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Storytelling for Community Building and Social Change Series

Storytelling for Community Building and Social Change

It is not enough to know there is a problem, you have to understand how and why your participation matters. This is the gift of stories. These are hands-on working sessions designed to teach specific story based techniques for social change.

Two-hour Zoom sessions at 7:00 PM Central on Tuesdays, May 16, 23, 30, June 6 and 13th. You can sign up for one or all.

  • Taught by Loren Niemi
  • Dates: Tuesdays, May 16, 23, 30, June 6 and 13th
  • Time: 7pm Central Time
  • Format: 2-hour Zoom session
  • Cost: $90
  1. The Uses of Storytelling in Community Building and Social Change. Tuesday, May 16th -What it is and why it matters. What kinds of stories can they use to frame their work and build participation?
  2. Story Circles, Tuesday, May 23rd – What Story CIrcles are and how to use them to build shared experience across age, gender and political persuasion..
  3. The Fact and Practice of Oral History, Tuesday. May 30th  How collecting and sharing personal, and organizational experience builds engagement.
  4. Message Framing, Tuesday, June 6th The practical mechanisms for refining stories to meet the needs of social change.
  5. Effective Testimony and Presentations on Tuesday, June 13th. How to tell your critical story in three minutes of testimony. How to  balance the particularly human experience  and the larger issue(s) you are working on.

Taught by Loren Niemi, and based on his 50 years of community organizing and advocacy training with large and small organizations, BIPOC, LGBTQ and immigrant communities.


To register:

    1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
    2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Effective Testimony and Presentations

Storytelling for Community Building and Social Change

It is not enough to know there is a problem, you have to understand how and why your participation matters. This is the gift of stories. These are hands-on working sessions designed to teach specific story based techniques for social change.

Five two-hour Zoom sessions at 7:00 PM Central on Tuesdays, May 16, 23, 30, June 6 and 13th. You can sign up for one or all.

Effective Testimony and Presentations: on Tuesday, June 13th. How to tell your critical story in three minutes of testimony. How to  balance the particularly human experience  and the larger issue(s) you are working on.

  • Taught by Loren Niemi
  • Dates: Tuesday, June 13
  • Time: 7pm Central Time
  • Format: 2-hour Zoom session
  • Cost: $20

    To register:

    1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
    2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Message Framing

Storytelling for Community Building and Social Change

It is not enough to know there is a problem, you have to understand how and why your participation matters. This is the gift of stories. These are hands-on working sessions designed to teach specific story based techniques for social change.

Five, two-hour Zoom sessions at 7:00 PM Central on Tuesdays, May 16, 23, 30, June 6 and 13th. You can sign up for one or all.

Message Framing: Tuesday, June 6th The practical mechanisms for refining stories to meet the needs of social change. 

  • Taught by Loren Niemi
  • Dates: Tuesday, June 6
  • Time: 7pm Central Time
  • Format: 2-hour Zoom session
  • Cost: $20

    To register:

    1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
    2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

The Fact and Practice of Oral History

Storytelling for Community Building and Social Change

It is not enough to know there is a problem, you have to understand how and why your participation matters. This is the gift of stories. These are hands-on working sessions designed to teach specific story based techniques for social change.

Five, two-hour Zoom sessions at 7:00 PM Central on Tuesdays, May 16, 23, 30, June 6 and 13th. You can sign up for one or all.

The Fact and Practice of Oral History: Tuesday. May 30th  How collecting and sharing personal, and organizational experience builds engagement.

  • Taught by Loren Niemi
  • Dates: Tuesday, May 30
  • Time: 7pm Central Time
  • Format: 2-hour Zoom session
  • Cost: $20

    To register:

    1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
    2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Story Circles

Storytelling for Community Building and Social Change

It is not enough to know there is a problem, you have to understand how and why your participation matters. This is the gift of stories. These are hands-on working sessions designed to teach specific story based techniques for social change.

Five, two-hour Zoom sessions at 7:00 PM Central on Tuesdays, May 16, 23, 30, June 6 and 13th. You can sign up for one or all.

Story Circles: Tuesday, May 23rd – What Story CIrcles are and how to use them to build shared experience across age, gender and political persuasion..

  • Taught by Loren Niemi
  • Dates: Tuesday, May 23
  • Time: 7pm Central Time
  • Format: 2-hour Zoom session
  • Cost: $20

    To register:

    1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
    2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Uses of Storytelling in Community Building and Social Change

Storytelling for Community Building and Social Change

It is not enough to know there is a problem, you have to understand how and why your participation matters. This is the gift of stories. These are hands-on working sessions designed to teach specific story based techniques for social change.

Five, two-hour Zoom sessions at 7:00 PM Central on Tuesdays, May 16, 23, 30, June 6 and 13th. You can sign up for one or all.

Uses of Storytelling in Community Building and Social Change: Tuesday, May 16th- What it is and why it matters. What kinds of stories can they use to frame their work and build participation?

  • Taught by Loren Niemi
  • Dates: Tuesday, May 16
  • Time: 7pm Central Time
  • Format: 2-hour Zoom session
  • Cost: $20

    To register:

    1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
    2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Sharing the Fire

Loren Niemi will be teaching “A Rose by Any Other Name: the Erotic in Stories” workshop Saturday, March 25th 10:30 AM ET & performing “Fata Morgana” 90-minute performance on Saturday, March 25th 1:30 PM ET at the Sharing the Fire conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Registration www.nestorytelling.org/stf-2023-registration/

 

 

Poetry Readings as Performance- Free Event!

April is National Poetry Month and you can get ready for it with “Poetry Readings as Performance”, a two hour in-person workshop on reading your poetry (and prose) as if it mattered. The focus is on the orality of spoken words and some simple techniques to help you be a better presenter of your own work.

  • Taught by Loren Niemi
  • Dates: Wednesday March 28
  • Time: 7pm Central Time
  • Format: 90-minute, in-person
  • Cost: FREE!

Introduction to Traditional Stories

This is a five session introduction to finding, learning and confidently telling traditional folk, cultural, and fairytales.

Iin July and August the American School of Storytelling will offer a 5 session Introduction to Traditional Stories. Taught by Loren Niemi and Diane Edgecomb, it will include how to find, learn and confidently tell traditional stories. It will also explore creating contemporary or braided variations and the necessary cautions of cultural appropriation.

Online (Zoom) Wednesday nights from 6:00-7:30 PM Central time July 13, 20, 27, August 3 and 10th. Priced at $100 for all five sessions, this will be both informative and fun, whether you want to tell a lighthearted Goldilocks and the 3 Bears or the darker shadow of the Brothers Grimm’s Bearskin.