An Intensive Storytelling Workshop: with Liz Warren
JUNE Sat 19/Sun 20, 2010
The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 4
€75 (Concessions €65) Deposit: €20
Liz Warren is a storyteller, teacher, writer and co-founder of the South Mountain Community College Storytelling Institute in Phoenix , Arizona . She is author of “The Oral Tradition: An introduction to the Art of Storytelling” (2008). She teaches full time at the college, specialising in The Art of Storytelling, Creating and Telling Personal Stories, Multicultural Folktales, Mythology, The Irish Storytelling Tradition, Sacred Stories from Around the World, and Creating and Telling Epic Length Stories. Liz is one of the founders of Going Deep: The Long Traditional Storytelling Festival and a producer of the annual Mesa Storytelling festival held at the Mesa Arts Center.
Advanced Workshop: with Jan Blake
SEPTEMBER Sat 25/Sun 26, 2010
The Irish Writers Centre, Parnell Square, Dublin .
€80 (Concessions €60) Deposit: €20
Jan Blake is one of Britain ’s outstanding female storytellers, performing in theatres and festivals the length and breadth of Europe . She was born in Manchester to Jamaican parents. She has an international reputation for witty and exhilarating performances. Specialising in folktales from West Africa, North Africa, the Arab world and the Caribbean , her repertoire is full of tales of powerful women and her versions of Ananse’s exploits are definitive. She has worked as an artist in residence at various theatres in England , developing particularly close links with the National Theatre (where she is the Consultant on Storytelling).
The workshop with Liz Warren in June was fantastic! Some of us had never tried storytelling, some had experience or were old hands at it. It was a great mix of people and styles and stories. We learned a lot, laughed a lot, and had a great time!