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STORYTELLING WORKSHOP with Judith Heinemann at EMBARK!

Led by Master Storyteller JUDITH HEINEMAN, this 6 hour intensive workshop teaches its participants about different approaches to storytelling. It also takes you through a journey of discovery of self with the support of performance technique. Create an engaging personal narrative and/or world folk tale in a highly participatory, fun and supportive environment. Participants are encouraged to do the Slam for Free!

WORKSHOP: 2 Thursdays/6 hours: January 21 & 28 from 7-10 PM: $100
REGISTER by January 18!
Location: EMBARK @ The Flatz; Third Floor
Workshop must run with at least 7 students.
To register and Information: juhestories@aol.com and
www.embarkstoryworkshop.bpt.me
Note: No Refunds within 24 hours of the starting date of the workshop.
Minimum Age: 18 years old

JUDITH HEINEMAN
Judith, a professional storyteller, actress, producer, Chicago Moth winner (May 2010), and Moth GrandSLAM participant, performs nationally, and internationally, bringing her engaging and interactive style of world tales and personal narrative to diverse communities of all ages. In August, 2013, she was awarded the Oracle Award for Leadership and Service in the North Central Region from the National Storytelling Network. In September 2012, she and musician partner Dan Marcotte were invited to the "After Grimm" conference at Kingston University in Sussex, England to perform an excerpt of their Grimm's Grimmest: the Darker Side of Fairy Tales show. She continued on to Dublin, where she was invited to be the "Exotic Teller" at the Yarnspinner's Club. Her "Grimm's Grimmest" CD: with musician Dan Marcotte, won a Parents' Choice Gold Award, a Storytelling World Honors and a NAPPA (National Parenting) Honors Award. That live show is among the most requested of the Illinois Humanities Council where she is a "Road" Scholar. Judith received Chicago's SAGE award for "Promoting better intercultural understanding through Storytelling," 2009. After bringing Tellabration! A worldwide Storytelling celebration, to Chicago for the first time in 1997, she co-founded the Chicago Storytelling Guild. Both are still running. She is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, 1993; Producer and founder of Mohegan Colony's Storytelling and Music Festival, Westchester, New York 2001- present. Member of SAG-Aftra and Actors' Equity.