Stories of Our Community: A Personal Storytelling Workshop
Please note that this activity has limited places and is full. If you wish to be on the wait list, please email us at info@morrin.org. Join us for a special two-day workshop on personal storytelling given by writer, performer, and teacher Taylor Tower.
FULLY BOOKED Saturday, January 18 and Sunday, January 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Please note that this activity has limited places and is full. If you wish to be on the wait list, please email us at info@morrin.org.
In this workshop, we will identify the ingredients of a compelling story and the best ways to tell it.
With a focus on listening and oral presentation, this workshop will help you to develop voice, hone storytelling skills and come away with a deeper sense of what makes a story worth sharing. We will analyze oral stories and do a number of 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 the course of 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
Come immerse yourself in the storytelling practice!
Please note: by booking a ticket for January 18, you are automatically registered for the full, two-days workshop. January 18 attendance is required to attend the January 19 session.
Presenter Biography
Taylor Tower is a writer, performer and teacher based in Montreal. She grew up in Portland, Oregon and studied creative writing at Portland State University before moving to Montreal in 2006. She co-produced and co-hosted Confabulation, a monthly storytelling series, and performed in numerous storytelling events including Literary Death Match, The Moth GrandSLAM and The Moth MainStage.
Her writing has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour, which airs on 500 radio stations around the world, as well as CBC Radio One’s WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein and Public Radio Remix. She has taught storytelling workshops to students of all ages at Confabulation, Quebec Writers’ Federation, The Loft Literary Center and the Morrin Centre.