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Category: Storytelling News
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Feb 18 2021
Workshoping with feature Rebecca Anderson
Rebecca Anderson is co-pastor at two Chicago churches. You can find her on Sunday mornings at Bethany UCC in Ravenswood (BethanyChicago.com), and Sunday evenings at Gilead, a queer, storytelling, bar church on Chicago’s north side — now a queer, storytelling, mostly-online church — that she planted with friend and colleague Vince Amlin (GileadChicago.org). Rebecca’s been …
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Feb 17 2021
Workshop! Workshop! Featuring Sean Wellington
Sean (Wellington) is a displaced NYer living in NC. He has never published a book, climbed a big mountain or mastered an instrument. He is, however, the founder of GRIT: True Stories that Matter, which produces weekly events, kickass workshops and two podcasts. And he is grateful to be workshoping with the rest of the …
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Feb 11 2021
Heidi Grandberry Featuring
Heidi Grandberry was brought into this world against her will. Her childhood was spent in the Midwest where she became fluent in the language of Passive Aggression. Her comedy is dark while simultaneously engaging and thoughtful.
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Feb 08 2021
A Quick Example of Narrator Vs Character
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. I want to continue with the theme from the post the other day where we talked about how in first person narrative, you as the narrator is separate from you as a …
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Feb 05 2021
Storytelling as Theater
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. In storytelling you are always aware, as narrator, that the audience is there. You’re talking directly to specific people in that crowd, you’re making eye contact and connecting with them. One trick …
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Feb 04 2021
Andrew Rios will be featuring at Workshop! Workshop!
Andrew Rios is a story artist, filmmaker, designer, all around creative, world’s greatest dad and husband. He’s good friends with Mac MacDevitt. Andrew is psyched to workshop with us and we are equally excited to see what he’s currently working on. You can catch us at twitch.tv/storyluck. Monday at 6pm Central. Here is a link to …
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Feb 02 2021
Character Vs Narrator Where is Your Sympathy
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. Building off of what we talked about the other day, which is the concept that you as 1st person narrator can be separate from you as a character. This gives you a …
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Jan 30 2021
Character Vs Narrator as Storytelling Concept
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. One idea that’s intuitive to implement in terms of storytelling, is the idea that you as a narrator are separate from the you as a character in your story. But it’s learned …
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Jan 30 2021
99 Second Stories
We love this new genre. Embrace the 99 second format. We want to encourage you to tell your own 99 second stories. We want to encourage you to work on this video form. Play around with the video functions on your phone or your computer. Experiment with backgrounds. I think there are more performers out …
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The Hot Girl Game is Best Played with Women You Trust. (A Bad Feminist Story.)
“Dan, do you want to play the hot girl game?”
Valarie is one of my oldest Chicago friends and she is coy with sly winks, and surprise happy shouts you come to expect. This mirth is tempered by the…
Reasons I Don’t Use the Word Feminist Out Loud
Growing up an early Millennial all my female friends would say, “I’m not a feminist.”
This would follow a string of feminist beliefs they did hold. And I’d say, “Yeah. I’m for all that.” And they’d explain, they didn’t like the…
Today's the last day of my Easter holiday and I'm going to make it a build day.
After probably 25 years of thinking about it, I'm going to finally build myself a website.
Will update this thread as I go.
I am addicted to rock climbing and I hate every minute of it.
For years, I’d poo-pooed rock climbing.
Why wouldn’t I go running instead?
Now that I’ve tried it… I know… running would be way healthier and more efficient. (Swimmers are giving me the, “If you really want a…
