Jules Corriere is a playwright, screenwriter, and radio show writer specializing in Community Performance, a genre utilizing a community’s oral stories in performance as a way to promote greater understanding and develop relationships between people from diverse backgrounds. Over forty of her plays have been produced in the United States, England, Scotland, and Brazil. She writes a story-based radio show and podcast at the International Storytelling Center, which is broadcast on local NPR. She is an ALM Candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard. Her short screenplay, “Standing in Line,” recently placed in five international film festivals.
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Everyone has a story. I work with participants in a fun and engaging experience that uses a “storytelling game” which immediately connects participants with each other. We begin by asking a central question and then, in pairs, each person shares a very short (2 minute) story, experience, or memory in response to the question. The partners retell the story back to the storyteller, utilizing active listening. Sharing of these stories continues as they move into groups of four. At this point, the groups choose a story to “put on it’s feet” and act out. Groups perform their stories for each other, and the process is repeated at different sessions until a collection of stories is developed for performance. The group rehearses scenes weekly, and the process culminates on a public performance that features the true life stories of the participants.
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In this fun and active workshop, participants work together using their own stories and imaginations to develop improv pieces. Each week, participants have fun engaging with each other as they play out and perform scenes from their own lives, working on timing and delivery with teaching artist Jules Corriere. At the end of this eight-week course, participants will choose their favorite improv pieces to be presented in an afternoon performance for other members of the senior center to enjoy.
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You have a story worth sharing! In this fun and engaging workshop, participants will meet weekly to share stories, listen to and identify their own hidden gems, and then work with teaching artist Jules Corriere to craft their memories into an unforgettable story to share with others. At the end of this eight-week session, participants will hold an afternoon Storytelling Concert, performing their work with the members of the Senior Center and staff.
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In this eight-week session, teaching artist Jules Corriere will facilitate a series of storytelling circles for the first several sessions, and then work with participants to identify specific stories to edit for inclusions in the creation of a recording or podcast that is reminiscent of old-time radio shows. This recording of their own voices and stories can be shared on the Senior Center website, or even added to a podcast site.
*For an example of a previous Creative Aging project podcast done with Jules Corriere, listen to Story Time with Wilson Rides at: https://story-time-with-wilson-rides.simplecast.com/
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In this highly engaging 10-week session, teaching artist Jules Corriere will facilitate an exciting process in which participants begin by playing a storytelling game. This game develops scenes in a fun and improvisational manner among participants. These scenes are then developed weekly by building on memory and characterization, and by adding costumes and incorporating small props and set pieces. Using her tried-and-true method, utilized in communities and senior centers for over 20 years, Corriere will lead seniors in the creation of their own one-act play, based on their own stories, and performed by them. This play will be presented in an afternoon performance at the Senior Center for members and staff.
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