Workshop: Building Oral Narratives: The Practical Construction o
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Date: Mar. 03, 2012
Start Time: 1:00 AM
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Workshop description:
Drawing on her experiences as an award-winning storyteller, author, and editor, Del Negro will discuss effective narrative structure and word-craft. Group and individual exercises, including word and language games, will focus on the creation of potent visual language for openings, closings, and characterizations. Participants will successfully complete concrete tasks related to their own working stories, as well as acquire tools for future story-crafting.
Janice Del Negro is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, where she teaches Storytelling, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, and Foundations in Library and Information Science. Del Negro has been a featured speaker, storyteller, and workshop leader at the National Storytelling Festival, the Illinois Library Association, the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, the Illinois Storytelling Festival, and many other celebratory events. Her specialties include retelling traditional folktales, reading motivation through literature and storytelling, and transformation stories, with a gentle emphasis on women and ghosts.
Cost: $30 adults, $20 students.
Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana.
Contact: Kim Sheahan at 217-244-3355 or ksheahan@illinois.edu
