Verbarium

StoryLab 2024

A summer weekend workshop of storytelling for beginners and elementary level

Topics

• Conditions for public performing
• Confluence and cooperation with partners on the scene (stage) and with the listeners
• Condition and openness to improvise (blow snakes) and the skills to „pustit fantazii na špacír“ (let go of your fantasy)
• Story structuring
• Speaker’s tools: word, speech, voice, gesture, rhytm

The StoryLab is mainly focused on a spoken word, not a written one.

The workshop is suitable for all lecturers of educational programms for children, teachers, students of (not only) the arts, managers and everyone who use the storytelling as a tool for a development of their praxis.

Michala Piskačová leads the organisation Verbarium, she has organised the International storytelling festival in Českých Budějovicích since 2017, she studied theatrical science at FFUK in Prague (department of authorial creation and teaching). She has been interested in storytelling since 2004. She also wrote her dissertation thesis on this topic. She has attended numerous courses and storytelling workshops with (not only) European well-known personalities (experts, professionals), such as Jan Blake, Nick Hennessey, Claire Murphy, Ben Haggarty, Dan Yashinski, Stella Kassematy, Roy Gal Ore, and Martin Hak.

Date & venue

• Date: 26. – 28. 7. 2024
• Where | House of pilgrimage Lomec – a monastry in the heart of South Bohemia, near Vodňany
• Organised by| Verbarium z. s.
• Lecturer | Michala Piskačová
• Price | 3500 Kč full price | 2500 Kč for students, parents on maternity/paternity leave, pensioners and a discount for groups over 3 people
• Accommodation and full board in the monastry | 700 Kč/person per day – not included in the price of the workshop
• Capacity | max 12 people – min 5 people (persons)
• Schedule | Friday 6pm – 8pm | Saturday 9am – 12pm + 1pm – 4pm + 6pm – 8pm | Sunday 9am – 12pm + 1pm – 4pm

Contact

spolekverbarium@gmail.com
+420 603 181 612