Winter StoryFest

January 29-30, 2010

at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta (UUCA)
1911 Cliff Valley Way, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329

(Directions)

Advanced Sale of Tickets Ended January 22, but Tickets are Available at the Door!

Below, you can read the pre-registration program for more information and door pricing:

WSF 2010 Pre-Registration Form - Front cover (pg 1).pdf
WSF 2010 Pre-Registration Form - Schedule & info (pg 2).pdf
WSF 2010 Pre-registration - Ticket Order Form(pg 3).pdf
WSF 2010 Pre-Registration Form -  Back cover (pg 4).pdf

FEATURED STORYTELLER, 8:00 PM SATURDAY NIGHT

Dolores Hydock, performing “Silence: The Adventure of a Medieval  Warrior Woman,” accompanied by early music ensemble, PanHarmonium.

Silence is a wickedly funny, plot-twisting tale of greed, lust, deceit, revenge, and the rewards and sacrifices that come from finding your true voice. Based on a story written in the 13th century, and adapted for 21st-century audiences, Silence tells of a girl raised as a boy to protect her inheritance, since women were not allowed to inherit property in the England of the day. At crucial points in her life, the story’s main character — a kind of 13th-century Annie Oakley — must choose the weapon with which she’ll face the world: a jeweled sword or a sewing needle!

SOS SHOWCASE OF TELLERS, 8:00 PM FRIDAY NIGHT

Ernestine Brown, Jane Hinds, & Betty Ann Wylie
Emcee & Coordinator: Barry Stewart Mann

FAMILY TELLING, SATURDAY MORNING

Both Hours: Mary Williams, Teller & Emcee
10:00: Mary Williams, Ann Ritter, & Nancy Riggs
11:00: June Causey, Jo Sanders, & Deborah Strahorn

TRADITIONAL CONCERT, 1:00 PM SATURDAY

Esther Culver, Ron Kemp, & Jonah McDonald

CONTEMPORARY CONCERT, 2:15 PM SATURDAY

Audrey Galex, Yolanda Hernandez, & Sharon Mathis

KIDS TELLING, 3:30 PM SATURDAY

Natalie Jones & Her Youth Workshop Participants

FAMILY FRIENDLY CONCERT, 4:00 PM SATURDAY

Joye Cauthen, Laura Keys-David, & Bob Linsenmayer
Emcee: LaDoris Bias-Davis

WORKSHOPS

Shhh…Don’t Tell!  Storytelling Secrets Stolen from other Art Forms – Dolores Hydock

Friday, 3:00pm – Session 1: Toons and Tales: What Animated Films Can Teach About Storytelling

Animated short films deliver characters, conflict, resolution, and, frequently, an emotional punch in a very short time, with no wasted words — sometimes with no words at all! Come explore how the art of animation can help you create “the artfully told story.”

Friday, 4:30pm  – Session 2: Most of What I Needed to Know about Storytelling I Learned in Dance Class

The story teller and story listener engage in a kind of dance that can feel as graceful as the winning number in “Dancing with the Stars” or as awkward as a seventh-grade cotillion. What makes the difference? Dolores Hydock has discovered that there are secrets of balance, trust, communication, and style common to both dancing and storytelling.

Saturday, 9:30am – Session 3: Exit Stage Left: Acting Secrets for Storytellers

Acting and storytelling are different versions of a similar art: taking audiences on a journey of emotion and imagination. This workshop explores some of the techniques actors know about expression and communication that can be useful to storytellers: claiming space, connecting with an audience, staying focused, remembering words, reaction and interaction, preparation, and other topics. Come discover secrets to help you when you take the storytelling stage!

Basic Storytelling Skills – John Beavin

Saturday, 9:30 – 11:30am

Do you want to tell stories but just aren’t sure where to begin? Do you want to improve your skills as a storyteller? If you answered, “yes,” to either of these questions, this is the workshop for you.

Youth Storytelling Workshop – Natalie Jones

Saturday, 1:00pm – 3:15pm (Culminates in a performance at 3:30pm)

There are so many ways to tell a story.  Natalie Jones, a teacher, librarian and former Park Ranger teaches story skills to students using a variety of techniques. Through exercises, small and large group interactions and demonstrations, workshop participants can find the best match for their storytelling aspirations. The techniques encompass multiple learning styles, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and musical. Participants are likely to find success in the workshop, to discover talents and have fun exploring. Here are a few of those techniques.  Tickets for Youth Tellers are $8.

Story Motion: Exercises to build imaginary machines and animals part by part. One student begins, and the others join build a moving project.

Character Charades: Can you guess who I am by the way I move? Students will present different occupations through movement while the others guess.

Instant Improv: Students begin to vocalize in pairs, acting out characters in a certain situation.  Pairs will draw slips of paper with assigned scenes, like the following: A parent teaching  (his/her) child to roller skate.

Puppets tell the Stories: Groups will use a variety of hand puppets to plan and perform short skits, based on familiar folk tales.

Group Story: Students will tell a story one sentence at a time, listening and adding on to what has come before.

Small Group Fables: Small groups will use one of Aesop’s short tales to tell a tale using a narrator and actors.

Story Demonstration: Natalie will tell a folktale for further exploration

Storyboard: Students will draw the demonstrated folktale in 6 frames, capturing their impressions of the story in images.

Storyboard Action: Students will act out their storyboards in group freeze-frames, bringing their images to life

And… the young tellers will perform on the Mainstage Performance Space at the end of the workshop.