Tonight a new Humorous speech: 'clean'

 Tonight, I will try at the French Toastmasters Club called French Connection, near the Holborn Viaduct, a 'clean' humorous motivational speech. Hope, will be able to have a video to add it here.

Of course, I do not feel that using playfully a few times 'shit' or 'fuck' is dirty, but some old fashioned still do. Even for the stage only. I am old, yes, soon 80, but not old fashioned, stuffy, hypocrite.

My great great mother told me a story when she was 92 ending it with 'and then I decided never to be hypocrite.' I do remember it as if it happened to me, not 100 years ago.

Anyway, I have to have different repertoire for different audiences. So this one is great to build on later, expend from seven minutes to a lot more. I even found some new transitions!

The problem loose its teeth... Ah, yes, about teeth, later I lost three.

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Well, 'clean' did not give me any point. Neither did the great laugh of the audience, many times.

So what? It is not the first time I ask myself how they judge. I got from it good pals, who liked it a lot. I got also good new lines I wrote specially for it and will reuse from now on in my gig and texts. It was well worth doing it. I got one step farther then I was last week.

Holiday disasters, live from Upstairs at Ritzy, Brixton

Spark London organised Open Mic event, theme was "Holiday Disasters"

Here my story of my first and last camping in family (near the Lague di Garda, Italy)

Photos I took in the Photographers Gallery

I went to see my photos in the Gallery centre London: so far only this one goes on, but soon at least one more. Then, who knows.

This one is mine!

And I found nice people at the gallery, interesting around the Oxford circles, so many uses mobile devices these days!

Yes, I should not forget, I am also a passionate photographer.

This days, the others photographers visiting my images on the Flickr site jumped from 1000 by day to up more 6000 daily visits who do come to look at some of my photos. Even if does not last: it seems impressive.

Of course, it does not beat the 200 faithful readers returning  for almost ten years by now, day after day to read my French blog Il y a de la vie après 70 ans (there is life after 70 - which I proved day after day), nor the rush of joy I feel telling, being with live audience or the energy they give me.

Now or never : seize when yet another chance arrives

Now or Never was the theme of that night at Spark London true storytelling event.

http://m.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/now-or-never-julie-kertez/

My first ever story told at Canal Café Theatre with Spark London, 
this soundtrack is published recently on Mixcloud by Spark London, yesterday twittered.

I listened at it, again this morning.

Created fall 2009, told on scene in October 2009 : it begins and ends telling how important role Toastmasters clubs played in my life when I was 45 and at 75 again. Also my move from Paris to London, which was then recent in my mind. How I found my home, then my community. And fall in love. With the audience.

Today, I would tell it differently, probably more humour added with some of opening up for some of my initial motives for example. But without me realising then, I was already funny, and the audience laughed already a few times.

Most important, I am stunned that what I want to fight for now and tomorrow, what I believe in, come out clear and did not essentially change. My attachment to the public speaking clubs in London "Toastmasters" and my believe in the importance of personal stories. And also, to prove by example that it is Never to late, but we do have to seize the chance when it arrives.

the second time, the third time, there is always yet another. Now or never? Take it now!

Bill Cosby Keynote at Commencement Carnegie Mellon

From minute 5 till end a very personal story and very strong point given by the story.

Fish out of water, Spark London is back

We're back at the Canal Cafe Theatre on Monday. 

Joanna Yates will be hosting a curated night of stories themed around "Fish Out of Water". Come and join us at 7.30pm. 2nd September. Will tell also a tale about how our life changed and my father decided... 

Spark London: Fish out of Water

2nd Septembre at 7:30pm Canal Cafe Theatre in London, United Kingdom

Joanna Yates, producer of Spark London shows, before the repetition.

A personal story conquered all!

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

With a humorous speech titled "Changed by a Tire," Presiyan Vasilev, a 30-year-old sales professional from Chicago, Illinois, won the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking on Saturday, Aug. 24. Vasilev, along with eight other final contestants, reached the championship level after several eliminating rounds that began six months ago with 30,000 participants from 122 countries.

"This is a dream come true," said Vasilev, a native of Bulgaria.

His speech resonated with a capacity crowd of nearly 1,600 from around the world, who attended the contest held in the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. His winning speech was about the personal experience of reaching out and asking for help.

 "I stopped to change a tire; instead the tire changed me," he said. "I believed reaching out was a weakness, but I discovered my weakness was in refusing to reach out."

Vasilev joined Toastmasters three years ago and competed in many speech contests before reaching his goal of earning the title of World Champion of Public Speaking. In his acceptance speech, he said, "Toastmasters is the best personal development laboratory you can find."

Vasilev immigrated to the United States 11 years ago from Sofia, Bulgaria, in search of "multicultural variety" and self-improvement. He found his voice in Toastmasters, where he joined six clubs in Chicago. "I love competing, and I have benefited from the wonderful support of my Toastmasters family," he said. Vasilev says he looks forward to returning the favor and wants to use his championship experience to mentor others. He offers the following advice: "Never give up!"

Speakers delivered five- to seven-minute speeches on wide-ranging topics, and were judged on content, organization and delivery.

Vasilev claimed the title of Toastmasters' 2013 World Champion of Public Speaking during the organization's annual convention held in Cincinnati, Aug. 21-24. Second- and third-place winners were Shurooq AlBanna from Dubai, United Arab Emirates with her speech, "Finding the Pearl " and Kingi Biddle from Rotorua, New Zealand, with his speech titled "My Sitting Place."

About Toastmasters International
Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations. Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, the organization's membership exceeds 292,000 in more than 14,350 clubs in 122 countries. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped people of all backgrounds become more confident in front of an audience. For information about local Toastmasters clubs, visit www.toastmasters.org.