TMAT Session 5 - Storytelling through Song with John Pfumojena

" Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu's brand of storytelling is enchanting and captivating" - Selina Jones, Actress (HBO's Raised by Wolves)

Overview

TELL ME A TALE is a course for any person who is interested in developing their skills in telling stories live

This includes but is not limited to :

• Actors

• Poets

• Performers (Singers, Rappers, Dancers etc.)

• Orators (Public Speakers, Managers, Youth Mentors, Preachers etc.)

• Anyone interested in storytelling or performing!

Storytellers will work with Olivier nominated director and theatremaker , Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu and a number of special guests, will lead you through 8 fun, energetic and revelatory sessions that will teach you how to use energy, intention, comprehension and imagination to become a better storyteller.

This session

This Session with Musical Director and Vocal Tutor John Pfumojena – founder of Meet My Ancestors – will strengthen your skills in narrating stories through singing. You will experimenting with a variety of objectives, emotions and voices to stretch your capabilities in storytelling.

Want more?

This session is part of collection for the 2025 Course which can be viewed here

This includes

Session 1: Imagination, Improvisation & Purposeful Storytelling

Session 2: Character Creation & Multi-Rolling

Session 3: Text, Analysis and Audience

Session 4: Story Structure, Solo shows & Devising

Session 5: Storytelling through voice & song with John Pfumojena

Session 6: Storytelling in Movement and Dance with Theo O. Bailey

Session 7: Devising through Surrealism with dkfash

Session 8: Live Lab

Storytellers can either drop in to one session or do all 8 for a discount! By the end of each workshop, you will be able to utilise and recall core storytelling skills that can be adapted to whatever walk of life you need.

In addition, you will be lead in a safe, supportive and spirited space where you will connect with like-minded people & grow! You can be a professional or enthusiast, all are welcome and all will develop.

"T his is where practice makes better. Left with so much understanding and the whole experience was joyful" - Charity Muiruri , Actor & Youtube Influencer

Storytellers can either drop in to one session or do all 8 for a discount! By the end of each workshop, you will be able to utilise and recall core storytelling skills that can be adapted to whatever walk of life you need.

In addition, you will be lead in a safe, supportive and spirited space where you will connect with like-minded people & grow! You can be a professional or enthusiast, all are welcome and all will develop.

"T his is where practice makes better. Left with so much understanding and the whole experience was joyful" - Charity Muiruri , Actor & Youtube Influencer

About Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is an award-winning Theatremaker with 10 years’ experience in creating theatre works for the British Stage. He has worked with spaces such as The Young Vic, National Theatre, Bush Theatre and am associate artists of The Gate Theatre and Brixton House.

In 2019, Tristan won the JMK Award for the revival of Little Baby Jesus by Arinze Kene. In 2022, he won the award for Best Director (alongside Ryan Calais-Cameron) at the Black British Theatre Awards and was nominated for an OIivier for Best Production & Best Supporting Cast for the West End hit " For Black Boys by Ryan Calais Cameron." His casts have won The Stage Debut Awards twice (2019 and 2022) and was nominated for Most Promising Playwright at the Offies in 2018.

About John Pfumojena

Known on stage as John Falsetto®️, is a Zimbabwean Composer, Mbira & Marimba Master, and Vocalist published by Warner Chappell Music. Currently a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford focusing on Theatre, Music, and Intercultural Collaboration. He has been awarded the OBIE Special Citation Award in New York for his work on the globally acclaimed stage play The Jungle, and is the recipient of an Honorary award for Cultural Ambassadorship by the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards UK. John’s musical work has seen him nominated for the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland - Best Music, and The Black British Theatre Awards -Best Musical Director & Best Supporting Actor in a Musical.

Trailer by Jack Matthew, Photos & Video by Salim Sai, Music by Khalil Madhovi