Tell a Tiny Tale: Midwinter Workshop

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to craft a story and perform it in front of an audience, here’s your chance!

Over four workshops you will work with internationally trained storyteller, Alyssa Curtayne, responding to the themes of this year’s Melville Midwinter.

Important note: The workshops will run on Thursday evening for four weeks from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. The dates for these sessions are Thursday, 28 May, 4 June, 11 June, and 18 June, culminating in a Melville Midwinter performance on Saturday, 20 June 2026.

Booking into these sessions secures your spot in the 4 workshops below.

Week 1: Introduction to the art of oral storytelling and stories. Activities to reduce a story to its core message. Participants identify and select a story they want to work with.

Week 2: Getting into the story - setting, characterisation, spatial awareness

Week 3: Storytelling techniques and activities - voice, gesture, word choice, polarities.

Week 4: Practice and refinement, microphone rehearsal.

Saturday, June 20: Performance at Melville Midwinter

About your facilitator:

Alyssa Curtayne trained in storytelling at the School of Storytelling in England and loves empowering others to tell stories in their own way. She is the current Australian Fairy Tale Society president, a very experienced educator, and is the co-conspirator creating the Storyteller's Gathering, a Western Australian festival in celebration of the oral tradition. Alyssa is the host of The Heart of Storytelling podcast and interviews some of the world's best storytellers. She is a member of FEAST (Federation of Asian Storytellers), the Storytelling Guild of WA and has plans to travel internationally with her storytelling in late 2026.

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