• Comedy Workshop - performance and healing laughter
  • Truth and pain
  • Light and shade
  • Cultural traps and humour
  • It's all in the timing
  • Rejuvenating semantics

   

• Managing that book on the wordprocessor - an author's survival package equipping you with:
• basic and easily used techniques for creating and maintaining that large document
• how to manage graphics, tables and other beasts
• headings, chapters and page numbers
• generating tables of contents and indexes
• footnotes, cross references and end notes ... if you must have them
• protecting your book - basic security
• taming the printer

 

• Telling Tales - a storytelling workshop giving guidance on:
  • how to identify good stories
  • retelling old chestnuts with a fresh veneer
  • reexamining the evidence with fresh witnesses
  • performance techniques
  • arranging and hosting an epic telling
  • the DNA of humour - truth and pain
  • reading your audience.

   

• Researching and Performing Historical Characters - how to get into the life of a character you want to portray
  • What do audiences want to learn?
  • Separating fact and narrative
  • Distinguishing between dark and shade
  • Giving a guru flesh and blood
  • Why clay feet are better than gold
  • Discarding the script and living the life!
  • Performance traps

   

• Seal it with a kiss! - letter writing was (and in many cases still is) a core honing skill for successful authors. In this workshop we:
  • study a selection of authors' letters
  • develop a personal letter creation matrix
  • how to use letters as writing incubators
  • write and share letters
  • explore and resurrect the aesthetics of letter technology (papers, sealing wax, embossing ...)
  • create a permissive world of self and peer encouragement.
  • preserving letters.

Enquire about hosting a workshop:

kenbenn@paradise.net.nz