Touring
Listening Lounges
The Wilding Stories is touring WA in 2022-2024, inviting, communities, events and festivals to host the audio storytelling project, as a listening lounge experience.
The Wilding Stories Listening Lounges vary as each community creates its own version of an independent ambient indoor or semi-outdoor space, with couches, chairs or armchairs, cushions, rugs. The project can supply some cushions and rugs and various natural "decorative dressings” if needed.
The event presenter and/or their community liason person sources space & venue furniture/dressings to create a 'safe quiet deep listening environment’ in consultation with the Wilding Stories producer.
The audio installation runs for 1.5 hour sessions: 45 mins deep listening to the three audio story versions and an essential 45 mins (minimum) allowed for conversation. We also allow for private 1-1 reflection/discussion afterwards when needed.
The stories are generally heard collectively with groups of varying sizes and multiple facilitators but can also work in intimate spaces, with or without 6 audio headsets, as stand alone installation.
The project can partner with our touring artists team offering relevant and connected workshops following the Listening Lounge experience on the same day, or on consecutive days in a festival, bush camp environment or as a short residency.
“The best storytelling is that which builds a community, and it is in turn, a communal responsibility to make the space… safer for stories.”
- Amani Haydar
The Mother Wound
The Wilding Workshops: Short Film
The Wilding Stories Artist Camp, development of Artist Workshops. November 2021. Film by Jane Hammond.
Workshops
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Margot Edwards - Key Project Artist / Listening Lounge Facilitator and Workshop Artist
Facilitation of The Wilding Stories Listening Lounge – holding safe space for sharing stories. Group fun with Improvisation - wordgames, lyrical writing workshops for deep connection with self and others, personal story through movement and group-devised theatre
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Tilly Kelleher - Listening Lounge Facilitator & Workshop Artist
Co-Facilitation of The Wilding Stories Listening Lounge. Inspiring group workshops in voice, sound and harmony. Performer, songwriter and lyricist
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Dr Lynette Narkle - Noongar elder, actor and storyteller
Co-facilitation of The Wilding Stories Listening Lounge. Personal story sharing and advocate for indigenous women's empowerment
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Sandy McKendrick - Entwined
A chance to share stories while our hands
are busy. Learn the tactile pleasure of
preparing natural plant materials to form a
woven string of strength and beauty.
Lightweight objects or icons can be
attached to your string through simple
techniques. Several other workshop
options are available including land art. -
Miranda Aitken - Writing the River Within
Be gently guided into taking a deep
explorative dive into poetry, wild elements,
landscapes and symbolism. Elemental, gentle, held intimacy. -
Bec Schofield - Natural Voice
Be gently guided through a process where
you’ll reconnect with nature and your
authentic voice. Feel embodied, liberated
and connected. -
Janine Oxenham - Dancer, Choreographer
Mulgana woman. Telling stories with our bodies.
A movement workshop that guides you to
explore your own way of moving. Working
individually, in pairs and in groups we
create movement phrases that explore
feminine strength, vulnerability, curiosity &
human connection. -
Tamara Clements - From The Soil
A meeting with the wild places and the wild weeds within us, exploring invitations and intuitive connection between each.
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Jacqui Hills - Printmaking
Exploring a process of creative and
intentional play with mono-print
techniques, including colour, motifs and
found objects of the natural wild world. -
Anu Grace - Developing Our Soul Language
Our soul holds the wisdom we’re seeking.
Develop your own resourceful self through
improvisations with the mediums of voice, breath, drum, eukele and movement. -
Sari Bennett - Finding Voice
A delightful fun dance with words and
memory; embodying our stories through
poetry. Light as a feather and deep as an
ocean; a magical process entering a deep
stage of storytelling, creative writing and
sharing our voices.
TECH SPECS FOR TOURING TO FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
Tech specs downloadable HERE