“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.”
― Jean-Luc Godard
The Mosquito Story Workshop helps you build the unique skill-set for crafting and telling a compelling 5-7 minute, personal story for live performance. Through sensory exploration, writing exercises and audio recording, you will identify the core of your story, form a solid outline and develop your story structure. Each day will consist of feedback from the instructor and other participants, story-iteration, and substantial one-to-one story coaching until your story ready to go!
What’s your story?
Your stories matter. The power of telling our stories is immense. Storytelling creates community and offers catharsis. It bridges the individual with the universal, and reveals our shared humanity. In an increasingly digital world, where it often feels we are connecting over screens more than in person, it’s no surprise that live storytelling events like The Moth and The Mosquito regularly present to sold-out audiences, and draw podcast listeners globally. We are longing for authentic experiences with one another, and ourselves.
The Mosquito Story Workshop helps you build the unique skill-set for crafting and telling a compelling 5-7 minute, personal story for live performance. Through sensory exploration, writing exercises and audio recording, you will identify the core of your story, form a solid outline and develop your story structure. Each day will consist of feedback from the instructor and other participants, story-iteration, and substantial one-to-one story coaching until your story ready to go!
Whether you are an aspiring story slam participant, experienced stage performer, preparing for the TED stage, or shaping your brand’s story – this workshop is for you. Come create the story you want to tell in a supportive, productive environment. All participants will have the opportunity to tell on The Mosquito stage, and your story will be recorded for you to keep.
Please bring: writing materials, an object or photo of personal meaning, and your smartphone or other audio recorder.
Vanessa Vartabedian is Creator and Producer of the Mosquito Story Slam and podcast, now in its 7th season. Having presented hundreds of stories to thousands of audience members, she knows the intimate truth of what makes a compelling story and how to tell it. She currently coaches storytellers, actors and directors, both privately and at Lesley University and Emerson College where she teaches Filmmaking and Television Production. Vanessa has shares her own stories regularly at The Moth in Los Angeles and Boston, as well as on The Mosquito stage. She has a degree in Acting from NYU, and is a documentary and narrative filmmaker.