Scripture Readers’ Workshop: Reading the Living Word
March 14, 2009 @ 9:30 - 4:00
St. Matthew's, San Mateo
Reading the Bible in church can make the Word live for the person reading and for the whole congregation. Laypeople reading with some regularity already sense that something sacramental can happen as they read the Bible to a listening congregation. How can we make that happen more often?
This Saturday workshop is designed to lay and ordained leaders, training them to work as coaches with volunteer congregational readers. It is also targeted to readers who want to improve their skills and help others to do the same.
Our work will be comprehensive, and will cover the technical work of voice, posture, projection; we will also cover some more advanced skills like communicating meaning --learning to make the text alive and transparent rather than theatrically ornamented. We’ll look at the particular challenges of big spaces, amplified and un-amplified reading, and reading outdoors. Finally, we’ll look creating a company of readers in a congregation who practice together, give constructive feedback, and take responsibility in a congregation for this ministry.
The workshop will be led by Donald and Ellen Schell, founders of St. Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco, who have been working with readers in public speaking for over 30 years, and by Lizzie Calogero, a seasoned bay area actor and speech coach.
This will be a highly interactive workshop, with participants both giving and receiving coaching. Consider inviting a friend from your parish to join you, and you will both receive more than twice the benefit as you take what you learn back to your parish!
Click here to REGISTER for this workshop.
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009
Location: St. Matthew’s, San Mateo
Cost: $30 (includes lunch)
Further information: info@allsaintscompany.org, or 415-558-6958
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