[Note: This class is slated to be an in-person event, but if COVID stats are not dropping by mid-October, we'll shift to an online format.]

Tickets $150.00
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This workshop is useful and motivating for writers, performers and storytellers of all levels, as well as artists crossing disciplines such as visual artists wanting to perform and storytellers wanting to paint.

The Experiences That Make Us is a perfect weekend intensive for those dipping their toes into storytelling waters for the first time, and for seasoned performers wanting to brush up on skills or focus on a new or challenging project. The 7-or-so hours of class include lecture, discussion, individual and group exercises, performance time, and feedback and critique. You’ll leave having developed and performed at least the first draft of a 5-7 minute true personal story, and will come away with tools for developing narrative material that are applicable to a wide variety of settings: theatre, story slams, written memoir, podcasts, TED talks, business presentations, and more.

Saturday consists of interactive exercises to help you identify rich, revealing and emotionally resonant stories from your life, including some exercises that utilize the visual art in the 1916 Gallery in which our class is held. We’ll also cover classic story structure; building conflict, stakes and dramatic arc; tools to create vivid, memorable scenes; and how to embrace your unique narrative voice. On Sunday, students will perform their stories in class, and receive in-depth feedback from their instructor and classmates. Bring a notebook and pen, laptop computer and/or cell phone with a “record” feature.

Actor, writer and storyteller Amy Salloway is a big fan of the Venn Diagram spot where live performance, empathy building and social change overlap. Her autobiographical solo plays  -- Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?, So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!, and Circumference -- have won awards at theatre festivals, colleges and communities across the US and Canada since 2003, earning her reviews like “raw and fearless,” “achingly honest and hysterically funny” and “the voice for all of us who were picked last for kickball.” Amy has contributed stories to radio programs on MPR and CBC, and is a performer and coach for the hit podcast "Risk!”. She also produces and hosts Story Club Minneapolis, happening monthly at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Uptown. Since 2015, Amy has been the Midwest instructor for The Story Studio, where she offers both public and corporate storytelling workshops as well as one-on-one coaching for every type of narrative work.

Feel free to visit Amy’s woefully-stagnant website www.amysalloway.com, or the much more current www.facebook.com/awkwardmomentonstage.