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Storytelling with Ada Cheng

|Course Description||

This well-rounded storytelling class will place an emphasis on personal stories. In this class you will learn different things as you embark on the journey of storytelling, some related to you as a person/storyteller/artist, as well as to the larger environment you live in. This class will cover the basic tenets of storytelling as well as the different forms/genres and the structural contexts in which they exist. You will finish this class with at least one or two good stories and will get the chance to perform them on stage with your classmates.

||Details||
Class runs from 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM on Saturdays starting May 6th.

May 6th 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
May 13th 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
May 20th OFF
May 27th 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
June 3rd 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
June 10th 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
June 17th 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

||About the Instructor||
Ada Cheng is a professor-turned-storyteller, improviser, and stand-up comic. She is a one-time Moth StorySLAM winner, a presenter at the National Storytelling Conference, and a runner-up at Chicago's Bughouse Square Debates. She has been featured at storytelling shows in Chicago and in Atlanta and she has told stories at The Moth in Chicago, New York, Denver, and Detroit. She debuted her solo show, Not Quite: Asian American by Law, Asian Woman by Desire, with SOLO Chicago Festival.