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Everyone has stories! Explore ways to listen, gather, speak, laugh, learn, and effectively tell your stories, with less anxiety and more joy.
In this workshop, we'll use guided creative and narrative play and prompts to hone our unique and natural communication skills and develop at least one completed narrative along with a store of personal ideas. Time permitting, we'll share the gift of our stories within a supportive story-loving community. From ideas participants will remember, imagine, and create.
Instructor bio: Lyn Ford is an internationally respected, fourth-generation Affrilachian storyteller, writer, and workshop presenter. Lyn's folktale adaptations and original stories are rooted in her family’s multicultural Black Appalachian (or Affrilachian) heritage. Lyn's work has taken her to major storytelling festivals and literacy and storytelling conferences across the country, as well as in Australia and Ireland, and, via the Zoomiverse, in Germany and for the Federation of Asian Storytellers story swaps. Lyn is an Ohio teaching artist on the Ohio Arts Council Teaching Artists rosters, with more than thirty years of experience sharing creative narrative with all ages and several award-winning publications. Lyn is a two-time recipient of the National Storytelling Network's ORACLE Circle of Excellence Award, and a 2023 recipient of the National Association of Black Storytellers' Black Appalachian Storytelling Fellowship and NABS' prestigious Zora Neale Hurston Award. Lyn is a member of the Writers Council of the National Writing Project and the National Association of Black Storytellers’ Brother Blue Circle of Elders.
We provide access to the UAPL’s entire collection, as well as Internet and Wi-Fi. We also offer exciting youth and adult programs, book discussions, a large meeting room, and a Youth Department. Learn more about our services.
