Storytelling Workshops Offered!

Storytelling Workshops: Spring 2010
Cindy Campbell’s Place (Dartmouth) or TBA

I am excited to be able to offer storytelling workshops this Spring. I have been telling stories professionally for 10 years and this fall I will be attending a storytelling festival and offering workshops. To help me prepare, I am offering a variety of workshops at a special price.
Whether you choose one or two workshops, you’ll get your creative spirit soaring to new levels...just bring your enthusiasm!
To register, contact Cindy at 902-466-0157 or at storysong@ns.sympatico.ca. I can also take requests for workshops at another time and place.
My web page can be found on www.professionalstoryteller.ning.com. For updates on storytelling and workshops, check out my storytelling blog at www.storytellingnovascotia.blogspot.com.

Costs for Each Workshop:
$30.00 per person
$25.00 for members of Storytellers Circle of Halifax

Beginner Storytelling Workshop:

Tell It! An Introduction to Storytelling
Saturday, April 24 1:00 - 4:30 pm

Wanna find out more about oral storytelling? Or perhaps you are interested in being a storyteller but don’t know if you have what it takes. Want to learn a few basic skills and connect with your storytelling style? This workshop is for you and will help you find, choose, learn, develop, and tell, your story.


Beginner/ Intermediate Workshop:

At the Root , It’s All about Connections
Saturday, May 15 1:00 - 4:30 pm

Storytelling at its roots has been connecting people and helping to define their culture and beliefs for several thousand years. Storytelling develops connections unlike any other art form.
Find your connection whether it be world or cultural tales, personal or family stories, community or historical, fairy or folk tales. Learn a few basic skills that will connect with your storytelling style and help you find, choose, learn, develop, and tell, your story. Discover a few techniques that can help you connect with your listeners of any age and audience size.
This participatory workshop is for novice or intermediate tellers who wish to explore storytelling for use in literary, educational, or historical environments, or for community, casual or performance type events.

Journeyman/Masters Workshop:

Delving for Buried Treasure: Dig Deeper, Connect, and Open Up
Saturday, June 19 1:00 - 4:30 pm

Think you’ve found a treasure of a story but can’t quite see the map? Been telling a story for so long, you’ve lost the magic? This workshop will help you navigate and find the hidden treasures in a new story or an old one. Learn constructive dissection of story parts or characters, then rebuild the story with satisfying improvements. Explore ways to combine several versions of a story or to weave fragments of one story into another one. Find out how to take small stories, anecdotes, folk lore and make a longer cohesive story. Discover the many ways to develop story combos, such as storysongs or how to enhance a story through trickery of voice.
This particpatory and peer supportive workshop is for journeymen or master tellers who wish to delve deep, explore, experiment, share ideas and experiences and feel empowered by change.