Christmas Tales & StoryMaking Workshop, with Giles Abbott

Grown ups! Pass a secret door, enjoy Seasonal tales & then discover the magical storyteller in you! A fun, collaborative, joyful workshop!

Love Shack is a magical place! A cosy, sparkling wolrd where Giles Abbott will delight you with Christmas stories then lead guests to create, together, beautiful stories.

You will learn a simple, easy-to-remember Story Structure derived from analysis of traditional stories. This structure will guide your imagination as you, collaboratively, create an entirely new story with all the details chosen by participants. Devising will take less than 8 minutes. Then you will start exploring Details (what is too little/too much?) and how you can use different types of Language to enrich your storytelling. The workshop finishes when each group has co-narrated their new-born story and you leave with a Structure you can re-use again and again with different results, with a new story you can retell all by…