So would you like to tell stories? – A Basic Story Telling course

Dates: June 20 – July 12, 2014
Days: Fridays and Saturdays
Timings: 4 pm to 6 pm
Fees: Rs. 2500/-
Age: 18 +

For some people it’s part of their job; as teachers, parents, librarians, healers or in business; but many people want to tell stories simply because they love them and feel compelled to tell them. Whatever the reason, as soon as you say, ‘Once upon a time … you step into a long tradition of storytellers.

Storytelling is social art that begins with a conversation between you and the story. Just like any good conversation, you need to be interested who you’re talking to, and you don’t always know what you’re going to say next or how your listener will respond!

Whether you’ve told many stories before and want to work on your skills, or whether you’re hoping to tell your first story soon, in this course, we’re going to go through a process which will help you, through a sequence of inner discovery and outward engagement to understand and practice different aspects of storytelling which will help you with any story you would want to tell.

As the storyteller Mary-Sue Siegel once said, “Storytelling is like growing up in public.” Storytellers constantly bare their souls. The listeners too sense how much inner work has preceded the telling. It becomes a measure of how deeply the storyteller has engaged with a story, and, equally, with life. In this way, who you are is writ large in the stories you choose to tell and how you choose to tell them.

The course will be conducted by city based storyteller Peter Viegas