Justine Sless has created tailor-made workshops for Libraries. An author, comedian and MC, Justine has as Masters degree in Creative Writing on gender and comedy, and has performed, taught and researched stand-up comedy for over two decades. Her books are Mistress of Mirth’s Comedy Tour and Measured Silk and Other Stories. Justine offers workshops as follows:
Kids Crash Course in Stand- Up Comedy
Learn performance and joke writing skills to create an original stand-up comedy routine.
No prior comedy writing or performance skills required
Workshop duration 60 minutes
Ages 7+ years
Maximum number of participants 15
‘Even the shyest kids were up the front, using the microphone by the end of the session.
That kind of transformation in such a short amount of time is rare.”
Hobsons Bay Library
Crash Course in Stand- Up Comedy
Teens and Adults
Learn performance and joke writing skills to create an original stand-up comedy routine.
No prior comedy writing or performance skills required.
Workshop duration 60 minutes
Maximum number of participants 15
Write With Wit
For teens or adults.
Use joke writing techniques to add humour to your creative writing.
Look at authors who use humour and understand how this can be applied to your own work.
Participants can read their work aloud to enable feedback and development.
Participants can bring their own work or develop new work in the session.
Workshop duration 90 minutes
Maximum number of participants 15
Comedy & Conversation
Part stand-up, part conversation.
Justine has performed and taught stand-up comedy for two decades
Hear about her comedy writing and how she turned them into short stories.
Sless is author of Mistress of Mirth’s COMEDY Tour an adaptation of her masters thesis on gender and comedy.
Measured Silk & Other Stories is 14 linked stories about loneliness, libraries and connection.
Includes a Q&A, book selling and signing.
Duration 60 minutes
No limit to number of participants.
All worskhops: $550 each or $500 for multiple bookings in the same branch.
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