STORYTELLING LAB: STORYTELLING BETWEEN US
with Martina Jánošíková and Zora Pauliniová (SK and SK)
with Martina Jánošíková and Zora Pauliniová (SK and SK)
Thinking of new ways to tell your stories? Would you like to use storytelling in the development of the community you care about?
We offer an open space for mapping important personal and/or broader themes that are worth working into stories. The whole lab will be very hands-on and interactive. We will introduce you to a variety of storytelling techniques, methods and approaches that you can use to prepare your stories for building relationships in the community, in working with the memory of place, in connecting generations or as an educational tool.
What will the Storytelling Lab bring to you?
-Skills that every storyteller needs: how to build the basic structure of a story, how to strengthen it, how to be in control of your gestures and voice, how to identify and exploit the expectations of our audience, how to maintain your spontaneity and your willingness to improvise.
-Autobiographical Storytelling: finding meaningful experiences from our lives and crafting them into inspiring stories.
Community storytelling: a chance to try out methods such as story map, community timeline, community map or collage of micro-stories, storyboards… The stories here will not just be a representation of history, but will show how to create a relationship with a place, how to capture important community figures, or how to name their values through storytelling.
Who is the Storytelling Lab open to?
We invite anyone aged 15 to 99 who enjoys meeting and connecting with other people and has no problem engaging in creative exercises in pairs and groups. The workshop may also be of interest to teachers, students, activists, people who are involved in facilitation, tutoring, presenting, artists, older people looking for a way to tell their life stories, members of various organizations, curious residents of Trenčín.
What times will the Storytelling Lab take place?
Friday, August 1, 2025, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 2.8. and 3.8. in the time from 14:00 – 17:00
Monday through Friday 8/4 – 8 .8 .2025 between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025 – Closing celebration from approximately 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Lab has three versions of registration – weekend, weekday or full nine-day version. The Lab will be structured so that participants benefit from each version and so that activities are not repeated.
Some activities will take place outdoors. We will inform you in advance if there are any changes.
Who are the teachers of the Storytelling Lab?
Zora Kalka Paulini has extensive experience as a facilitator of public meetings and planning processes involving the public. She is co-author of the book Public Spaces and has led several planning processes in Bratislava and other cities. She is also active in a number of initiatives and civic associations working for the development of public spaces, advocacy for cyclists’ and pedestrians’ rights, and intergenerational dialogue. She is a member of the intergenerational storytelling club Stanica Zagreb and the reading club under the auspices of OZ Zrejme.
Martina Jánošíková graduated from the College of Performing Arts, The Central School of Speech and Drama, Emerson College, but what she has gained most from storytellers from all over the world: Roia Gal_Or, Karmit Evenzur, Bári Voráčová, Justín Svoboda, Maji Bumberák, Umi Sinha, Philippa Kabali-Kagwa… and from the inspiring people she has met through storytelling. She is an active storyteller in Stories on the Trail, teaches storytelling courses “Vo vlastnej šťave”, lectures two storytelling groups – the intergenerational Stanica Zagreb and Storytelling in Silence at the Ticho Theatre and Co.
