30/03/2012
Advanced Communicator Gold!
I opened this blog, to write different things about Communications, when I finished my first ten projects / speeches in my Toastmasters Club and got the Competent Communicator award,
After two more manuals Storytelling and Speaking to inform, with 5 projects / speeches each, I become Advanced Communicator Bronze. Then followed Entertaining manual and Speciality Speeches, other ten, different speech projects and plus two educational ones, and I was awarded Advanced Communicator Silver. I choose then two more Advanced Toastmasters manuals, Interpretative Reading and well, I have to look it up, plus a Workshop I had to hold which taught me a lot about Workshops, and now, yesterday, I received the Advanced Communicator Gold diploma! The highest in what they call the Communication track at Toastmasters International.
So 45 official speeches - mostly personal stories inside them - and a lot others, as I went as Mystery speaker a few times in different other clubs. I also went to tell my stories, ten or fifteen, to the Theatre, with Spark London and, of course, last year begun also to go to Standup comedy clubs where I am at my 22 or 23th. In all, the last three years, at least 80 times meeting the audience.
Which is normal, as at the first one, it is called Icebreaker in the Toastmasters clubs, I fall in love with the audience and the audience's reaction to my stories (and me telling them). Of course, as with a love affair, you go back for more. It is such a wonderful feeling, this communication with those in the audience!
Wether they are a class of 4 to 5 years old kids in a library of London or adult audience tasting Whisky in the Manchester town hall, or pals in one of my Toastmasters clubs, or unknown paying public at Canal Cafe Theatre, or a young men public in a Soho pub downstairs, I communicate with them and get so much energy back, I come home and can not sleep for hours. A wonderful feeling for which I go back again and again.
A nice printed certificate, a diploma from a heat I won is nice, but the feeling of high I get from the audience is what keeps me going for it again and again.
After two more manuals Storytelling and Speaking to inform, with 5 projects / speeches each, I become Advanced Communicator Bronze. Then followed Entertaining manual and Speciality Speeches, other ten, different speech projects and plus two educational ones, and I was awarded Advanced Communicator Silver. I choose then two more Advanced Toastmasters manuals, Interpretative Reading and well, I have to look it up, plus a Workshop I had to hold which taught me a lot about Workshops, and now, yesterday, I received the Advanced Communicator Gold diploma! The highest in what they call the Communication track at Toastmasters International.
So 45 official speeches - mostly personal stories inside them - and a lot others, as I went as Mystery speaker a few times in different other clubs. I also went to tell my stories, ten or fifteen, to the Theatre, with Spark London and, of course, last year begun also to go to Standup comedy clubs where I am at my 22 or 23th. In all, the last three years, at least 80 times meeting the audience.
Which is normal, as at the first one, it is called Icebreaker in the Toastmasters clubs, I fall in love with the audience and the audience's reaction to my stories (and me telling them). Of course, as with a love affair, you go back for more. It is such a wonderful feeling, this communication with those in the audience!
Wether they are a class of 4 to 5 years old kids in a library of London or adult audience tasting Whisky in the Manchester town hall, or pals in one of my Toastmasters clubs, or unknown paying public at Canal Cafe Theatre, or a young men public in a Soho pub downstairs, I communicate with them and get so much energy back, I come home and can not sleep for hours. A wonderful feeling for which I go back again and again.
A nice printed certificate, a diploma from a heat I won is nice, but the feeling of high I get from the audience is what keeps me going for it again and again.
27/03/2012
Who else would make it?
If I would not, who else would make it for me?
Well, here it is, whom. Thanks Tim!
The 20th March 2012 Comedy Car Crash
Well, here it is, whom. Thanks Tim!
The 20th March 2012 Comedy Car Crash
Another superb Comedy Car Crash. The birth of more than one promising act and a
brilliant performance by 77 year old Julie Kertes z.
Thanks to everybody who performed and watched!
Love from Tim / by: Lions Den"
Here is a link to the performance, filmed (as a surprise to me) by Alina.
Video life performance
Here is a link to the performance, filmed (as a surprise to me) by Alina.
26/03/2012
Last year, I discovered: I had funny eyes
The story of 2011 in my life, told at Canal Café Theatre live. 11 Minutes. Theme "Change".
We appeared 5 from Lewisham Speakers that evening, it was the dare I gave myself a few month before, to create a True Storytelling workshop in my club and to bring the participants up to showcase what they learned to the stage. Five of nine got there, as chosen by Joanna, and the others will soon, too.
I was the one opening the show with this true personal story. Video taken by Flavia from afar with my small photo camera.
This is not a comedy, but the story of how and why I arrived to become Standup, production "Spark London & Julie Kertesz from Lewisham speakers Toastmasters", Joanna Yates wrote on the program. Of course, in fact, as usual, she was the producer.
We appeared 5 from Lewisham Speakers that evening, it was the dare I gave myself a few month before, to create a True Storytelling workshop in my club and to bring the participants up to showcase what they learned to the stage. Five of nine got there, as chosen by Joanna, and the others will soon, too.
I was the one opening the show with this true personal story. Video taken by Flavia from afar with my small photo camera.
This is not a comedy, but the story of how and why I arrived to become Standup, production "Spark London & Julie Kertesz from Lewisham speakers Toastmasters", Joanna Yates wrote on the program. Of course, in fact, as usual, she was the producer.
24/03/2012
Rumbo's : the Lion's Den, video by Alina
Now, I will have to try to obtain more time, 5 minutes goes so fast away, and I have more to say.
23/03/2012
Stories persuade! Listen to Steve Edge
What goes around, comes around, delivered in Lausanne for TedX by Steve Edge
Instead of "preaching" tell stories that prove your point!
21/03/2012
Comedy Bin
The Comedy Bin has many venues in London, more then one for each night. Last night I performed to the first one called "The Lion's Den" near Picadilly. It was not easy to find "Rumba" is on the door, other night, very different kind of entertainment. I did arrive in time, and I put my name down.
'You? You are performing?'
They well intrigued by that old lady, there not just to look but to do a set.
A great compère, is a great asset, he was very good!
A public, where someone laugh strongly and often is too, we had also that, it turned out later, he was also on Logan's class last year. All the audience were warm and supporting even if most of them, but not only, composed by comedians . The comedians were great too.
Yes, and my number went extremely well, one of my three best!
(later I will add here the video, which was taken without me knowing about it)
My next gig is also in a Comedy Bin, but a different one.
28 mars, 20:00 – 22:00
'You? You are performing?'
They well intrigued by that old lady, there not just to look but to do a set.
A great compère, is a great asset, he was very good!
A public, where someone laugh strongly and often is too, we had also that, it turned out later, he was also on Logan's class last year. All the audience were warm and supporting even if most of them, but not only, composed by comedians . The comedians were great too.
Yes, and my number went extremely well, one of my three best!
(later I will add here the video, which was taken without me knowing about it)
My next gig is also in a Comedy Bin, but a different one.
28 mars, 20:00 – 22:00
The Alchemist Comedy Bin, very friendly and free comedy
225 St Johns Hill London SW11 1TH (plan)
http://www.thea
Free entry with MC Aatif Nawaz compère
http://www.come
With: Bobby Freeman Saskia Preston Jason Hayler Ben Morgan Andy Onions Omar Hamdi Chris Gau Adam Richardson Poppy Brewer Peri Whyte Becky Bone Nick Elleray Andrew MacConnell & Julie Kertesz
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