Story Telling Wednesday

Every Wednesday we post about the value of story telling.  For San Francisco based story tellers, those in the know and those growing into their comfort zone, I thought I would share resources to refine your art.

Event Brite here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/d/ca--san-francisco/storytelling-workshop/

lists great workshops in and around the Bay Area.

For example a story telling workshop with the esteemed Paula Junn is coming up in November at CIIS.

If you have a life, you have a story! We want to hear it!
This workshop will help you turn your experience into a 3-5 minute story! We will use sensory detail, journalistic questions, pauses and more to enhance the experience of telling and listening to stories.

Having prompts always help, so we will work with three (Where I am From • First Time • Learned the Hard Way)*. We will end with sharing the stories we crafted during this workshop.

Stories must be:
-       Your story, based on your experience
-       True
-       It must fit into a 3-5 minute time frame.

NO performance experience needed!

* Not limited to these prompts. These are designed to help you think of experiences to turn into stories.

Paula Junn is an interdisciplinary artist who works with stories, photography, and jewelry. She firmly believes in the power of storytelling as a tool to build communities. She aims to build an intentional, healthy community everywhere around her.
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WHEN
Friday, November 13, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PST) - Add to Calendar
WHERE
California Institute of Integral Studies - 1453 Mission Street. Area 5. San Francisco, CA 94103 - View Map

About Paula Junn:

Paula was born in North of New Jersey in the year of the boar. After she spent her childhood in New Jersey and Maryland, her family moved to Seoul, Korea when Paula was six. Her education was primarily done in standard Korean schools (from elementary to high school). Growing up she had dreams to be a comedian, a writer/poet, a linguist, but never an Artist.
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At the age of eighteen, she returned to the U.S. to pursue college and further studies. It was in college that she discovered that she had an artistic side and started to foster that side via imaginative drawing, photography, poetry, dance, and singing. Through working with different modalities is when she discovered the healing power of the Arts. She truly believes in that power to this day. 

Paula lived in Boston for eight years from 2006-2014, but she has since relocated to Oakland, California to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree at California Institute of Integral Studies for the Creative Inquiry & Interdisciplinary Arts program.  

Paula was involved in a nonprofit storytelling organization based in Boston called massmouth, inc., and she is ever so grateful to have been part of such a powerful movement of storytelling. 

Her goal in life is to be helpful to someone, somewhere, any time in this life, but she is working on the present the most.