The Universal in the Particular: Crafting Personal Narratives to Create Emotional Catharsis in the Audience

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday November 14, 2019 - Friday November 15, 2019
      8:30 am - 9:59 am
  • Location: Bill Moore Student Success Center – President’s Suite D
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  • Fee(s):
    N/A
  • Extras:
    Free food
Contact

If you have any questions, please contact Christen Smiley at christen.smiley@gatech.edu

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Telling deeply personal and honest stories can be therapeutic and cathartic for the storyteller; however, creating emotional experiences for audiences to connect is a whole other art form.

Full Summary: Telling deeply personal and honest stories can be therapeutic and cathartic for the storyteller; however, creating emotional experiences for audiences to connect is a whole other art form. Join New York Times memoirist, four-time Moth StorySlam champion, and National Storytelling Network Grand Slam Champion Jamie Brickhouse as he reveals the craft of unlocking and performing moving stories with messages of universal healing and transformation.

Telling deeply personal and honest stories can be therapeutic and cathartic for the storyteller; however, creating emotional experiences for audiences to connect is a whole other art form. Join New York Times memoirist, four-time Moth StorySlam champion, and National Storytelling Network Grand Slam Champion Jamie Brickhouse as he reveals the craft of unlocking and performing moving stories with messages of universal healing and transformation.

Georgia Tech's Transformative Narratives initiative is designed to enhance self-awareness, increase cultural competence, and connect us through the sharing of diverse identities, experiences, and perspectives. Events are free and open to faculty, staff, students, and invited guests from the greater Atlanta community.

To register, please visit: https://sdie.gatech.edu/universal-particular-crafting-personal-narratives-create-emotional-catharsis-audience.

For a full list of this year's Storytelling Crawl events, please visit: https://sdie.gatech.edu/transformative-narratives-storytelling-crawl.

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (IDEI), Staff Diversity, Georgia Tech Arts

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Postdoc, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Arts and Performance
Keywords
Transformative Narratives Storytelling Crawl 2019
Status
  • Created By: tjohnson372
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Oct 16, 2019 - 10:21am
  • Last Updated: Nov 6, 2019 - 2:52pm