Wednesday evenings from 6:15-8:45pm at Story Parlor
2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20
Early Bird pricing through January 7
Regular price effective January 8
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience. We recommend signing up EARLY!
Refund and Covid policies can be found here.
Join this seven-week deep-dive into the power of personal story as a basis for strong, authentic fiction. Participants will be challenged to know their truth and how they want to say it. Then, through a series of interactive workshops and exercises will learn how to imbue that truth into fictional characters in invented worlds. With fiction as cover, the writer is free to explore the truth without consequences.
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A certified Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator, R. Lyon Bergh is a writer, actor, and filmmaker currently living and creating in Asheville, NC. He (or she) expresses creative storytelling through poetry, song, short & long-form prose, short & long-form screenwriting, oral storytelling, comedy improv, and just about any other way that (s)he can find. He received his undergrad from Wilmington University in Marketing with a strong concentration in Creative Writing. Following that, he was a finalist for the High Residency MFA Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, studied Meisner Acting at the New York Studio for Stage and Screen, and is a proud alumni of Asheville School of Film.
Early recognition was for a submission to the Wilmington Drama League’s One Act Play Festival, where he received multiple awards including Best Director and Best Original Stage Play. More recently, he was published twice in the WNC Woman magazine and has earned recognition for contributions to the 48hr film project in Asheville.
More details: https://www.rlyonbergh.com
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Participants can expect an interactive experience that will safely unlock the vulnerable truths of our individual and collective experience. Regardless of whether these experiences were joyful, wounding, terrifying, heroic, or personally challenging, the wisdom they carry can be brought truthfully to others through the protective cover of fiction. We will play, and through make-believe, show our true selves.
This is for:
Artists of all mediums
Those who have a deeply personal story to tell
Storytellers with a desire to reach audiences with truth
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"With gusto and grace, Lyon immerses participants in the power of multi-sensory meaning-making. From song and videoto costumes and the written word, I was transfixed by the joy of responding to the creative impulse and relaxed in the laughter of playful connections.”
“Lyon is a true visionary and creative steward. With a depth of knowledge infused by an insatiable curiosity, Lyon’s offerings yield an air of alchemy that naturally lead participants to unlock the wisdom already within them.”