Storytelling

My new outdoor office

by Cellobella on Friday, January 13, 2012 · 1 comment

You find me this afternoon, dear reader, writing from my new outdoor office. I’m mid holiday, we’ve finished the pergola and the decking. It’s 35 degrees and hot so I’m in my wet bikini (imagine me slim please) with a large glass of icy water which I hope will be replaced by a St Clair [...]

My first time in Bali, told live without notes

by Cellobella on Thursday, March 31, 2011 · 2 comments

So The Bird was a revelation. What a great venue. Small, intimate – yet with quite a lot of seating. Cute bar. Great acoustics. (a little warm – but hey it’s winter soon… please tell me winter is happening this year) It was the first night of Barefaced since the Blue Room season ended and [...]

Baring all at The Bird

by Cellobella on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 · 4 comments

Don’t get too excited – the clothes are staying on. What am I saying? Get excited! This is stage two of the story-telling project I’m involved in. You remember part 1 don’t you? Barefaced Stories. Part 1 was me doing the course and then telling my nude beach story at the Blue Room in February. [...]

Finding Nigel

by Cellobella on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 · 1 comment

So we found the sculpture (pictured above) and now Narelle wants to find Nigel. Narelle being Alison, or at least Alison when she was 20, and fresh born into the city. The back story. The search. Anyhoo the thing is that Alison is in Sydney this week – and so is the artist that sculpted [...]

A story from my first trip to Bali

by Cellobella on Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Ah back in the day when I thought flouro pink was an acceptable colour to wear on your head (in the early 1990s) Groover and I went to Bali. We went white water rafting in Ubud and banana boating off Nusa Dua. We went to the Holy Monkey Forest and suffered Bali Belly – at [...]

Alison’s vagina

by Cellobella on Monday, February 28, 2011 · 1 comment

I was witness to a very special moment this weekend at a barbecue celebrating our storytelling success at the Blue Room… watch out for Barefaced Stories at a pub near you soon! The backstory: A few weeks ago, Ali and I signed up for a storytelling course… you remember that nude beach story… that course… [...]

Nudie Rudie

by Cellobella on Friday, January 21, 2011

I am doing a storytelling course (Barefaced Stories) at The Blue Room Theatre with Margot Leitman (check out one of her stories on The Moth). Eight sessions and at the end we will have a polished story. Each session we have homework. The first assignment – “do something outside your comfort zone”. This required some [...]