23 Jun 2012
10:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Location: Pearse Street Library

Storytellers of Ireland Upcoming Workshop – Once Upon a Time is Now - Facilitated by Milbre Burch

Pearse Street Library

Saturday 23rd June, 10.30am – 4.00pm – There will be a break for lunch (not provided) at an appropriate time

Cost: €25, SOI members €20

Milbre Burch is a very experienced storyteller and workshop facilitator who has appeared at the National Storytelling Festival seven times since 1984 and received a “Storytelling Oscar”, the Circle of Excellence Award, from the National Storytelling Network in 1999. She has been featured at storytelling, spoken word and theatre festivals in 36 US states and in twelve European cities. She has been an artist-in-residence since 1978, working for local and state councils in Utah, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Rhode Island, California, Kansas and Missouri. She has taught mainstream students of all ages as well as gifted, ESL, hearing impaired and developmentally disabled children; at-risk teens; well elders; mentally challenged adults; minimum and maximum security prison inmates; college students; conference attendees; fellow tellers; family business owners; therapists; ministers, rabbis and lay-people and countless teachers. She has taught or toured with the Lincoln Center in New York and the Music Center on Tour, the Performing Tree and the University of Phoenix in California, and was a teaching artist for the National Conversations Project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

To book email: philip@positiveoutcomes.ie