Storyteller Tamara Green

storyteller

TAMARa GREEN

EVENTS

April 2023

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about

Tamara Green was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the Home of the Blues, the Memphis Sound, Isaac Hayes, Elvis Presley’s Graceland, Beale Street, and big family gatherings for every holiday. As an adolescent, she found herself always writing poetry and reading about the history of African American people. Tamara’s grandmother, father, and mother would tell her stories about their past experiences working in the cotton fields, hospitals, the dry cleaners, and other people’s houses. As more opportunities were made available to escape poverty, her mother and father found work that allowed them to take part in the American Dream. When Tamara moved to Florida, she found a community of people who loved to share stories. Suddenly, her childhood, neighbors, and family stories accumulated skin and bones, tears and laughter, and a bunch of remembrances used to create Citified Urban Tales. Then the beauty of folklore, enchanting African tales, Florida stories, and the richness of historical stories began to emerge and take center stage in venues far and near. Welcome to the world of Storyteller Tamara Green.

Workshop Studios

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Jimmie B. Keel

Student

Workshop

Age 18 and up

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Storywriters workshop

Manifesting Personal Stories

Age 18 and up

Let me tell you a story

Developing Story Characters

Jimmie B. Keel

StUdent Workshop

In all my years of telling stories and my 10 years as a teaching artist, I have seen many storytellers, but I’m sure I haven’t seen all the amazing ways to tell a story. There are storytellers who play instruments, tellers who pantomime a story, tellers who sing a story, tellers who dance a story, tellers who tell stories with puppets, and tellers who paint or draw their stories while telling their stories. Each bringing that special part of himself/herself to the performance venue. No matter who brings that something special, it’s always different. The art of storytelling is constantly evolving.This workshop studio focuses on analyzing how storytellers can elevate and adjust their stories vocally to intensify the effect of the story.

Storywriters Workshop

There are many tools for writing a good story regardless of whether it is a personal story, a family story, a job-related story, or a theme related story. This is an adult workshop designed for the following:

Storytellers who write their own stories.
Those looking for or trying to decide upon personal subject matter to write about.
Writers interested in learning how to enhance their stories.
Beginners who aspire to write a good story.
Teachers interested in helping students to see their potential as writers by sharing what they gleam from the workshop.

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developing story Characters

Manifesting Personal stories

In all my years of telling stories and my 10 years as a teaching artist, I have seen many storytellers, but I’m sure I haven’t seen all the amazing ways to tell a story. There are storytellers who play instruments, tellers who pantomime a story, tellers who sing a story, tellers who dance a story, tellers who tell stories with puppets, and tellers who paint or draw their stories while telling their stories. Each bringing that special part of himself/herself to the performance venue. No matter who brings that something special, it’s always different. The art of storytelling is constantly evolving.This workshop studio focuses on how to analyze life’s journeys to create personal stories. Again, this is an adult workshop.

Program Synopsis

Stories Fill the Gap

This storytelling program emphasizes kindness and respect. The presentation consists of folk tales. African stories, Citified Urban Tales, scary stories, and personal stories. Some of these stories include audience participation, and they reinforce the love for reading and writing in and out of the classroom.

Scary Stories that Might Make You Forget to Swallow

This program consists of some very quirky scary short stories that originate from everyday situations that we don’t always talk about. “Scary Stories that Make You Forget to Swallow,” will make you think about what we saw or heard in strange places when we were alone. These stories are spicy, but they come in mild, medium, and somewhat hot.Everyone will be sure to have a favorite story from this delightful selection of original Citified Urban Tales by Storyteller Tamara Green.

African Stories Great and Small

This program of stories celebrates Africa and stories from Africa that exudes diversity, friendship, encouragement, and success. These stories allow animals to talk, and everybody wants to listen and to learn valuable lessons.

The Rockin’ Library

This storytelling program is a giant shout out to the awesome books in the public library that all children could and should read before turning age 99. If you haven’t read books such as Good Night Moon, The Lion and the Mice, The Roar of a Snore, Curious George, Grandpa Willie and the Collard Greens, and more. You’ll want to read them and maybe even get your own audio book.

The African American Experience: Walking Out Our History

This storytelling presentation is exclusively given in February during African American history month. Story topics could include Harriet Tubman, the Little Rock Nine, Ruby Bridges, the historical journey of the American Civil Rights Movement, and the 1963 March on Washington, D.C. *This program has a high school version and an adult version.