"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the
thing we need most in the world.” - Philip Pullman
This month STORY FOR FOOD launches the «Stories & Ice Cream», a weekly series of free workshops on oral storytelling at the beautiful ice cream shop “Cuore di Vetro”
We wish to form a regular group who shares oral stories and to explore basic elements of story-dramaturgy: beginning-middle-end, anticipation, change, tension, conflict, transformation, sympathy, contradictions, character inner motivations, line of emotions and relations, rhythm and timing.
We are our stories, the stories we are told and the stories we tell ourselves. It is important that we are able to structure stories out of our own experiences and communicate them in an authentic and powerful way. Oral storytelling is about the experience of sharing and connection between the teller and the listener, and this experience is enriched by the capacity to communicate constructive and compelling narratives.
The workshops are open to everyone in a drop-in basis. We hope to help participants acknowledge the importance of their stories, train their storytelling skills, explore personal and fictitious realities, and form stories out of their memories and imagination.
STORY FOR FOOD (SFF) is a social art project that audio collects undocumented stories, stories that otherwise would be lost. In the end of the workshop, everyone is welcome to record a story at the SFF Audio Archive.
The workshop is held by the playwright Christina Kyriazidi