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Storytelling Toronto Fall 2022 Courses
Check out all the amazing courses offered by our friends at Storytelling Toronto this Fall!
IMPROV FOR STORYTELLERS IN PERSON
Location: Tarragon Theatre Studio, 30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto, ON
Course Fee: $101.70 ($90.00 + HST )
Nov 8 Tuesday / 6:30-9pm EST
Nov 15 Tuesday / 6:30-9pm EST
This two-session workshop will focus on guided improv exercises to help you build confidence in your storytelling ability and loosen your inhibitions. Through a variety of interactive games and exercises, you'll gain inspiration to be more spontaneous, find your authentic voice, and as a result, develop a deeper connection with any story, personal or traditional, that you choose to work on in future. You’ll learn how to take risks and fail--but gracefully, and with wild abandon. And you'll have fun! Prerequisite: This course is open to anyone who has taken an introductory storytelling course, from Storytelling Toronto or elsewhere. Click here to register.
TRANSFORMATIONS IN PERSON
Location: Community Gallery, Wychwood Barns, 76 Wychwood Ave, Toronto, ON
Course Fee: $288.15 ($255.00 + HST)
Nov 5 Saturday / 2:30-5pm EST
Nov 12 Saturday / 2:30-5pm EST
Nov 19 Saturday / 2:30-5pm EST
Nov 26 Saturday / 2:30-5pm EST
Dec 3 Saturday / 2:30-5pm EST
This course offers participants techniques to take a story based on a transformative personal experience, and craft it into a polished performance piece. The five-week interactive class offers an opportunity for participants to take an anecdote or memory and learn how to shape it and give it the power it deserves. The course will end with a final concert where participants will share their stories with one another and also their invited guests. Prerequisite: Transformations is intended for those who have some storytelling experience. Others who would like to take the course should first contact the instructor at jeffrey_canton@yahoo.com. Click here to register.
STORYTELLING I: FIRST STEPS
Location: Tarragon Theatre Studio, 30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto, ON
Course Fee: $310.75 ($275.00 + HST)
Nov 18 Friday / 7-10pm EST
Nov 19 Saturday / 10- 4:30pm EST
Nov 20 Sunday / 10-4:30pm EST
Are you a story lover and listener who needs a little encouragement to become a storyteller? With 40 years of experience, Marylyn Peringer will lead you through riddles, rhymes and personal stories into the realm of traditional folktales, a perfect model for all kinds of storytelling. You'll choose a folktale from the material supplied by the instructor and learn it through a series of interactive partnered activities designed to deepen the connection between the teller and the story. By the end of the course everyone will tell their story and receive helpful feedback. Click here to register.
IMPROV FOR STORYTELLERS ONLINE
Location: Zoom
Course Fee: $101.70 ($90.00 + HST )
Nov 22 Tuesday / 6:30-9pm EST
Nov 29 Tuesday / 6:30-9pm EST
Same course as above, but will take place over Zoom! Prerequisite: This course is open to anyone who has taken an introductory storytelling course, from Storytelling Toronto or elsewhere. Click here to register.
THE MASTERCLASS ONLINE
Location: Zoom
Course Fee: $536.75 ($475.00 + HST )
Nov 3 Thursday / 7-9:30pm EST
Nov 10 Thursday / 7-9:30pm EST
Nov 17 Thursday / 7-9:30pm EST
Nov 24 Thursday / 7-9:30pm EST
Dec 1 Thursday / 7-9:30pm EST
Jan 5 Thursday / 7-9:30pm EST
Jan 12 Thursday / 7-9:30pm EST
Jan 19 Thursday / 7-9:30pm EST
Jan 26 Thursday / 7-9:30pm ES
Storytelling is an art form, and storytellers develop their art over all the years they tell stories. This course offers experienced tellers a chance to work on a challenging story with other alike tellers. The story may be traditional, contemporary or personal. Storytelling is an art form, and storytellers develop their art over all the years they tell stories. This course offers experienced tellers a chance to work on a challenging story with their peers. The story may be traditional, contemporary or personal. Participants will come to the course with a story (or possibly two) with the clear intention to work through their story – responding to and discussing it – with other participants under the guidance of Master Storyteller Celia Lottridge. The course will culminate in a Gala Concert with an invited audience. Prerequisite: Interested tellers who wish to talk with Celia about the Master Class are invited to email her to arrange a conversation. celia.lottridge0104@gmail.com. Click here to register.