Storytelling Professionally - The Nuts and Bolts of a Working Performer

Informationen zum Autor Harlynne Geisler Klappentext Whether you want to become a full time storyteller, expand your storytelling repertoire, or simply hire a storyteller, this guide is for you. Everything you want to know about the profession of storytelling can be found in the book. It will help you sell yourself as a freelance storyteller to schools, libraries, museums, festivals, and other events and organizations. It covers the importance of learning from others; how to organize your time, office, and research; and how to use brochures, business cards, press releases, flyers, mailings, showcases, performer lists, and giveaways to get bookings. She also offers advice on dealing with the competition; preparing yourself for your audience, bookers, and performance area; and problem prevention and solution. Prejudice, censorship, and other issues related to storytelling are highlighted in the final chapter, and an appendix contains How to Host a Freelance Storyteller at Your School or Library. Teachers, librarians, clowns, actors, puppeteers, homemakers, and anyone else interested in storytelling professionally will want this book. Zusammenfassung Whether you want to become a full time storyteller! expand your storytelling repertoire! or simply hire a storyteller! this guide is for you. Prejudice! censorship! and other issues related to storytelling are highlighted in the final chapter! and an appendix contains How to Host a Freelance Storyteller at Your School or Library.

Product details

• Authors: Harlynne Geisler, Geisler Harlynne
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9781563083709
• ISBN: 978-1-56308-370-9
• No. of pages: 130
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Small businesses and self-employment, Acting techniques, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Freelance & Self-Employment