensive: Listening Between the Lines: Deepening How We Hear Hard Stories with Nancy Donoval
    • Workshop: Body, Face, and Voice: Physical Technique in Storytelling with Karin Amano
  • Virtual Story Swap with Feedback presented by NEST’s own Worldwide Virtual Storytelling Guild
  • Virtual Meet-ups for participants to connect and reflect
  • Recordings of the above sent to full conference and virtual ticket holders after the event.

 

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

 

Virtual Intensive

Listening Between the Lines: Deepening How We Hear Hard Stories

Presented by Nancy Donoval

An interactive presentation using storytelling concepts to strengthen listening skills, particularly when listening to difficult or trauma-based stories. Understanding how to be story wise when listening, and not just when telling, is part of being a responsible story practitioner. Deep, empathetic listening is essential to resolving conflicts, finding common ground, connecting across cultural divides, and being effective in the healing arts.

Virtual Workshop

Body, Face, and Voice: Physical Technique in Storytelling

Presented by Karin Amano

Japanese Actor/storyteller/theme park performer Karin Amano creates an interactive workshop where we will explore: how to grab the audience’s attention and keep them engaged, facial expressions, playing multiple characters using the Japanese Rakugo technique changing voices, and making gestures. She will also talk about how to use the computer screen effectively for virtual performances.