Workshops

Órla Mc Govern: Chasing the Tale

Location: Sindikalna dvorana - Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana
Time: Thursday, November 11 from 3pm till 6pm

​The art forms of storytelling and improvisation have long danced together. We improvise all the time as storytellers and we use storytelling skills and structures in many impro formats. In this workshop we will explore the place where storytelling and improvisational theatre meet. We will look into structures like story theatre, story play, personal and character monologues and all the worlds that open in between. Storytelling and improvisation are wonderful dance partners. Let’s see where the dance takes us.
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Órla Mc Govern is an award-winning storyteller, improviser, instructor, performer and writer based in Galway, Ireland. Her plays have been produced globally and she has written two books of stories Dublin Folk Tales For Children and Wild Waves & Wishing Wells (The History Press). She is the founder and artistic director of The Spontaneous Theatre People, of Moth & Butterfly Storytelling Collective, a trustee of Galway collective Theatre 57, a member of Connemara Artist Group Interface Inagh and a member of the European impro network Ohana. She loves swimming in the sea in all seasons.

Workshop attendance subject to compliance with the VTR requirements.

Billy Kissa: Tiny, Huge Characters

Location: Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana
Time: ​Sunday, November 14 from 10.30am till 1.30pm

An interesting story is based on interesting characters. The more real, juicy, fleshy and alive they are, the more we enjoy them, the more imprinted they are in our memory, the more they touch our hearts. In this workshop we will explore different ways of creating characters that both the performers and the audience will adore and remember. We will leave one sided characters behind and focus on the tools for bringing multidimensional characters to life.

Billy Kissa is an actress won over by improvisational theatre.  She lives in Athens, but has been travelling around the world extensively since 2012, teaching, learning and performing. She is a part of the European network for improvisers The SIN, a member of the European collision for women in impro Project.Eve and a co-creator of the international ensemble 3 Deadly Sinners. Back in Greece she is a teacher at HoI, House of Improv.

​Event attendance subject to compliance with the VTR requirements. 

Kasia Chmara: Feel Me (closed workshop for ŠILA teachers)

Location: Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova street 18, Ljubljana
Time: Saturday, November 13 from 10.30am till 1.30pm

When we believe in emotions that appear and develop on stage, the audience also dives into them with pleasure. In this workshop we will focus on the emotional side of theatrical scenes, the relationships between the characters and the emergence and the development of genuine emotional situations. We will learn how to find the balance in the scene, the critique point or the climax of the scene and the new balance, which will make our scenes meaty, real, moving and emotionally full. 

Kasia Chmara studied at the International Film, Theatre and Tv School in Lodz.  She performs with numerous impro groups and is involved in many projects and network: wymyWammy (Bydgoszcz), Two Sisters, Impro Atak (Lodz), European impro network Ohana, international project 7 Women of Different Ages, Irish-Polish duo Which is Which, international ensemble The Allnighters. Chmara is the artistic director of Improdrom, the international impro festival in Bydgoszcz. Currently she is finishing her PhD on creating characters for scripts through improvisational techniques. She guestperformed and taught workshops in Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, India, Ireland, Slovenia, France, Estonia, Germany,Latvia, Greece and Sweden. Nowadays she is an actress at the Kameralny Theatre in Bydgoszcz.

​Event attendance subject to compliance with the VTR requirements. ​

Jacob Banigan: A Character Named Will​ (closed workshop for KUD Kiks)

Location: JSKD Kranj, Glavni trg 7, Kranj
Time: Saturday, November 13 from 11am till 3pm 

A classic theatrical impro scene consists of a location, a situation, a plot, events and ideas. But none of that matters until we meet the characters and care about what happens to them. One of the ways to create characters that the audience breathes with, hopes, fears and cheers for, is to mix the familiar with the extreme. That way we can get to our hero, we can get to Will!

Jacob Banigan is a Canadian improviser and actor living in Graz, Austria. He performs and co-creates various formats of improvisation, short-form, long-form, marathon performances by large ensembles or solo shows. He travels extensively throughout Europe and North America, where he performs and teaches. Jacob joined the Rapid Fire Theater in Edmonton, Canada in 1990, and served as Artistic Director of RFT from 1995 to 2004. He is an ensemble member of the Theater im Bahnhof in Graz, English Lovers in Vienna and Rocket Sugar Factory anywhere in the world. Character creation, world-building and challenging story structure are infinitely inspiring to him.

​Samo Oleami: Critical Writing On Improvisational Theater

The workshop is created in cooperation between the Naked Stage festival and Radio Študent.
 
The workshop is intended for young writers who have already published a text or two, as well as for established writers who would like to deepen their knowledge of this specific type of theatrical expression. The format of the workshop includes watching the performances, discussing about what we have seen and socializing before, during and after performances, where we also talk to the artists. Then the individual work with the mentor follows, working on each text through 3 drafts over one or two weeks. The final texts will be published on Radio Študent.