story telling workshop with Matt – 16-02-17

We did a workshop with Matt based around story telling and vaguely tied memories in with that. It was really fun but out of my comfort zone as we had to do some drama related exercises, but it was good to interact with some of the 2nd year students.We started by playing a shouting game where we had to shout about our favourite place in Brighton/strangest person we’ve seen in Brighton across the room to someone we don’t know and see how much we could learn about them. It was interesting to say the least, and I now have some new places to visit! Another thing we did was create a map of Brighton on which we drew different memories on parts of the map. We gathered stories in a really fun, clever way. We all sat in an outward circle, and were given a name each, which was random and made up. We were then given all of the made up names of everyone in the room and asked to write letters to each other including funny/weird/gross/random memories from Brighton. It was so much fun because everyone was completely oblivious to who each made up name belonged to so we would strike up these random relationships with people and learn lots about them without actually having a clue who you were writing to. At the end the mystery was revealed and we found out who we had been corresponding with, which was amusing. I would love to experiment with this technique again. The map was really fun and looked great with everyones individual illustrative styles. Here are some snippets of the map: