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Johan
Liedgren ( www.liedgren.com ) is
originally from Sweden, and has settled in Seattle, USA. He is an award-winning cinema director,
writer, and story consultant. He also
applies narrative thinking to his consulting work with companies involving
brands, design, media, and technology. --- Workshop
title: "What
Stories Want: The Structure and Nature of Stories" (A Specialised Storytelling Workshop for Adults,
Sun 11 Feb, 10am-12:30pm). Workshop
description: Using the
story of "The Garden of Eden" as an example, we would exlore the
elements that are required to make a story a story, to be worth telling and
being heard. Participants would
experience ways telling and listening to stories are both creative acts, acts
that can give purpose and meaning to life.
This would help participants to understand not just what all stories
share, but also what stories "want from us". And why no story can resist imagining
something different from what is now, helping us to look at the world not as
static, but as the beginning of another story -- a story that is both
surprising and an eternal source of hope. (Script-writing
for cinema is an application of storytelling that would be considered
throughout this Workshop.) --- Johan
Liedgren would also be Chennai Storytelling Festival 2018's Valedictory speaker,
at 4:30pm on Sun 11 Feb (before the final set of performances). --- A photo
of Johan Liedgren is here.
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