William Yang Storytelling Workshops

15 March 2009 & 22 March 2009

Performance 4A presents a rare opportunity for budding storytellers, playwrights, scriptwriters, poets and authors to join celebrated photographer and monologist William Yang for storytelling workshops in Sydney on 15 & 22 March 2009.

The workshops will discuss participant’s stories and their suitability for adaptation. Selected pieces will be developed over the two workshops.

William Yang is a well-known photographer and performer. Since 1989, he has been performing monologues with image projection and music in the theatre. HIs pieces tend to be autobiographical and they explore themes of marginalisation in the Australian Chinese family, gay community and aboriginal community. To date, Yang has completed ten full-length pieces, most of which have toured Australia and internationally.