Guest workshop dates and details
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Susan Perow | Bridget Brandon | Chardi Christian| Ashley Ramsden |
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Ffrances Ingram (Sydney)MothersFfrances Ingram who will lead a two day workshop entitled 'Fabricating our Mothers'. Ffranses’s work is concerned with notions of the domestic and our first encounter with domesticity in the world is usually with our mothers. In this two-day workshop, participants will be guided to explore their relationship with their mother by storyboards. Both oral and visual language will be used to bring these stories into being. Images of mothers will also be explored briefly through fairytales. Using the tea towel, perhaps the most undervalued and most used domestic item, yet used as presents and an endless medium for advertising, art, holidays, participants will create an art piece of story to hang in their home. No art experience is necessary and materials will be provided. Participants are asked to bring along photos, buttons, favourite pieces of material, momentoes or anything that inspires.>/p> Welsh born, Ffrances Ingram has been a storyteller since 1978. She has performed nationally and internationally as well as facilitating workshops for thirty years. Her children's stories have been screened on national television and she writes for the NSW Education Department magazine. She is currently represented in the Sculpture in the Vineyards and is very thrilled to have won the Leichardt Council prize for Like Art, Street Art having started art later in life. The workshop is a non-residential weekend to be held in Byron Shire on and deposits are due soon. |
Venue: Participant's house Mullumbimby Byron area |
Susan PerrowStorytelling for ChildrenWith simple props from nature and simple handmade puppets, this workshop explores ways to help parents, early childhood teachers and carers put down the book and become tellers of stories. |
Venue: TBA Mullumbimby Byron area |
Therapeutic StorytellingTechniques for writing healing stories for children will be shared in this workshop. Susan Perrow established Periwinkle Early Childhood Centre, wrote the first storytelling course in an Australian University (SCU) and has trained early childhood teachers in Australia and Africa in storytelling. Her book on Therapeutic Storytelling is soon to be published in the U.K. |
Venue: TBA Mullumbimby Byron area |
Bridget Brandon (Sydney)Writing the Stories of Your LifeLife Writing is a rich source of laughter, wisdom and community. It takes you on a journey through the layers of your life’s meaning. Your writing skills will evolve naturally and quickly. You don’t need to be a writer; you’ll be given a variety of creative approaches to enter your story. Creative “jumpstarts” to memory gets your pen onto the page and keeps it flowing. These quiet days offer a fluid space for solitude, being with nature, intimacy with others, and meditation. You will gain confidence in bringing your writing alive; develop your listening and storytelling skills; value your life experience; gain appreciation of your spontaneity and creativity and learn the value of story. Bridget Brandon was the founder of the innovative Drama Action Centre in Sydney. She established Storyworks Australia in 1997. Storyworks teaches people how to write the story of their own lives. Along with a vibrant creative career Bridget is a devoted meditator. Her deep practice of compassion gives her a unique ability to listen and to value the small and the large stories of life. |
Venue: TBA Mullumbimby Byron area |
Chardi Christian (USA)Vasalisa Soul Doll |
Venue: TBA Mullumbimby Byron area Price: $200 Dates: TBA Catering: TBA |
Ashley Ramsden (UK)Oct-Nov 2008 |
Venue: TBA Mullumbimby Byron area |