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Event Name:
Interactive Storytelling
Competency:
Programming
Description:
Join Storyteller Lindsay Bonilla for this immersive, hands-on half day workshop on storytelling. This workshop will get participants thinking about ways to actively involve the audience in their tellings. Reasons for interactive storytelling, how to choose appropriate material and different levels of audience participation will be discussed. Opportunities to develop stories and make them interactive will also be given. Also, tips for how to learn a story so you can tell it instead of read it; how to approach a story or picture book and find ways to make it interactive; how to involve the audience through kinesthetic and vocal participation; how to use simple props and puppets to engage audience members; additional dramatic techniques to help bring stories to life.
Please note: Attendees are asked to bring a picture book with them to the workshop.
Presenter:
Lindsay Bonilla can’t remember a time in her life when she’s wasn’t immersed in a world of stories. She spent most of her childhood devouring books, scribbling stories in her notebook, and dramatically acting out her own “plays” on the front porch. Today Lindsay shares her love of stories and the stage through her company, World of Difference Ltd., where she performs interactive folktales while teaching about foreign countries and cultures, inspiring the imagination and promoting a love for learning and literacy.
Lindsay is an avid writer, having written poetry, picture books, skits, magazine articles even screenplays. She has four published children’s books (Lily and the City of Light, Lily and the Return to Htrae, ‘Twas the Year Christ Left Christmas, and O Christmas Tree) and two DVD films, Flight to India and Voyage to Russia, based on some of her most popular storytelling programs. She is always working on one, two or ten different picture book ideas!
Lindsay is a graduate of Northwestern University, where her studies focused on theatre, creative dramatics, storytelling, and world religions. Before founding her own company she performed and taught locally for such organizations as Magical Theatre Company and Malone University. She also spent a year and a half in Madrid where she toured Spain and Portugal with Interacting, an audience-participatory theatre company that used interactive performances to teach English to speakers of other languages. Lindsay’s love for world travel has taken her to five continents, and she has performed and taught in such places as Ghana, Haiti, Argentina and most recently, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Lindsay lives in North Canton, Ohio where you can often find her speaking Spanish with her Colombian-born husband, Estith; telling superhero stories to her sons Rafael and Alejandro; and running with their one-of-a-kind rescue dog, Blitzen.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please note: Attendees are asked to bring a picture book with them to the workshop.
Presenter:
Lindsay Bonilla can’t remember a time in her life when she’s wasn’t immersed in a world of stories. She spent most of her childhood devouring books, scribbling stories in her notebook, and dramatically acting out her own “plays” on the front porch. Today Lindsay shares her love of stories and the stage through her company, World of Difference Ltd., where she performs interactive folktales while teaching about foreign countries and cultures, inspiring the imagination and promoting a love for learning and literacy.
Lindsay is an avid writer, having written poetry, picture books, skits, magazine articles even screenplays. She has four published children’s books (Lily and the City of Light, Lily and the Return to Htrae, ‘Twas the Year Christ Left Christmas, and O Christmas Tree) and two DVD films, Flight to India and Voyage to Russia, based on some of her most popular storytelling programs. She is always working on one, two or ten different picture book ideas!
Lindsay is a graduate of Northwestern University, where her studies focused on theatre, creative dramatics, storytelling, and world religions. Before founding her own company she performed and taught locally for such organizations as Magical Theatre Company and Malone University. She also spent a year and a half in Madrid where she toured Spain and Portugal with Interacting, an audience-participatory theatre company that used interactive performances to teach English to speakers of other languages. Lindsay’s love for world travel has taken her to five continents, and she has performed and taught in such places as Ghana, Haiti, Argentina and most recently, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Lindsay lives in North Canton, Ohio where you can often find her speaking Spanish with her Colombian-born husband, Estith; telling superhero stories to her sons Rafael and Alejandro; and running with their one-of-a-kind rescue dog, Blitzen.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Event Date:
4/12/2018
Event Time:
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern
Location:
Westlake Porter Public Library
27333 Center Ridge Road
Westlake, OH 44145
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Westlake, OH 44145
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Contact Person:
Rachelle Perry
(phone: 330-655-0531)
(phone: 330-655-0531)
Details:
Who should attend: Anyone interested in learning about interactive storytelling
Competency: Programming
GEO Cost: $80
Bronze Cost: $60
Silver Cost: $40
Gold Cost: FREE
The speaker for Interactive Storytelling is generously funded through a gift from the Leigh and Mary Carter Family Foundation.
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Competency: Programming
GEO Cost: $80
Bronze Cost: $60
Silver Cost: $40
Gold Cost: FREE
The speaker for Interactive Storytelling is generously funded through a gift from the Leigh and Mary Carter Family Foundation.
It’s never too late to save your library money. NEO-RLS Memberships are pro-rated! Call us today to join.
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