Storytelling Residencies
Personalize a residency or workshop to meet the needs of your classroom or community. Interactive storytelling and improvised story-building exercises create connection, joy and improved learning abilities. Aligned with several state and national standards as well as SEL (Social Emotional Learning) skills, each residency centers story as a vehicle for questioning and transformation of ourselves, and ultimately our communities.
In the classroom, we aim to help fuse the education gap by giving educators powerful critical literacy tools to improve engagement and comprehension. Many schools, especially our core focus of Title I PreK-6, are also dealing with trauma stemming from racial inequality, poverty, mental health and community conflict. From PreK-high school, we address this head on utilizing trauma-informed practices to ensure dialogue is entered with sensitivity, love and understanding.
Each residency specifically addresses a current event, theme, inequity, missing/ silenced history mental health, or community challenge through story. This opens up a positive space for critical dialogue about the world around us. Choose from our anthology of existing stories, or have us adapt or write one for you.
Our 15-week residency comprised of 90-minute sessions each week culminates in a group sharing or full performance by participants. However, you can tailor both the length and topic of a residency to best fit your needs. Residencies are facilitated by one of our highly-trained Teaching Artists who has a minimum of ten years experience (with the exception of our BIPOC fellows who work alongside us for extensive training).
by Stella Healey
by Lilly Pierce
by Madeline Miigwan Johnson
by Lilly Pierce