Tag: Workshop
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Story Your Fringe Show Online
It’s the season for Fringe. It’s one thing to apply and another to have a stage worthy performance. This two session, online workshop will move your idea to story and necessary staging for a 55-minute Fringe show. You bring the concept, American School of Storytelling Founder, Loren Niemi, who has done at least one Fringe…
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Build Your Fringe Show
It’s the season for getting Fringe applications in. It’s one thing to apply and another to have a stage worthy performance. This two session, in person workshop will move your idea to story and necessary staging for a 55-minute Fringe show. You bring the concept, American School of Storytelling Founder, Loren Niemi, who has done…
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Brenda Varda’s Songwriting Workshop
In Brenda Varda’s Songwriting Workshop, we consider well-known lyric examples (and lesser known), looking for ways that your words can incorporate rhyme, rhythm, imagery, and metaphor within common structures of song. The second half of the class will be an opportunity to do a first draft based on your ideas. To register: Add the…
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Poetry Through the Larynx
Trobriand Islanders say that the larynx is the seat of moral intelligence. The larynx provides us with a unique ability to communicate our ideas, memories, and experiences. Poetry is always an attempt to refine a sense of balance through language, for one’s own life and the lives of those around us. In this workshop we…
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Beginnings and Endings
The invitation for the audience to enter the story can be more complicated than “Once upon a time…”. Similarly, the ending often deserves more than a rote “Happily ever after..” This two session hands-on workshop will explore how to strengthen the beginnings and endings of your chosen stories, whether personal or traditional. Taught online…
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Poetics of Storytelling with Laura Simms
The Poetics of Storytelling is a luscious hands-on dive into the unique and powerful aspects of engaged storytelling today: the special role of the narrative; the grail of braiding stories; and the nature of storytelling as agency for imagination and compassion. We will all work with the same story. You will learn new enriching techniques…
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Beginnings and Endings
The invitation for the audience to enter the story can be more complicated than “Once upon a time…”. Similarly, the ending often deserves more than a rote “Happily ever after..” This two session hands-on workshop will explore how to strengthen the beginnings and endings of your chosen stories, whether personal or traditional. Taught online…
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Haikus, Limericks & Very Short Poems
A two hour workshop open to any level of experience and taught by the Founder, Loren Niemi and Howard Lieberman, this will be a hands-on and fun experience. NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options. To register:…
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Wedding Toasts and Roasts
Coming Saturday, March 1st, 1:00-4:00 PM – an in-person workshop on “Wedding Toasts and Roasts” for all you who have been asked by friends and/or relatives to offer the traditional humorous / heartfelt celebratory toast at a too soon wedding. Practice structuring and delivering a speech that straddles the line between expectation and appreciation without…
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Story Your Fringe Show
Show us your MN Fringe button at the door and get a $10 rebate on this class! It’s the season for getting Fringe applications in. It’s one thing to apply and another to have a stage worthy performance. This three-hour in-person workshop will move from idea to story and necessary staging for a 55-minute Fringe…