FULLY BOOKED Saturday, January 18 and Sunday, January 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Please note that this activity has limited places and is complete. If you wish to be on the waitlist, please email us at info@morrin.org.

In this workshop, we will identify the ingredients of a compelling story and the best ways to tell it.

With a focus on listening and oral presentation, this workshop will help you develop your voice, hone your storytelling skills and develop a more profound sense of what makes a story worth sharing. We will analyze oral stories and do some written exercises to explore storytelling concepts and find a subject for our final stories, which will be performed at the end of the second day.

Over two days, we will explore together:

• The five essential elements of a great story – using the five senses to create evocative scenes
• Character and Plot: Turning yourself into a character and finding motive and action for your stories
• Structure and Endings
• Oral Vs. Written Stories: The Outline and Voice
• Performance: Rhythm and tempo, repetition, open vs closed postures, habitual muscular tensions and body centres

Immerse yourself in the storytelling practice!

Please note: by booking a ticket for January 18, you are automatically registered for the whole two-day workshop. January 18 attendance is required to attend the January 19 session.

Presenter Biography

Taylor Tower is a writer, performer and teacher based in Montreal. She grew up in Portland, Oregon and studied creative writing at Portland State University before moving to Montreal in 2006. She co-produced and co-hosted Confabulation, a monthly storytelling series, and performed at numerous storytelling events, including Literary Death Match, The Moth GrandSLAM, and The Moth MainStage.

Her writing has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour, which airs on 500 radio stations worldwide, as well as CBC Radio One’s WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein and Public Radio Remix. She has taught storytelling workshops to students of all ages at Confabulation, the Quebec Writers’ Federation, The Loft Literary Center and the Morrin Centre.