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The Company We Keep: Character Development in Stories

All stories have characters: human, animal, even celestial. The care with which we treat these story- citizens influences the depth of our telling. We will explore methods for developing and animating these story characters by using personal experience and imagination to encourage them to speak. And we will listen to what they have to say.

Taught by MaryGay Ducey, master storyteller.
MaryGay Ducey travels the country teaching and telling stories through performances and workshops, then returns home to the children who know her best as their librarian. MaryGay grew up in New Orleans and moved to Berkeley in 1967. The Bay Area's shifting social landscape and New Orleans sense of play have created an artist who relishes diversity and honors the importance of stories in family life.
Her performances of contemporary and traditional tales have been described as full of wit, but aimed directly at the heart. Named one of Berkeley's Distinguished Women, MaryGay has told stories from the Smithsonian Institution to San Quentin and has appeared at the National Storytelling Festival and on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.