Are you an experienced storyteller?

Do you have a storyteller vision you would like to develop?

This course is designed to support ‘Imagineurs’; imagination entrepreneurs, contemporary storytellers who dedicate their work to serve the living Earth, nature, and humanity in meeting with courage and imagination the challenges of these epic times we have been born into.  It offers storytellers and activists an ideal environment, nourishment and encouragement to work on developing their creative projects.

Storytellers have traditionally played an important part in the social fabric of their communities. They foster social cohesion by bringing people together through live encounters and are able to address a wide variety of social issues through metaphor and imagination. Contemporary storytellers can play a role in revitalizing community life, bring into focus social injustices, shift public attitudes and offer new ways of looking at things.

Creative Lab supports the professional development of storytellers, who want to develop a creative body of work, which engages in and addresses specific social/ environmental issues. It opens up a new environment, away from the restrictions and pressures of everyday life, providing the time and space for in which to develop work and creatively explore new ideas. Our experience shows us that storytellers, like many other emerging artists, need time for reflection, research, mentoring, guidance, presentation and production, which is what this programme aims to provide.

As a creative group, we will work closely with each participant to develop a storytelling project/performance coupled with socially engaging activities relevant to the area of social impact they are working with. We will offer if needed, tailored guidance in areas such as group facilitation, creation of social exercises and games, marketing and publicity strategy as well as coaching of performance skills to further develop the storyteller’s artistic excellence. Participants will get most out of their time with us if they come with a project that has established which materials they are working with and have a focused goal of what they want to achieve during those 3 weeks.

Places will be limited and open by application to eight storytellers who are working on a specific performance or storyteller related project. We will be offering creative input, collaborative heart and brainstorming sessions, mentoring, and coaching as well as guidance in developing a strategy for publicity and promotion of the work.