Workshops

Tell Your Tale

EXPLORING TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE THROUGH VISUAL STORYTELLING

  • We will explore visual storytelling using THE GIVING TREE by Shel Silverstein combined with the artwork of Paul Klee.
  • Participants will be asked to create a diary/notebook using artwork, symbolic imagery, figurative language, and code. The book will be personalized and focus on memories, resilience, hopes, dreams, and emergence from the pandemic.
  • Participants will then create their own Paul Klee style artwork.
  • Presented with Jean Simonette
  • 1-1.5 hours

Theatre and Common Core State Standards

Using movement, improvisation, scene study, and discussion; participants will explore this question: What is your American Dream? Primary source documents will include: a scene from Death of a Salesman, Langston Hughes poem “A Dream Deferred,” articles written when the play was first produced, and current articles on jobs of the future. Music from the period will also be used.
2 hours

Story Dramatization

Using discussion, storyboarding, tableau, improvisation and pantomime; participants will transform a story into a piece of theatre. Music and basic props will be used.
1-2 hours

*May be adjusted to work with teachers or students