Tales from Another Century
A Story Telling/Writing Workshop for
People over 60
Young
people today have no clue of life before blackberries, HDTV, or a quick car trip to feast on fast food. Party Line?
What's that, a dance for singles? Ice man? Pre-Neanderthal grunt? The past has led to the future and who
knows better than those over the half-century mark! We gray-haired folks have stories to tell that reflect the path
through the 20th to this 21st century.
Tales from Another Century
is designed to be a fun and celebratory experience. This workshop encourages participants to search their lives for
significant (and, perhaps, not so significant) moments that have contributed to their accrued wisdom about life. For
eons, stories have been the means of passing on wisdom from one generation to another. Each and every one of us has
a story to tell; to hand down to those who follow and to share with those who have traipsed the same calendar pages.
Tales from Another Century
is not so much about technique as it is about the stories themselves. However, hints will be offered about subjects,
predicates, pronouns, weighted verbs, and other such intricacies of composition. Computer skills are not necessary;
pencils and paper still work. This workshop is designed for four two-hour sessions, but Sessions II and III can be combined.
There will be homework.
As workshop leader, Micki Smith,
has experience as an oral and written story teller that spans many a decade. Yes, she even sat on a stair step awaiting
that ice man in hopes of getting a chip from the 50 lb. chunk slung in a wide, leather strap across his back. Her favorite
non-family stories involve history, theology, knitting (of course!), and anything fiber related. Fees start at $100
a session and are negotiable to non-profit organizations.