Max Tell / Schools / Workshops
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WorkshopsStorytelling & Communication Skills All workshops can be adjusted to suit the special needs of your class. They are also created with the Key Concepts as outlined in the Prescribed Learning Outcomes of the Boards of Education for British Columbia and the Yukon. STORYTELLING & COMMUNICATION SKILLS Teachers Take the Stage: Energize the Learning Process through the use of Storytelling Technique. Teachers are on stage 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 hours per day. At times, they face fatigue, week voices, or lack of concentration. This workshop focuses on performance techniques used by professionals to pump up energy, support the voice, and to help focus on the moment. These same techniques are essential for helping teachers to make their experience in the classroom, and that of their students, more alive, vibrant and educationally stimulating. Book Teachers Take the Stage Act the Story: The Power of Speech focuses on the performance techniques of storytelling, and how the Body Unit, the Breathing Unit, and the Vocal Unit work together to make communicative language come alive. Upper Primary to grade 12. Book Act the Story Making Stories Come Alive, Part 1: focuses on the broader aspects of storytelling: story choice, where to find stories, memorization v/s a more ad lib style, as well as performance techniques and other valuable storytelling tips. Upper Primary to grade 12. Making Stories Come Alive, Part 2: Have an active, hands-on experience. Bring along a story you wish to tell, learn a few basic hands-on techniques, tell your story, and be coached by a professional. Upper Primary to grade 12. Making Stories Come Alive, Part 3: The body is the key tool in the craft of storytelling. It is divided into three units: the BODY UNIT, the BREATHING UNIT, and the VOCAL UNIT. Participants are given the tools (exercises) to help make each story vibrant. Upper Primary to grade 12. Book Making Stories Come Alive The Creative Writers’ Tool Kit: Good Writing Starts with the Senses, not only creative writing, but academic writing as well. Writing is an active process in which the writer, from start to finish, interacts with his or her own writing, so that the finished product is a clear and vivid expression of a well developed point of view. Also available as an Artist-In-Residence Program. Upper Primary to grade 12. Book Creative Writers' Tool Kit Fun with Fractured Fairytales: Write and perform your own Fractured Fairytale. What is a fairy tale? What is character? What is plot? What is setting? How do you put them all together, then jumble them up and write your own fractured fairytale? And how can you win an Oscar by performing your own fractured fairytale with pizzazz? That’s what this workshop is all about. Also available as an Artist-In-Residence Program. Upper Primary to grade 12. Book Fun with fractured Fairytales Poetry through the Hoop of Fire: Discover the gut meaning of a poem, before the technique. Do people play a sport because they love the rules? No, they learn the rules, because they love the game. This is the best path for the learning of poetry as well: if a student loves a poem he or she will find it much easier to learn what makes it tick. Intermediates to grade 12. Book Poetry Studies Crash Course in Song Writing: Have you ever written a song? Would you like to? Here’s your chance. Max Tell, singer and songwriter, will help you to find the tune, the rhythm, the rhyme, and the words to your own song. You’ll write it. You’ll sing it. You’ll wow your friends. Intermediates to grade 12. Book Crash Course in Song Writing Socials through the Art of Storytelling: Facts are not enough, story is the key. Learn how to take bare facts, turn those facts into a compelling story, then tell your story, coached by a professional. Intermediates to grade 12. Book Socials through the Art of Storytelling I Know I Can: By comparing any popular sport (the known) to any occupation (the unknown), this inspiring workshop empowers reluctant learners. It teaches them that by applying what they know to the unknown, they can discover the answers to many questions, answers that lead to change and to a far more productive and rewarding path. Intermediates to grade 12. Book I know I Can
Presentations: * Reading from a work or works in progress Audiences: Grades K-12; Classrooms; School Libraries; Public Libraries Available Times: Weekdays 12:00-1:30 Recording of Skype Sessions are encouraged as long as a copy is supplied to the author. No Charge Meet the Author Visit: 10-15 minute session In-Depth Visit Length: 0ne hour In-Depth Visit Cost: $200 Prerequisites: n/a Contact Information: robert@maxtell.ca Affiliations: * Vancouver Society of Storytellers Qualifications: * Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1972
All workshops can be adjusted to suit the special needs of your class. To book Max, email him at robert@maxtell.ca
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