Description
Content
This workshop is open to all who wish to explore their personal journey. There are no required prerequisites to attend.
River Stories builds bridges between voice, text, character work, and your lived experience. Writers and actors in particular have found the processes experienced in this workshop of great value in opening up the sources of creativity. The River Stories workshop is a wonderful environment to share from diverse backgrounds, genders, and cultures to provide an enriching experience for all who take part.
Connecting voice with imagination and memory we begin by mining a valuable source of creativity, the back story of our own lives, in on-your-feet embodied visualizations of a river of life.
The imaginative journey reveals significant events and turning points in each personal story. We then apply the process to the river of life of a character we want to play or write.
The river story is physicalized and vocalized. The process opens up a fresh approach to personalized and transformational character work for actors and leads writers into an expanded landscape for their creative process.
Teachers
Mary Mayo – Mary teaches voice, acting, and dialects at the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts. She is a Designated Linklater Teacher with many years of experience coaching accents and dialects, acting, and teaching voice, acting, and improvisation in universities and professional theatre training programs around the country including Shakespeare & Company, University of Maryland, and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. See Mary’s full profile.
Kimberly White – Kimberly was Designated to teach the Linklater Voice Method in 1993. She has taught voice and coached in professional theaters including Seattle Shakespeare Company, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Co., and internationally in South Korea, the Czech Republic, Mexico, and Canada. Through her business, Dynamic Voice, Kimberly has focused on work with activists and advocates, specializing in voice, persuasive speaking, witness preparation, themes, and case stories. She is adjunct faculty at Seattle University School of Law. See Kimberly’s full profile.
What Do You Need To Bring/Prepare?
For all participants: A poem, piece of text or speech, that has particular personal meaning to you and which you are able to memorise by heart.
Actor participants are asked to bring a memorized speech from a play spoken by a character who interests them deeply. Writers are asked to bring material involving character.
If English is not your first language then the text can be in your own language – please bring an English translation.
Format
The workshop runs across the core teaching days of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. These days start at 9 am and finish around 6 pm.
Thursday is a day off for sightseeing around Orkney or rest. Lunch and dinner are not provided that day. You may cook for yourself or eat out at a restaurant. Thursday’s plans will be arranged once you are here. If you opt for the escorted trip this will be using the Centre’s minibus for travel.
Food and Accommodation
You will be housed at the Kristin Linklater Voice Centre in our purpose-built Bothy. All rooms are single occupancy with shared toilet/shower facilities.
Mealtimes are communal. Lunch and dinner are cooked by our own chef. We cater for dietary considerations including the following: gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan and lactose intolerant. We regret to say that we are unable to accommodate more complex dietary requirements. For additional food information please see our FAQs.
Residential workshops at the Centre are fully residential offerings only. No camping facilities are available. The residential experience at the Centre is based on the participants learning, sharing, creating, and working individually and collectively.
Arrivals and Departures
Sunday Arrivals: We anticipate your arrival on Sunday, sometime in the afternoon is good as this ensures you are present for the Welcome Dinner at 6.30 pm. We shall collect you and take you up to the Centre on Sunday at a time suitable to coordinate in with the other arrivals. (Please note travel times: 45 mins from the airport, 20 mins from the ferry).
Saturday Departures: These will be after breakfast and we will arrange to transport you to the ferry/airport or drop you off at your local accommodation.
Travel Arrangements
For more information on how to get here, please contact our local and reputable travel agency Scapa Travel, advising them that you are travelling to Orkney to stay at the Voice Centre.
Should you wish to arrive in Orkney early, or to stay on after your workshop finishes, we recommend you use Orkney.com or another online accommodation site to make your personal arrangements.
Information on Current Covid guidance for travelling to Scotland and International travel to Scotland. can be found using these links. Please note we cannot answer specific individual questions on travel and recommend you contact Scapa Travel with any such queries.
Please ensure that when making your travel arrangements you have suitable insurance to cover any other losses associated with your trip as KLVC and the course organiser cannot take any responsibility for any additional costs.
COVID-19 Regulations
- We are closely monitoring and adhering to Government and local guidelines and will advise you of specific local requirements, if any, prior to the commencement of your workshop.
- Current Scottish Government guidance in respect of COVID-19 can be accessed using this link.
- In order to best manage COVID-19, the Centre asks that everyone tests on (1) arrival before the welcome dinner, (2) on the first morning of the workshop, and (3) on any free day.
- The format of testing is a Lateral Flow Test (also known as a Rapid Antigen Test), which we can supply to you.
- Anyone who feels unwell during their stay is asked to isolate themselves until they feel better or have a negative COVID-19 test. Additional COVID-19 protocols may be put in place by the leader of the workshop, in conjunction with the Centre, and you will be notified of those in addition to this information.
- The wearing of face masks is not required unless stipulated in any additional information from the workshop leader, or if it is a personal preference or requirement.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel more than 30 days before the workshop start date, a 100% refund will be provided.*
If you cancel within 30 – 14 days before the workshop start date a 50% refund will be provided.*
If you cancel within 14 days before the workshop start date no refund will be provided.
Subject to availability, the cost of any amount not refunded could be put towards the cost of another course.
KLVC reserves the right to cancel or reschedule any workshop or event at any time. Should the rescheduled dates or alternative offered by KLVC not be suitable to you we shall refund any payments made by you.
(*less transaction costs and any administration costs incurred)
Contact
If you have any queries about the workshop please contact booking@linklatervoice.com
