By Jacqueline Resendiz Morales
Staff Writer
Photo Credits: CSUDH almuna Demeika Haygood telling her story during the Hollywood By the Horns 2017 Story Slam.
“Hollywood by the Horns” is on its fourth year helping students improve their storytelling skills.
The workshop, Com 390-01, “Finding Your Voice and Telling Your Story,” seeks to connect the diverse student body at Cal State Dominguez Hills with media professionals.
Ryan Bowles Eagle is a communications professor who helped create this program for CSUDH students.
“The program’s mission is to create and foster meaningful connections between our diverse student body and folks working in Hollywood,” Eagle said. “It is founded on the belief that our students, their creative voices and their stories, can make an important impact in the media industries.”
Lisa Callamaro, an instructor and guide, helps students understand the craft of storytelling.
“This is the time in life, before students head out into the world, to get clear on who they are and become aware of their own instincts, as well as how to use their voices to accomplish the things that they desire,” she said. “Stories are the way to connect and share meaning.”
“Hollywood by the Horns” enables students to figure out what experiences have molded them as a person. By learning to tell their stories they will be able to understand themselves and be able to use their storytelling skills in future jobs.
To read about previous students who shared their stories you can visit issuu.com/csudhcompendium/docs/csudhcompendium.
Join “Hollywood by the Horns” Torolink organization page at: torolink.csudh.edu/organization/hollywoodbythehorns.
