Stoughton Storytellers Storytelling Workshop

Crafting Your Own Story: Jen Rubin

Learn how to find, shape, and tell stories. You can bring existing stories to shape or find new stories from your life. We will discuss the five main elements of a story and how to discover them. By learning dynamic storytelling elements, you will gain the tools to pull short stories out of everyday life. Participants will learn how to turn an anecdote of something that happened to you into a story that illuminates a central truth about your life. We will also teach techniques to communicate your story in an engaging manner. This will be an interactive class with a mixture of mini-lecture, 1:1 dialogue, small group work, and story presentations.

Jen Rubin leads storytelling workshops around the state and is a producer of Humanity Unlocked, a podcast about the power of the humanities in Wisconsin prisons. She produced the Moth StorySlam in Madison from 2016 through 2024. She wrote the book, We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood. Jen believes that stories are an important way we connect as humans. Turning a memory into a well-told story can affirm a truth that the listener already knew, it can deepen someone’s understanding, it can lower fences and it can amplify voices. You can find Jen on the Great Midwest Bagel Quest.

The event will be in person on Saturday, May 30th, 12pm to 4pm. There is no cost to attend; however, space is limited.

To register for this workshop, or for any further information, please email [email protected].