Join guest artist Dr. Lisa Flanagan and the UNT Performance Interest Group for a three-part workshop exploring stories of self. The first session will take place over Zoom to prepare students for the remaining in-person workshop sessions.

Stories are communal acts both shaped by and shaping one's experiences in the world and interactions with others. We can extend this notion to the stories we tell about ourselves. Autobiographies are acts of invention, composing and embodying narratives of self in how we reconstruct and reinterpret lives through memories, experiences, and identities that change and morph and are affected by time and space, individual goals, social roles, and cultural scripts and practices.

For this three session workshop, we will expand on the MyStory notion of the writerly stance towards the composition and performance of stories of self that focus on invention, play, and discovery over representational reproduction. Our investigations will also extend beyond MyStory, emphasizing the social, cultural, and collective nature and power of stories, including stories of self. Our stories are flexible, fragmented, interconnected, and expressed in malleable forms to multiple audiences. Together, we can learn how to adapt our life stories to reflect and refract various contexts, content, and collaborators in combiographical acts that create our stories of selves through our relational dynamics.

Session 1:

• When: Friday, October 3 , 1 PM - 2 PM
• Where: Zoom (Click here to join the meeting)
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Session 2:

• When: Thursday, October 9, 4 PM - 6 PM
• Where: Black Box Theatre, GAB 321
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Session 3:

• When: Friday, October 10, 12 PM - 3 PM
• Where: Black Box Theatre, GAB 321