“Everyone has a story” image credit: unsplash.com/@maeganmartin

Everyone has stories to tell, and storytelling is a skill that can be developed and used purposefully. Storytelling can contribute to inclusion and connection, build confidence, bring about change and inform our next creative work.

This customized 3-hour workshop, free to members or with your new RAA membership, will include interactive ways to craft personal narratives through writing exercises, approaches to creative thinking, and working the elements of engaging storytelling. Participants will be encouraged to express their own lived experiences through a wide range of narrative forms, from poetry and prose to musical inspiration and/or visual arts.

About our workshop leader

Image courtesy Kara Kemp

Recently named Murfreesboro’s 2023 Performing Arts Laureate, Kara Kemp is a champion of people and their stories. She is creator and co-producer of the Bloom Stage, a quarterly multi-genre art series, and the national award-winning storytelling event, United We Style. Learn more about Kara in this article about the new laureates.

About the venue and parking

Cultivate Coworking is located at 107 W. Lytle St. and has plenty of street parking available on Lytle and College. On Saturdays, no time limits are enforced. If need be, you could also try the Rutherford County Judicial Center Parking Garage one block west, at the corner of Lytle and Maple.

To register

You must email Ginny Togrye at gtogrye@bellsouth.net to reserve your spot. The workshop is free to current RAA members or $25 for nonmembers, which includes your RAA membership for a year! If you want to go ahead and join or renew your membership, you can do that here on our site.

What to bring

Paper and pens!

Photo courtesy Kara Kemp/United We Style