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June 2018
Storytelling Workshop
Diane will be leading Storytelling Workshops for the third grade students of the Marsh Grammar School in Methuen, MA! Retelling a folktale is part of the English core curriculum and with Diane’s follow-up workshop, students will gain all the tools they need for success. After the Folktale Superheroes Around the World performance in which Diane demonstrates the storytelling art, students receive a master class in how to tell a story. They also learn the power of their own imagination through…
Find out more »July 2018
Forbidden Stories Workshop @ National Storytelling Summit, Kansas City MO
Diane presents her workshop "Forbidden Stories" on Friday, July 27th at 8:30 pm as part of the National Storytelling Summit in Kansas City, MO. The theme of the conference is "Communities, Conflicts, and Transformational Stories," and Diane's workshop focuses on her work with the Kurdish people. Diane shares experiences from her decades long work gathering the folkloric and true stories of the Kurds of Turkey. This silenced and persecuted community risked their safety for this project. The workshop session alternates…
Find out more »September 2018
Tell Me A Story @ Newton After School Association Conference, Newton South High School
Learn how to tell a folktale in your words in this interactive workshop! Diane leads workshop participants in group exercises that will develop everyone’s expressive abilities. Explore your voice’s potential and learn how to create a character using Diane’s method of Voice and Body signatures. Skills learned from this workshop can be applied to storytelling and public speaking. There will also be an overview of storytelling games that can be played with groups and a chance to play them. Experience the…
Find out more »The Creative Voice Workshop @ Dancing Tree Story Workshop, Needham MA
Storyteller Diane Edgecomb’s unique vocal and physical training helps us to strengthen the connection between the imagination and the voice, increasing its flexibility, authenticity, expressiveness, range and resonance.
Find out more »October 2018
Transforming Voice Workshop @ Scottish International Storytelling Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Storyteller Diane Edgecomb’s unique vocal and physical training helps us to strengthen the connection between the imagination and the voice, increasing its flexibility, authenticity, expressiveness, range and resonance.
Find out more »November 2018
Workshops @ Newton After School Conference, Newton MA
Diane presents two interactive workshops for after school staff at this popular conference. Topics include: Tell Me a Story- on the art of telling a story and Storytelling and the Art of Play - motivating children to tell their own tales.
Find out more »Acting Workshop @ Smith College, Northampton, MA
Diane will have the pleasure of leading a workshop on voice, the body and performance with acting students from the Department of Theatre at Smith College.
Find out more »January 2019
Storytelling Residency @ Blackstone Innovation School, Boston, MA
This four week residency enhances third grade students' narrative abilities. An approved artist educator on the roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Diane knows that an immersion in storytelling develops within each person clear and concrete communication skills. Her residencies stress vocal range and flexibility, active listening skills, visualization, and the ability to frame intangible feelings into physical and vocal language. These residencies skillfully develop young students’ expressive and imaginative abilities within the narrative form.
Find out more »Storytelling Residency @ Blackstone Innovation School, Boston, MA
This four week residency enhances third grade students' narrative abilities. An approved artist educator on the roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Diane knows that an immersion in storytelling develops within each person clear and concrete communication skills. Her residencies stress vocal range and flexibility, active listening skills, visualization, and the ability to frame intangible feelings into physical and vocal language. These residencies skillfully develop young students’ expressive and imaginative abilities within the narrative form.
Find out more »February 2019
Storytelling Residency @ Blackstone Innovation School, Boston, MA
This four week residency enhances third grade students' narrative abilities. An approved artist educator on the roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Diane knows that an immersion in storytelling develops within each person clear and concrete communication skills. Her residencies stress vocal range and flexibility, active listening skills, visualization, and the ability to frame intangible feelings into physical and vocal language. These residencies skillfully develop young students’ expressive and imaginative abilities within the narrative form.
Find out more »Storytelling Residency @ Blackstone Innovation School, Boston, MA
This four week residency enhances third grade students' narrative abilities. An approved artist educator on the roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Diane knows that an immersion in storytelling develops within each person clear and concrete communication skills. Her residencies stress vocal range and flexibility, active listening skills, visualization, and the ability to frame intangible feelings into physical and vocal language. These residencies skillfully develop young students’ expressive and imaginative abilities within the narrative form.
Find out more »March 2019
“Art & Spirit” in Residency at First Church Boston, MA
Diane will be artist in residence for the week of March 16th-24th at First Church Boston as part of their acclaimed Art & Spirit series. At the Sunday service on March 17th she will be joined by Kurdish musician Andrew Mazlum Aytac on saz.
Find out more »Tell Me A Story Workshop @ First Church, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston
In this intergenerational storytelling workshop, we’ll play with the basics of storytelling: learning how to re-tell a classic folktale in our own words and exploring storytelling games that help us discover anecdotes from our own life to share.
Find out more »April 2019
The Storyteller’s Paintbox Workshop @ Silk Road House, Berkeley, CA
Would you like more expressive tools in your paintbox? Come explore a whole range of new ways to enhance your storytelling and spoken word art in this interactive workshop that tunes up all of our expressive tools.
Find out more »July 2019
Crafting an Eco-Narrative – a Workshop Intensive @ the National Storytelling Summit, Fremont CA
Diane brings her innovative workshop on nature and environmental storytelling to the National Storytelling Network conference and summit this July. The 2019 Summit is a great chance to see some fabulous performances, award-winning keynote speakers and participate in a variety of workshops over a four day period, conducted by the “cream-of-the-crop” of storyteller presenters. The best storytelling conference around! Don't miss it!! Registration is now open! Take a quick look at the schedule of events HERE! https://storynet.org/nsnevents/conference/general-conference-schedule
Find out more »Crafting an Eco-Narrative – a Workshop Intensive @ the National Storytelling Summit, Fremont CA
Diane brings her innovative workshop on nature and environmental storytelling to the National Storytelling Network conference and summit this July. The 2019 Summit is a great chance to see some fabulous performances, award-winning keynote speakers and participate in a variety of workshops over a four day period, conducted by the “cream-of-the-crop” of storyteller presenters. The best storytelling conference around! Don't miss it!! Registration is now open!
Find out more »Crafting an Eco-Narrative – a Workshop Intensive @ the National Storytelling Summit, Fremont CA
Diane brings her innovative workshop on nature and environmental storytelling to the National Storytelling Network conference and summit this July. The 2019 Summit is a great chance to see some fabulous performances, award-winning keynote speakers and participate in a variety of workshops over a four day period, conducted by the “cream-of-the-crop” of storyteller presenters. The best storytelling conference around! Don't miss it!!
Find out more »Crafting an Eco-Narrative – a Workshop Intensive @ the National Storytelling Summit, Fremont CA
Diane brings her innovative workshop on nature and environmental storytelling to the National Storytelling Network conference and summit this July. The 2019 Summit is a great chance to see some fabulous performances, award-winning keynote speakers and participate in a variety of workshops over a four day period, conducted by the “cream-of-the-crop” of storyteller presenters. The best storytelling conference around! Don't miss it!!
Find out more »January 2020
Creating Characters: Workshop @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley, CA
A Master class in Dialogue and Characterization! Spend an afternoon delving into characterization and dialogue in the best way possible- through playful exercises that open up the imagination and activate expressive tools.
Find out more »March 2020
The Golden Thread: 3-Part Workshop @ New Hampshire Theatre Project, Portsmouth, NH
Discover the true power inherent in folktales, fairy tales and myths while learning how to creatively adapt them for contemporary audiences in this three-part workshop. Each session opens by tuning up our expressive tools with precise explorations in Voice, Characterization, Narration and Movement so that the instrument we use to tell will be as humming as our interpretations.
Find out more »The Golden Thread: 3-Part Workshop @ New Hampshire Theatre Project, Portsmouth, NH
Discover the true power inherent in folktales, fairy tales and myths while learning how to creatively adapt them for contemporary audiences in this three-part workshop. Each session opens by tuning up our expressive tools with precise explorations in Voice, Characterization, Narration and Movement so that the instrument we use to tell will be as humming as our interpretations.
Find out more »The Golden Thread: 3-Part Workshop @ New Hampshire Theatre Project, Portsmouth, NH
Discover the true power inherent in folktales, fairy tales and myths while learning how to creatively adapt them for contemporary audiences in this three-part workshop. Each session opens by tuning up our expressive tools with precise explorations in Voice, Characterization, Narration and Movement so that the instrument we use to tell will be as humming as our interpretations.
Find out more »April 2020
Reading with Expression- an Online Interactive Workshop @ Zoom website platform!
Diane helps participants bring the power of the spoken word alive when reading favorite texts. Especially geared for teachers, librarians that lead story hour and parents who wish to establish a nighttime tradition of reading stories to their children, Diane helps everyone discover the flexibility and fun in their voice, in the process enlivening reading and learning for all who listen.
Find out more »November 2020
Storytelling Residency Via Zoom!
This four week school residency is all Virtual and 100% fun! Diane visits Kindergarten and First grade classrooms at Edgewood School in Bristol, Connecticut during the months of November and December to bring Language arts ALIVE with interactive storytelling and story-making ideas.
Find out more »December 2020
Storytelling Residency via Zoom
This four week school residency is all Virtual and 100% fun! Diane visits Kindergarten and First grade classrooms at Edgewood School in Bristol, Connecticut during the months of November and December to bring Language arts ALIVE with interactive storytelling and story-making ideas.
Find out more »June 2021
Storytelling Workshop for Boston Health Commission for staff of Child, Adolescent and Family Health services @ City of Boston
This one hour workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals
of storytelling. Using anecdotes, theory and participatory
exercises, Diane gives the group tools that will help them utilize the power of story in their lives and practices.
March 2022
“Wench Peach! A Medieval Manor Memoir” @ Sharing the Fire Virtual Storytelling Conference
Diane takes a full-frontal dive into her real-life adventures as a singing wench at Boston's notorious Medieval Manor dinner theater in this unusual coming of age story. While waiting tables for her big break, Diane hustles swill-filled pitchers of beer and serves up a plethora of innuendos, plopping them right beside the French bread, while singing her heart out for bikers and bachelorette parties in the belly basement of this Boston landmark. Lots of communal fun as we join in the faux Medieval sing-a-longs and experience the great leveling power of “free alcohol on tap!”
Find out more »April 2022
Join Diane @ the Connecticut Storytelling Festival and Conference
Join Diane at the Connecticut Storytelling Conference and Festival. The weekend of April 29th and 30th we'll be live in downtown New London with great shows, workshops and more! Diane will be performing A Thousand Doorways and "Demons that Never Sleep" a performance of folktales
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Diane’s storytelling has been featured several times on NPR’s “Living On Earth” Program!