A stone or a boat? Storytelling with unusual props

Course details

In this workshop for adults, you will learn how to tell or retell stories to children using unusual props. The unusual props will be open ended materials, which are easily sourced and enhance the imagery of children, making storytelling more engaging. By understanding how to structure stories, you will be able to make up your own as well as improvise the retelling of familiar stories.

Aims

Learn how to:

identify characters, setting, actions and emotions

draw a storymap

tell stories with props

use open ended materials as props to tell stories

use space and materials to involve your audience

give and receive constructive feedbackABOUT THE TRAINER: ANA SOUSA GAVIN
Ana Sousa Gavin
Ana Sousa Gavin holds a BSc in Psychology and a Specialist Diploma in Early Years Education. She teaches StoryPlay and StoryArt to young children at the Singapore American School. She is a member of the Storytelling Association Singapore. I believe that the human mind is wired to think in story form. Young children have little life experience thus think better in concrete terms rather than in abstract. Props provide concrete tools to work on a story and manipulate thoughts.

REGISTRATION DETAILS
10% discount for Kinokuniya Privilege Card Members!
Please register for the workshop via alap@bookcouncil.sg with workshop title, name, membership and contact no. to enjoy the discount.

Minimum Maximum Number of Participants: 10 30 pax
Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis and workshop fees must be paid before the workshop. If the minimum number of participants is not met for the class, the organisers will inform all participants about possible postponement and cancellation of workshop, two weeks before the workshop date.

All ALAP workshops serve tea-breaks and provide course handouts.

Cancellation & Substitution
Fees paid are non-refundable but transferable. Fees will be refunded in the event of a cancellation of workshop if participant wishes not to transfer the fees which have been paid to another workshop Requests for cancellation must be made two weeks before the workshop date. A cancellation charge of 50% of the full course fee will be applicable for requests made later than two weeks before the workshop date. Upon registration, you are deemed to have read and understood the registration procedures and accepted the terms contained therein.

Registration opens 1 February 2015