"Taking A Stand" Women's Storytelling Workshop in Simsbury

On Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 pm, the Storyteller’s Cottage will host acclaimed professional storyteller Jennifer Munro for a unique workshop for women, “Taking a Stand.” Using storytelling to teach women to take back their own narratives, Jennifer will lead a discussion based on the themes of control, power and powerlessness, and will share an original adult fairy tale.

We have all experienced moments of powerlessness, the need to take control and exercise our own power. What narratives lie behind these moments, and how can they be transformed into stories that empower and heal?

As a child growing up in a large working class family in in the industrial Midlands in England, Jennifer Munro fell in love with the spoken word. Poignant, funny, and profoundly moving, Jennifer’s extensive repertoire of stories are carefully crafted narratives that resonate with the frailty and courage of the human spirit. However, what really sets Jennifer’s stories apart is the precision of her language and vividly dawn images. Greg Weiss, storyteller and actor, said her work “. . . is filled with bulls, bicycles, buckets of fish and other wonder tokens of childhood and growing up. Jennifer Munro takes [us] to that place, just beyond the watchful, if not winking, eye of authority and introduces an assortment of characters, some endearing, some dangerous, all captivating . . . Her language transports us to locales and circumstances that would be familiar to Dickens, Twain, and even J.K. Rowling.” Jennifer’s recordings and her collection of short stories are all Storytelling World winners and in 2017 she received the Barbara Reed Award for distinguished and outstanding service to the Connecticut Storytelling Community.

Tickets for the Taking a Stand workshop are $40 each and can be reserved at https://www.storytellerscottage.com/book-online/women-s-storytelling-workshop

The Storyteller’s Cottage is located in a vintage Victorian house in the center of historic Simsbury, CT, and hosts all manner of immersive literary events throughout the year, including Agatha Christie inspired live murder mystery parties, Great Gatsby themed Jazz Supper Clubs, fascinating close-up illusions at Fine Parlor Magic nights, a Literary Dinner Party series on select evenings at midnight, and more.

The Storyteller's Cottage is located at 750 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury. Parking for The Storyteller's Cottage is free, and is available on the street in front of the building, and in the Fiddler's Green parking lot on Wilcox Street (behind the house). For more information, please call 860-877-6099 or visit www.StorytellersCottage.com.