Flatwater Tales digital storytelling festival scheduled June 5 |
The 2021 Digital Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival, featuring three earth renowned storytellers, has introduced the 2021 timetable for Saturday, June 5.
The pageant will provide an night efficiency recorded in entrance of a stay viewers, three live on the net interactive workshops, and a reside on the net following-social gathering. This yearly occasion is led by volunteers from the 3 Rotary Clubs in Oak Ridge. Because of to Covid-19 fears, this once-a-year party will be on the net in 2021.
Featured storytellers are 3 acclaimed performers: Andy Offutt Irwin, Bil Lepp, and Kim Weitkamp, identified to audiences nationwide for their wit, knowledge and abilities to make audiences giggle, cry and reminisce. These a few storytellers have attained national recognition and look regularly at festivals, together with the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough.
On Saturday, June 5, the Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival presents the art and magic of storytelling with a virtual overall performance at 8 p.m. The a few tellers will history a dwell show that will be done prior to a compact viewers solely for Flatwater Tales. This functionality consists of an unrehearsed improv section, hosted by emcee Paula Gordon Lepp, a new aspect in the storytelling world. Their tales are by now unpredictable, and the improv part will build on their creativeness and spontaneous tale-earning. A”blooper” roll and a are living right after-occasion will conclude the function.
Tickets are $15 for the night effectiveness. Workshops are $20 every single or all a few for $45. The after-party, a are living real-time occasion with the tellers and emcee, is $10 with some giveaways for the audience. A full working day ticket, which include all dwell interactive workshops, the evening general performance and the following-bash, is $50.
Upon registration, participants will acquire an email confirmation of their obtain. An e mail backlink to their occasions will arrive prior to the competition. In the occasion of registration trouble, email [email protected] or connect with 865-275-5270. Following June 5, ticket holders will obtain an electronic mail giving on the net entry to their classes for 2 months.
Tickets are now on sale on the Festival’s Eventbrite website page at: Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival tickets. For much more facts on Flatwater Tales go to their web page or e-mail [email protected]. Tickets are also offered at the Ferrell Shop, 232 Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. The function is becoming professionally generated by veteran virtual specialized artists, Six Feet Apart Productions.
“The Festival’s ambitions are to support carry our neighborhood jointly, introduce folks to storytelling and Oak Ridge, aid regional economic action, and celebrate and assistance the clubs’ group initiatives,” stated Emily Jernigan, Flatwater Tales chair and previous Breakfast Rotary president. “We keep on each individual calendar year to mature Flatwater Tales with a broader audience and have expanded our storytelling efforts to incorporate aiding small children come across their voices making use of this age-aged artwork variety.”
Who are these internationally acclaimed storytellers? They are:
Bil Lepp, an acclaimed teller from Charleston, West Virginia, and 5-time winner of the West Virginia Liars’ Contest, will take listeners on a winding, incredulous path before tying up all the unfastened finishes in a neat, fantastical offer. He tells humorous, imaginative tales, and states that while all the facts may not be exact, the thoughts are normally honest.
Bil’s dwell interactive workshop “Chaos Doesn’t Happen on Its Have?” will be at 11 a.m.
If you have read Bil’s tales you know that they twist and transform. If you haven’t read Bil, nicely, they nonetheless do. Component of what he does is introduce an strategy or strategy early in the story, and then distract the audience from pondering of it yet again right until it’s time for the big payoff at the close. Also, Bil strives for his stories to feel like he’s just coming up with them on the place for the reason that he thinks the greatest storytelling resembles a spontaneous discussion. How does he do it? How does he take care of all the unfastened finishes? The place do the ideas and loose finishes come from in the to start with place? Sign up for the workshop and obtain out!
Kim Weitkamp has mastered the craft of mixing humor and heartache, seriousness and silliness, all joined collectively by songs. She has a prolonged listing of achievements and is most recognized for the characters, comedy and songs she brings to her performances.
In her work as a humorist, storyteller, singer and songwriter, she has taken house an armload of awards and recognitions, like seven award-profitable audio collections. Kim suggests, “It’s all about the folks. I adore folks. Men and women are a going for walks, talking story. I am no unique I just get to share mine from phase.” Kim has also introduced workshops around the place and on the web, such as at colleges, conferences and corporations, and now at Flatwater Tales.
Kim’s stay interactive workshop “Tongue and Pen” will be at 1:30 p.m. “Tongue and Pen” is the excellent stepping stone no make a difference wherever you are on your resourceful journey. Your time with Kim will be component dialogue, component lecture and component pen. Regardless of whether you are producing for on-stage functionality or composing for the written web site, you will master to expand your contemplating on how to tactic having your artistic views into some thing tangible. The most difficult section of producing is doing it. You are going to master how to tweak the muse, carve out time and area, and prevent building excuses. Study some refreshing new ways to structure your tale so that you can see it from distinct perspectives, supplying you a further very well from which to draw from as you write and edit. This workshop is not exclusively for spoken phrase performers and authors. It also benefits anybody engaged with the imaginative course of action.
Andy Offut Irwin’s silly putty voice, hilarious heart-crammed tales, and remarkable mouth noises (arguably, the biggest whistler in the world) make him a 1-particular person-showman. Andy is equal pieces mischievous schoolboy and the Marx Brothers, peppered with a contact of the Southern balladeer. One particular of the most sought right after accomplishing storytellers in the United States, Andy is primarily identified for relating the adventures of his 85-calendar year-outdated-widowed-newly-minted-doctor-aunt, Marguerite Van Camp, a girl who avoids curmudgeonship by trying to keep her finger on the pulse of the shifting world about her as she seeks to expand — even at her state-of-the-art age — in the New South.
Together with remaining a vagabond storyteller, Andy will work as an arts educator, keynote speaker, theatre director, songwriter, comedian, newspaper columnist, camp counselor, and Shakespearian actor.
Andy’s live interactive workshop, “Laughing Tends to make You Smarter” will be at 3 p.m. It includes humor, wit, and storytelling to help you build cognitive connections top to deep and enduring understanding, and possibly even to major organization. The workshop will assistance you learn that there is a relationship concerning emotion and the means to keep in mind and find out. What’s your earliest memory? There is an psychological relationship to it, is not there? Now, c’mon, admit it. We’ll take a look at why wit is critical, even in severe stories.
Tickets are now on sale on the Festival’s Eventbrite web site at Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival tickets and at the Ferrell Shop in Oak Ridge. For far more information and facts on Flatwater Tales go to their web site or e-mail [email protected].
