Traditions and Truth: A Virtual Open Mic

Link to Event: https://storytelling.org/events/traditions-and-truth/ Event Website: https://storytelling.org/events/traditions-and-truth/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: info@illinoisstorytelling.org Illinois Storytelling.org and Dominican University present: Traditions and Truth: A Virtual Open Mic featuring Amy Crump Saturday, December 2 at 7-8:30 pm CST on Zoom Email Janice at: jdelnegro@dom.edu for the Zoom link and/or if you are interested in telling a story (7-10 minutes)

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OARS in the Water: Looking Back to Go Forward

Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/oars/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Healing Story Alliance presents: OARS in the Water: Looking Back to Go Forward Wednesday, December 27th at 7:00-8:30 pm EST online Hosted by Mike Seliger and Barbara Aliprantis As the calendar turns from a tumultuous 2023 to the uncertainty of a new year, wisdom found in past experiences and stories can be helpful as we look ahead. Barbara and Mike, two old friends, will reflect on past moments that enabled them to move forward with love, hope and humor, inviting participants to share at this special time… OARS in the Water is a facilitated Zoom gathering on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month offered by Healing Story Alliance to create a listening space to share the experiences and stories that have emerged through turbulent times. This is not a therapeutic circle but we do hope it will be healing, supportive and inspiring. Admission is free, although donations are deeply appreciated and help support our programming. Your tax deductible donation can be made below: https://square.link/u/d9xbGN2I We’ll gather via Zoom. Here is the NEW link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09

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OARS in the Water: Change

Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/oars/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Healing Story Alliance presents: OARS in the Water: Change Wednesday, December 13th at 7:00-8:30 pm EST online Hosted by Sara deBeer and Ai-Lin Chuah Change is inevitable in every person’s life. In this evening together, we will explore how change occurs in the natural world and in each of our lives. OARS in the Water is a facilitated Zoom gathering on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month offered by Healing Story Alliance to create a listening space to share the experiences and stories that have emerged through turbulent times. This is not a therapeutic circle but we do hope it will be healing, supportive and inspiring. Admission is free, although donations are deeply appreciated and help support our programming. Your tax deductible donation can be made below: https://square.link/u/d9xbGN2I We’ll gather via Zoom. Here is the NEW link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09

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Women’s Voices: Healing Stories Concert

Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/womans-voices-healing-stories-concert-tickets-151502 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/healing-story-alliance-workshops/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Healing Story Alliance presents: Women's Voices: Healing Stories Concert A Fundraiser for HSA Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 7:00-8:30 pm EST Tickets: $15-$40 Registration link: https://www.simpletix.com/e/womans-voices-healing-stories-concert-tickets-151502 Emcee: Laura Simms Tellers: Penny Post, Karianna Rosenberg, Elisa Pearmain, Heather Forest, Noa Baum, Lani Peterson, Sara deBeer

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MoonShine Stories: Tales for a Full Moon

Link to Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/764791470877?aff=oddtdtcreator Event Phone: 651-703-8191 Event Contact Email: folktalesrising@gmail.com MoonShine Stories: Tales for a Full Moon Monday, November 27 at 9pm CST Featuring Simon Brooks and Dan Keding Under One Moon in a Zoom Room November 27 = Beaver Moon

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Laura Packer Featured at The Story Space online

Link to Event: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Website: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Phone: (857) 998-1592 Event Contact Email: NYTB@comcast.net The Story Space online Every Tuesday from 6:45-9:00 P.M. EST Note: We are on EST (Eastern Standard Time), 5 hours behind GMT, or UTC-5 To attend: 1) Go to http://www.StorySpace.org and 2) In the banner click on “Meeting Invitation” (a new one will be posted every Tuesday by 6:00 PM EST. Otherwise, there will be a placeholder message.) To Subscribe to our mailing list: https://tinyletter.com/StorySpace To correspond with us: info@storyspace.org There is an $8 requested donation: http://www.storyspace.org/Kitty.asp (There is no entry fee. You can donate at any time). Laura Packer: Laura is an award-winning storyteller who began telling stories 30+ years ago at Brother Blue's open mic. Her stories range from funny to poignant, personal to traditional, original fiction to literary, and more. She knows that stories have the power to connect, amuse, heal, and change worlds. Feature’s website: http://laurapacker.com/ There is an $8 requested donation. The Story Space runs every Tuesday Night from 6:45 – 9:00 P.M. EST. Storytelling of all types and styles, in a friendly, cooperative venue where seasoned tellers and newcomers alike are received with full attention. There are no content restrictions, other than prohibiting deliberately offensive language. Try out a new story, spin an old favorite, or just listen. No Topics. No Competition. No Judging. Just Stories. In the spirit of Brother Blue. There is an $8 requested donation. http://www.storyspace.org/Kitty.asp. Signup for Open Telling (8-minute slots) starts at 6:45 P.M. EST. Open Telling starts at 7:00 P.M. EST sharp. Followed by the Featured Teller at around 8:00 P.M. EST. To learn more, or be on our mailing list: info@StorySpace.Org "Programs Subject to Change" www.StorySpace.org

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Open Telling Featured at The Story Space online, Tue 11/14/2023

Link to Event: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Website: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Phone: (857) 998-1592 Event Contact Email: NYTB@comcast.net The Story Space online Every Tuesday from 6:45-9:00 P.M. EST Note: We are on EST (Eastern Standard Time), 5 hours behind GMT, or UTC-5 To attend: 1) Go to http://www.StorySpace.org and 2) In the banner click on “Meeting Invitation” (a new one will be posted every Tuesday by 6:00 PM EST. Otherwise, there will be a placeholder message.) To Subscribe to our mailing list: https://tinyletter.com/StorySpace To correspond with us: info@storyspace.org There is an $8 requested donation: http://www.storyspace.org/Kitty.asp (There is no entry fee. You can donate at any time). Open Telling: There is no feature so please bring a tale you've always wanted to tell, or isn't quite ready, or a November thing: National Vinegar Day, National Cinnamon Day, World Jellyfish Day, Thanksgiving, National Day of Mourning, Black Friday, Occult Day, National Take A Hike Day, or Use Less Stuff Day. There is an $8 requested donation. The Story Space runs every Tuesday Night from 6:45 – 9:00 P.M. EST. Storytelling of all types and styles, in a friendly, cooperative venue where seasoned tellers and newcomers alike are received with full attention. There are no content restrictions, other than prohibiting deliberately offensive language. Try out a new story, spin an old favorite, or just listen. No Topics. No Competition. No Judging. Just Stories. In the spirit of Brother Blue. There is an $8 requested donation. http://www.storyspace.org/Kitty.asp. Signup for Open Telling (8-minute slots) starts at 6:45 P.M. EST. Open Telling starts at 7:00 P.M. EST sharp. Followed by the Featured Teller at around 8:00 P.M. EST. To learn more, or be on our mailing list: info@StorySpace.Org "Programs Subject to Change" www.StorySpace.org

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Kind Stories in Concert

Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-december-3-2023-tickets-149599 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Register here to Receive a FREE Kind Stories in Concert Zoom Link https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-december-3-2023-tickets-149599 Click here to Donate and help make programs like this possible https://square.link/u/d9xbGN2I ‘Kindness is having the ability to speak with love, listen with patience, and act with compassion.” -Random Acts of Kindness Foundation Join the Healing Story Alliance for a special gathering to share and explore stories of kindness in its many faces and forms. Through folk tales and personal stories, we will dive deeply into multiple experiences of kindness. What is it? How does it impact us and our relationships to ourselves, to each other, to the world? Come and listen to “kind stories” shared by both professional tellers and community members and see what memories of kindness emerge for you. Date: Dec 3, 2023 Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm EST (Open Mic Story Share and Reflection: last half hour) Format: The story session opens with a concert of seasoned tellers and community tellers sharing stories with themes of kindness. During the second half of the gathering, audience members are invited to share a story, moment, or reflection about kindness that emerged for them as listeners. Purpose: We all need a little more kindness in our lives. Perhaps a story can take us there. “WHEN YOU ARE KIND TO OTHERS, IT NOT ONLY CHANGES YOU, IT CHANGES THE WORLD.” -- Harold Kushner KIND STORIES in CONCERT ABOUT the STORYTELLERS Dan Keding is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, musician, and author who tells world folktales, personal narratives of his Chicago boyhood, ghost stories and superbly crafted original pieces. As a child he learned stories of the old country from his Croatian grandmother. A well-respected ballad singer, Dan accompanies himself on guitar, banjo and spoons. He has performed across the world, including festivals in the UK and Canada. A recording artist and author, Keding’s numerous awards include two Anne Izard Storytelling Choice awards. “For Dan Keding, simplicity and high art go hand-in-hand.”– Illinois Times April Armstrong weaves melodies and words for a refreshing and compelling style of storytelling. Her story programs are fun and interactive. She tells stories for schools, colleges, libraries, museums and festivals. She tells multi-cultural folktales, including African-American and Latino stories. April's stories delight, inform and inspire audiences of all ages. Her storytelling has taken her throughout NYC tri-state area; to Florida, Georgia, and California. She has told stories at the Negril Elementary School in Jamaica and in Bali, Indonesia at the Pelangi International School. April is the recipient of the National Storytellers Networks 2020 J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Award for Storytelling as well as the 2015 Bronx BRIO Award for Storytelling. Her cd has won a Parents Choice Award. Bob Kanegis explores the intersection of myth and traditional folktales with contemporary issues of family, culture, and politics. He shares the view of the Siberian elder who said, "If you don't know the trees you may become lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories, you may become lost in life." Seen this way, storytelling is a 21st century survival skill. Bob performs, and serves as a story coach nationwide, helping people find, craft and tell their most important stories. You can find Bob’s blog at www.storytellerscampfire.com EMCEE Judith Black, one of America’s foremost storytellers, has been retelling history from new perspectives, tickling familial dysfunction, offering ironic explorations of aging, and most recently turning her skills towards our disrupted climate. As a Wheelock College graduate and former teacher she is able to draw storytelling through the educational landscape, showing its profound uses in cognitive, emotional, and social learning. Her work for adults has been featured twelve times at the National Storytelling Festival and on stages from the Montreal Comedy Festival to the Art Museum of Cape Town, SA. She is the winner of the Oracle Award, storytelling’s most coveted laurel, the Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award and many others. Her work in theaters across the nation has received rave reviews COMMUNITY TELLERS Abby Ross (they/them) is a performer, writer, practicing Buddhist and sometime teller of stories in Portland, OR. They had a long left-brain career in foreign policy and national security in New York and Washington, DC, which they largely left behind starting in 2015. Instead, they dipped deeply into performance, training and appearing in more than 30 live stage shows in Washington, DC and Maine from 2008-2020, including Lear in King Lear and Hamm in Beckett’s Endgame. COVID closed stages down; writing and Zoom took its place for them. They write a column for Substack called “Sheathed Sword” https://sheathedsword.substack.com/?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2FSheathed%2520Sword&utm_medium=reader2), which crisscrosses many bridges, from politics and the dreadful international situation, to gender, love, and the impermanence of it all. Jennifer Folayan is of Pueblo, Cherokee, Aztec and Spanish descent. She served on the Board of Directors for the Baltimore American Indian Center. She believes each person has the potential to create a life that is filled with happiness and love. She serves her community through organizing events, graphic design and marketing services, and volunteer work.

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Bridging Racial Divides Through Storytelling

Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/bridging-racial-divides-through-storytelli-tickets-146689 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Bridging Racial Divides through Storytelling- Crafting Tales of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion A workshop with Sue O’Halloran Nov 12th - 1:00PM-5:00PM EST Pay what you are able tuition: $40-$75 To register: https://www.simpletix.com/e/bridging-racial-divides-through-storytelli-tickets-146689 You have something to say in a story, but how do you say it without sounding too pushy or opinionated? In this hands-on workshop, Sue O’Halloran will demonstrate and instruct how she approaches themes of race equity, diversity and inclusion into stories that respect, enlighten, and emotionally move your audience members to take action. You’ll leave with a better understanding of your motives for telling socially relevant stories and be given practical ways to overcome the fears all of us have about taking stands. Join us whether you are a veteran activist or you are still discovering what causes call to you. About the Artist Sue O’Halloran is a writer, story artist, television personality, and keynote speaker whose stories explore the complex issues of social justice. Sue is author of several books and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) curriculums plus producer of multi-cultural shows, video and films including Tribes & Bridges at the Steppenwolf Theatre and More Alike Than Not: Stories of Three Americans – Catholic, Jewish and Muslim. She was the producer/director of the first online story festival in 2012 that reached fifty-two countries. Her Racebridges website showcased 260 video stories by professional story artists telling America’s untold stories and received over half a million visitors each year. The Chicago Reader says O’Halloran “has mastered the Irish art of telling stories that are funny and heart-wrenching at the same time.” Sue’s best endorsements come from her audiences: “Sue opened our minds to a much broader view of why society excludes different groups and energized us to deepen our commitment to transforming our world!” Sue has been a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festivals and as a National Storytelling Network keynote speaker and community-building facilitator. She lives in Lady Lake, Florida, and can be found at: www.susanohalloran.com This event is produced by Healing Story Alliance Inc. www.healingstoryalliance.org

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OARS in the Water: Thankfulness

Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com OARS in the Water Nov 22nd - 7:00pm-8:30pm EST Hosted by Galen Brandt & Elisa Pearmain Theme: Thankfulness Many are the gifts of thankfulness. Perhaps especially at challenging times, thankfulness can reframe our perspective, help soften our griefs and calm our troubled hearts, and remind us of life's precious, daily joys -- the beauty of nature, the kindness of others, the miracle of breath. As the Dalai Lama has said: "If the only prayer we ever say is 'Thank you," that is enough." In this Thanksgiving season, let us gather in community to explore and celebrate thankfulness. OARS in the Water is a facilitated Zoom gathering on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month offered by Healing Story Alliance to create a listening space to share the experiences and stories that have emerged through turbulent times. This is not a therapeutic circle but we do hope it will be healing, supportive and inspiring. Admission is free, although donations are deeply appreciated and help support our programming. Your tax deductible donation can be made here: https://square.link/u/d9xbGN2I We’ll gather via Zoom. Here is the NEW link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 About our Hosts for Nov 22nd Elisa Pearmain has been telling stories professionally since 1987, and always with a penchant for the many healing benefits of story. She is the award-winning author of 52 Wisdom Tales from Around The World, Once Upon a Time: Storytelling to Teach Character and Prevent Bullying, and the double CD Forgiveness: Telling Our Stories in New Ways. Elisa is also a Psychotherapist in private practice, is on the Advisory Board of the Healing Story Alliance and is chair of the HSA Programming Committee. Galen R. Brandt is a writer, songwriter, singer and teller of stories. She has been an award-winning composer for Disney, Hasbro, Lorimer, and Little Golden Books 'n Tapes, a new product marketing expert for Fortune 500 companies and the Franklin Mint. She has been a corporate speechwriter, a conference convener and speaker, a gatherer of indigenous songs, a singer in innumerable wonderful bands nobody's ever heard of, and a cultural journalist for a wide and wild mix of publications. She pioneered the exploration and use of interactive virtual reality technologies as an alternative healing modality in live performance, arts and education, and especially in the area of special needs. She's now writing two musicals -- "The Piglet Opera" and "The Memory Box." Galen serves on the HSA Advisory Committee, the HSA Programming Committee, and is chair of the OARS in the Water program. For the Schedule of upcoming OARS Meetings visit: https://storynet.org/groups/hsa/oars/

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