Bringing Stories Expressively to Life
This interactive workshop explores the power of imagination. Through lecture, demonstration, and playful verbal improvisation, participants will examine how the use of imagination can bring a storyteller’s tales to life by inspiring expressiveness in words, the sound of words, facial expression, body language, and gesture
About Heather Forest
Heather Forest is an award-winning storyteller, author, and musician. A pioneer in the American storytelling renaissance, her repertoire of world tales told in a fusion of poetry, prose, original music and the sung and spoken word has been featured in theatres, schools, conferences and major storytelling festivals throughout the United States and abroad. She is an author of seventeen folktale books and storytelling recordings and holds a PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. She is a recipient of the National Storytelling Network’s (USA) Circle of Excellence Award and the 2021 Talking Leaves Award. She is also an organic farmer. Please visit her website to find out more www.heatherforest.com