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2024 Conference Workshops

Workshops are on Saturday, November 2

Workshop Session One, 9:00 - 10:30  (choice of one)

 

Creating Your Own Jack Tale by Octavia Sexton - Greenup Room

In this fun and interactive workshop participants will create an oral "Jack" tale set in their own community.  Their story will be modeled after the Appalachian tradition of  Jack Tales, but will be based on the culture and environment each participant is familiar with. Participants will not need to write the story during the workshop but will receive a guide to use as a pre-writing tool they can expand later. At the end of the workshop each participant will have an oral story.

About Octavia Sexton: With a lifetime of being immersed in the Appalachian storytelling tradition and over 30 years of teaching experience, Octavia not only entertains with her exuberant storytelling style but immerses the listener into Appalachian history and culture and provides skills to create and tell their own stories. https://octaviasexton.com/

 

Come with an Anecdote; Leave with a Story by Barbara Schutzgruber and Dorothy Cleveland  - Boyd Room

An anecdote is a simple retelling of something that happened. A story paints a narrative transformational journey with a beginning, middle and end. This workshop presents a blueprint of a story structure that provides a well-developed plot with characters that the audience can support, and ultimately, relate to.

About Barbara Schutzgruber & Dorothy Cleveland Barbara Schutzgruber is an award-winning storyteller, recording artist and author who shares folktales, ballads, and personal stories of resilience to audiences of all ages presenting workshops, showcases, keynotes and performances nationally and internationally. Dorothy Cleveland serves as Admin for Illinois, NSN/National Storytelling Network, and HSA/Healing Story Alliance organizations. She has a BA in Business and an MLS in Leadership. She may be coaxed into telling stories, too. Barbara and Dorothy co-authored Beyond the Sword Maiden: A Storyteller's Introduction to the Heroine's Journey. Both are recipients of NSN's ORACLE Awards - Barbara for Excellence in Story and Dorothy for Service and Leadership.  https://weavestory.com/   https://beyondswordmaiden.com

 

Workshop Session Two, 10:45 - 12:15 (choice of one)

 

Reclaiming Traditional Stories by Loren Niemi - Greenup Room

"Traditional" stories that come to us (especially via print) are, in fact, blueprints for a narrative rather than the complete story. As storytelling is relational - Story to audience through storyteller - the performance of stories might include music, gestures/actions, and interactive elements. This hands-on workshop explores immersive, deconstructed and braided approaches to flesh out a traditional story to comment on (illuminate) our individual and collective culture, meanings and values through careful and crafted revision.

About Loren Niemi: Loren Niemi is a storyteller, poet and author whose work includes a 2020 Midwest Book Award winning ghost story collection, What Haunts Us, a poetic memoir A Breviary for the Lost and Circus Rex a novel of romance, catastrophe and offbeat humor. He has also authored (or co-authored) three books on storytelling craft: Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories (with Elizabeth Ellis), The New Book of Plots, and Point of View and the Emotional Arc of Stories (with Nancy Donoval). He is a National Storytelling Network lifetime achievement recipient and founder of the American School of Storytelling.  www.lorenniemistories.com

  

Workshop Two Sides of the Coin:  Integrating Storytelling into STEM by Barry Stewart Mann - Carter Room

Folktales, historical narratives, personal stories, and original tales can all captivate students while conveying essential STEM content.  In this workshop, learn strategies and see them in action with diverse topics, from coins to moon phases to number lines to weather - and beyond.  And have fun in the process!

About Barry Stewart Mann: Barry Stewart Mann, MFA, is an Atlanta-based storyteller, actor, and teaching artist.  He has more than three decades of experience telling stories in diverse settings and embedding storytelling in teaching core curriculum.  He is a Harvard graduate with an M.F.A in Theatre from the University of San Diego, and is on the faculty of Lesley University’s Integrated Teaching through the Arts M. Ed. program.  As a storyteller, Barry tours internationally with Dream On Productions of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in the summer of 2024 travels to India as a Fulbright Specialist sharing practices in arts integration. www.barrystewartmann.com

 

 

Workshop Session Three, 3:00 - 4:30 (choice of one) 

 

Sausages and Stories: Let’s Talk Process by Anne Shelby  - Greenup Room

Stories go through stages before they get to the stage. Let’s talk process - the hard, messy, mysterious process of developing a story. Doing that in a roomful of storytellers, we might hear approaches we hadn’t thought of trying and, in the process, become better story-crafters and tellers.  

About Anne Shelby: Writer and storyteller Anne Shelby has taught writing in workshops and other settings, including the Governor’s School for the Arts, the School for the Creative and Performing Arts, the Appalachian Writers Workshop, and in projects generating stories for community plays.  Among other works, she is the author of The Man who Lived in a Hollow Tree, based on a family legend, and The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales, an American Folklore Society Aesop Accolade winner.  A longtime storyteller in elementary schools, Shelby has recently told at libraries, nursing homes, and festivals.    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557394387194  

 

Tiny Treasures - Early Childhood Tales & Techniques by Carrie Sue Ayvar - Boyd Room

Explore tales & techniques for telling to our tiniest treasures, 0-5 year olds. Learn effective strategies and the rationale behind them using an interactive, multimodal approach to early childhood learning that fuses creative movement, musicality and the art of storytelling.

About Carrie Sue Ayvar: Carrie Sue Ayvar, is an award-winning, bilingual (Spanish/English) storyteller, Nationally Credentialed Teaching Artist and Chautauqua Scholar who loves to connect people, languages and cultures via shared stories. Believing, as her grandfather taught her, that "If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life", she performs at venues large and small. www.carriesueayvar.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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