Presents a half day workshop

The Story Project, with Audra Lord

Drama is storytelling, and storytelling is communication. This is the premise of The Story Project, a hands-on workshop that will prepare you to devise theatre in the ESOL classroom. During this half-day workshop, participants will use storytelling, writing, movement, theatre games and improvisation to create a short dramatic piece based on their own lives. First-hand experience with the techniques of collaborative theatre will offer tools to help boost student confidence and turn the ESOL classroom into an interactive and skills-integrated learning community.
Date: Saturday 21 August 2013 Time: 9am 12pm (registrations open 8:30am wake up coffee/tea and morning tea will be available) Venue: Iona College, Havelock North TESOLANZ and BAYTESOL members free Non-members $15 waged, $10 unwaged Register by email jpattison@eit.ac.nz or by pm on our Facebook page
AUDRA LORD is a playwright, teacher and actor from the USA, currently residing in New Zealand. Her original work has been staged at theatres across America; recent productions include Woyzeck (The New Theatre Project), Apples and Oranges (BoxFest Detroit 2012), The Little Things and Homeland Security (Planet Ant) and I Know What You Did Last Midsummer (Water Works Theatre Company). Her critically acclaimed play Fugue garnered national attention from The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons,and New Dramatists,where it was a semi-finalist for The Princess Grace Award in playwriting. When not writing, Audra teaches ESOL and offers a collaborative theatre workshop for non-native speakers of English. Audra is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, The Playwrights Center and Playmarket New Zealand.