“Performance Storytelling” is a one-day CDS Continuing Education workshop (Saturday, November 12, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; bring a bag lunch) that will explore the process of developing a short personal narrative to be told in front of an audience. Students, with instructor guidance, will begin by analyzing successful stories and performances at “The Monti StorySLAM,” a popular monthly storytelling series in Durham, and will then each develop and workshop original (and true) stories. By the end of the class, students will be well on their way to being able to perform their pieces in public.
This video, “Story Catcher,” was made by Lauren Hart as her final project in an undergraduate Documentary Studies class taught by CDS instructor Gary Hawkins—”Documentary Experience: A Video Approach.”
Jeff Polish is the founder and director of “The Monti,” and he has been hosting shows and telling stories for the monthly event since it debuted in April 2008. He has appeared on WUNC radio’s The State of Things and has also produced a series for WUNC called Stories from the Shelf, which features stories from North Carolinians.
