Tim has recently begun to conduct tutorials for people interested in exploring the pleasures and challenges of resurrecting folk storytelling as a living art.
This is primarily a practical course-- you will learn to tell a few folktales in a compelling manner. You can come with nothing, or, if you have a tale you're working on, we can help develop it into something that grabs and holds the auience, bringing it to life, and helping it once again work its ancient mind-meld magic.
We also pay some attention to the nature of the traditioanl tale, the history of its study as an academic discipline, and the revival of folk storytelling as a performing art.
Some of the work is individual, some group.
Tim Jennings has taught folk storytelling at all levels for over thirty years: in schools, teacher residencies, undergraduate and graduate schools, primarily in Vermont but all around New England. This tutorial business, though, is new.