Storytelling Academy
Location: Minerva's Spindle Instructor:Gabrielle d'Auvergne Description: Students will participate in a cumulative 9-day class which encompasses the basics of becoming a storyteller.
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Location: Minerva's Spindle Instructor:Gabrielle d'Auvergne Description: Students will participate in a cumulative 9-day class which encompasses the basics of becoming a storyteller.
Location: A&S Tent 5 Instructor:Justinian Clarus Description: Learn about verse and the difference between free verse, rhyming verse, and alliterative verse.
A&S Tent 9 Instructor:Lærifaðir Grim the Skald Description: Learn about Viking-era poetry. Includes forms, metrics, and alliteration and how to write in Norse verse. We'll talk about the ways poetry was used.
Location: A&S Tent 1 Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: Medieval poets, songwriters, and composers who weren't (or at least, may not have been) cisgender men (a brief-ish sampling!).
Location: PARC Instructor:Honorable Lady Elizabeth de Spaldyng Description: Learn to play soprano or tenor recorder and, as needed, basics of music reading. Bring a recorder and music stand.
Location: Northshield Royal - E02 Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: Demonstration of period examples, then discussion about how to reduce your chosen subject into to a concise, entertaining piece. Then we will write!
Location: Minerva's Spindle Instructor:Gabrielle d'Auvergne Description: Students will participate in a cumulative 9-day class which encompasses the basics of becoming a storyteller.
Location: A&S Tent 1 Instructor:Magistra Fiana of Clare Description: Learn why the poetry of English elegies and epics is superior for composition in our common tongue, and learn its elements and techniques.
Location: A&S Tent 9 Instructor:Master Cariadoc Description: How to tell stories in a way that creates the illusion of a period story being told to a period audience, along with a discussion of sources.
Location: A&S Tent 9 Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: Discussion of the works of women poet-composers, or *trouvères*, in northern France in the 12th-13th centuries, with ideas for performance/rewriting.