Fact to Story to Action: Creating Stories for Positive Change
Master Class with Beth Horner
Friday, October 15 from 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time
There’s just something about a story or song that brings things into focus a whole lot sharper than any stack of statistics. Jerome Wheeler, Songwriter/Character/Community Activist.
Based on her workshops for NASA Astrobiologists and her stories “Pipeline Blues”, “Three Soldiers: Three Stories” and “The Disability Dance”, Beth presents activities illustrating her eight guiding principles and 12 essential questions for transforming a pendantic book report into a dynamic, vivid, intriguing, entertaining story to inspire positive change. Practical, hands-on, always fun.
$50
Additional purchase required. Not included in the full festival pass. Class space is limited
Character Inside Out with Eva Abram
Saturday, October 16 from 9:00 – 10 a.m. Pacific Time
This workshop is for anyone who wants to tell compelling stories by giving your characters qualities that demand attention. Eva will guide you through exercises that will help you take your story to the next level, whether a family story, folktale or any genre of story. Bring a story with no more than two characters to work on. Come willing to play!
Register to participate.
Included with Full Festival Pass or available with Saturday a la carte purchase options.
In Your Write Mind with Sam Payne
Saturday, October 16 from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time
Storytellers ought to write. If you’re not writing a little bit every day, great thoughts that could become stories may be escaping! Learn to generate and capture those thoughts by getting into a few good writing habits – habits that very likely won’t even interrupt other parts of your life (as good as writing is for you, “other parts” are good too!). This workshop will get you writing, keep you writing, and help you get your writing on its feet and on stage. Learn a few simple rules to live by and get your hands on a couple of exercises that will have you swimming in great ideas.
Register to participate.
Included in Full Festival Pass or available with Saturday a la carte purchase options.
