Practice, practice, practice is how you learn to tell stories. It also helps to get some feedback and advice.
In this session, six people will have the opportunity to take the stage for fifteen minutes each. They can tell a story and receive feedback and advice during that time. Tellers can opt to tell and just receive applause if they prefer and they can ask specific questions about their performance.
The audience will be encouraged to reflect on the story and make comments which will benefit the teller.
This event is about oral storytelling, not creative writing but if anyone wishes to use notes that is not a problem.
You do not have to tell a story to attend, there are four tickets for people to come and listen. You will learn as much from listening to other tellers as from telling.
Carmel Page is a renown storyteller who performs in large museums, to tiny toddlers, around blazing bonfires, in spooky graveyards, sitting on pub bars, lying on piles of scarves and whilst throwing teddy bears at her audience. She is passionate about storytelling and giving people the skills and confidence they need to fill the land with stories.
Feedback from other Storytelling Skills sessions:
“Loved the understanding of plotting.”
“I’m going to go home and look at my story with new eyes” Liz
“Great couple of hours exploring how to tell a story” Peter
“Very helpful advice. Very funny moments.” Charlotte
