Learn tips for crafting and presenting short personal experience stories for sharing with friends/family &/or at live story events in a series of free "drop in" workshops at the Whitefish (MT) Community Center.
Workshop led by Flathead Story Concerts curators/hosts Barbara & Glenn Schiffman - co-hosted by Whitefish Community Center.
(photo above = Barb introducing storyteller Craig Naylor
at 9/17/24 Story Concert at Sacred Waters Brewing)
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Spoken Word Storycrafting Workshops = twice a month
>> 2nd & 4th Mondays in October & November
>> free admission ~ no reservations required
>> drop-in ~ you can attend one or more or all
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Do you have a personal experience story you'd like to tell at gatherings of friends &/or family -- or maybe submit to live storytelling events like our Flathead Story Concerts?
Would you like feedback and coaching on your content and presentation to help you make it memorable? We can help!
Crafting true experience essays for sharing out loud is a bit different than writing short stories for potential publication &/or individual readers...
In these 2-hour stand-alone Spoken Word Storycrafting Workshops, you'll learn our preferred 4-part structure for crafting short tellable stories plus 3 easy spoken word presentation techniques you can use right way.
These simple skills can help you shape your own "life lessons" -- heartfelt, amusing &/or surprising -- into engaging and memorable tales.
You can also get content and performance coaching from us: workshop leaders Barbara and Glenn Schifffman. We're both long-time story coaches and published short story &/or personal essay writers.
After we taught a 2-month class at FVCC on crafting tellable stories in Spring 2023, we've been curating and hosting Flathead Story Concerts in Kalispell as free live community events featuring multiple storytellers.
We're hoping to host more in 2025... and we hope some of the attendees at our free Storycrafting workshops create stories we can invitee to participate -- especially in events at the WFCC!
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2024 STORYCRAFTING WORKSHOP DATES:
October + November - 2nd & 4th Mondays
10/14 - 10/28 - 11/11 - 11/25
Attend one or more or all -- no reservations required.
WHERE: Whitefish Community Center
121 E. 2nd St, Whitefish
= just west of downtown Whitefish
- open parking lot next to WFCC
WHEN: 3:30-5:30pm ***
doors open @ 3:15
= If you arrive before 3:15, we will be setting up the room
so please be patient with us until we're ready to start.
doors will be closed @ 3:45
** this is an after-hours class co-hosted at WFCC
= If you may arrive late, TEXT Barbara by 3pm at 747-238-0038 so we can wait for you before locking the doors.
In case of schedule changes please check event listings at https://FlatheadStoryConcerts.wootick.com
or call Barbara at 747-238-0038
or RSVP to story23fvcc@gmail.com
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Feel free to bring ideas for tellable stories you'd like to create (or improve if you're already working on them).
But it's OK if you don't know where to start! We'll share possible story themes and prompts to inspire you. Then you can "first draft" an idea or two on your own and bring stories-in-progress to future SWS sessions for practice, feedback and coaching.
In each session, you'll also hear selected examples of tellable personal stories (live from us &/or online from The Moth Radio Hour or PBS-TV's "Stories From the Stage").
For newcomers and also returning attendees: In each session we'll review the 4-part story structure we use for our spoken word stories plus our top 3 presentation skills. Then you can listen for them in other people's shared stories and use them when crafting or telling your own.
If you have a story-in-progress, bring it to practice sharing out loud with our workshop-audience of story fans and tellers if you wish.
And if you share a story with the group during our "practice" portion of the workshop, you'll get audience feedback plus personalized coaching and tips from Barb & Glenn on your story content &/or presentation. This will help you revise and improve your story between SWS sessions. You can then practice it again at a future workshop session (time permitting) to get fresh feedback as your content and presentation style evolve.
By hearing other people's stories-in-progress and practicing your own with our workshop audience (optional), you'll also learn what works (and what doesn't) to help you polish your story more quickly than you might on your own.
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Questions about these workshops?
Call Barbara at 747-238-0038
or email her at story23fvcc@gmail.com.
