Churchill Memorial
An Adult Learning Workshop entitled “I Used To Hear Them Say: Mining the Memories for Stories” will be held from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 18, in The Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States, located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, MO.
The guest speaker is Milbre Burch, a celebrated storyteller and artist. The cost is $5.00 for materials and the first 20 people to RSVP will be registered. Attendees are welcome to bring a sack lunch.
In this hands-on workshop, participants begin the work of mining the memory for family stories. Through a series of questions, workshop participants are led to consider the origin of their own names; to call up the sense of memories of early childhood; to begin to catalog the characters and locations important to the family landscape; and to review the sayings, slogans and family myths held in trust by various family members.
Using inquiry as a tool, participants can begin to examine the raw precious metals and unpolished gemstones of personal history and start to polish them with insight and adorn them with imagination to ensure that the heart of the story is passed on to future generations. This two-hour workshop is ideal for storytellers, family elders, creative writing teachers and community builders of all kinds.
Milbre Burch is an internationally known storyteller, award-winning recording artist, published poet and writer and respected teacher of her craft. Called “one of the most important voices in the storytelling revival,” Burch is known for the versatility of her repertoire from family-oriented folktales to more sophisticated fantasy and fairy tales for teens to one-woman shows aimed at adults.
She has been an artist-in-residence since 1978, working for local and state councils in Utah, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Rhode Island, California, Kansas and Missouri. Her students have been mainstream Pre-K to 12th grades as well as gifted, ESL, hearing impaired and developmentally disabled children of all ages; at-risk teens; well elders; mentally challenged adults; minimum and maximum security prison inmates; college students, conference attendees, fellow tellers, family business owners, therapists, ministers, rabbis and lay-people and countless teachers earning CEU’s.
Burch lives with her family and a Border terrier under the huge sky of Columbia, Missouri.
Interested members of the community can RSVP by contacting Mandy Crump, Education/Public Programs Coordinator, at 573-592-6242 or Mandy.Crump@churchillmemorial.org.
The Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States is located on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton, MO, the site of Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech. The Memorial was founded in 1969 to honor the life and legacy of one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. It is housed within the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, a 12th century church from the middle of London, redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677 and relocated to Fulton in 1969. The Undercroft of this beautiful and historic Wren church is a museum filled with a priceless treasury of artifacts and information relating to the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill.
The Churchill Memorial is open from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. Admission is Adults: $6.00; Senior Citizens, AAA and AARP members: $5.00; Youth (12-18): $4.00; College Students: $4.00; Children (6-11): $3.00; and Children (5 and under): free.