Set the Scene Storytelling Workshop

Link to Event: https://bettersaidthandone.org/event/story-scene-setting-workshop/ Join Better Said Than Done storytelling online this Spring for a series of storytelling workshops to grow your creative spirit. Workshops led by Better Said Than Done Executive Director Jessica Piscitelli Robinson. June 3 Storytelling Workshop: Setting the Scene Where are we, where did we come from, what are we carrying and who are we meeting? Learn to bring the audience with you as you step into a scene. Each workshop will start with a lesson, followed by time for attendees to write and work on a story, and end with story sharing. All workshops will be recorded and all registrants will receive the recording, as well as course materials, for the session they registered for. Each week starts at 7:00pm Eastern and will end at approximately 8:45 to 9:00pm. The zoom link to attend will be sent on the morning of that day’s workshop, and the recording will be sent within 48 hours. Workshop led by Jessica Piscitelli Robinson. Jessica Robinson is the Founding Executive Director of Better Said Than Done, the organization behind the Women’s Storytelling Festival. In addition to producing the WSF and storytelling shows in Northern Virginia, Jessica has performed at the Exchange Place at National Storytelling Festival, and the Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival, on WGBH’s “Stories from the Stage,” and the Risk! Podcast, and was featured in the Florida, Good Liars Club, Hampton, and Stone Soup Storytelling Festivals. Jessica is a 2023 ORACLE Award recipient from the National Storytelling Network. Jessica has taught storytelling workshops for Story Crossroads, The Story Center, and community and business organizations such as The Brookings Institution, George Mason University’s Athletics Department, George Washington University’s School of Business, and The World Bank. Jessica’s writing has been published a bunch of places and she is the author of the memoir-in-stories, Stages: My Life in Stories (Tucker DS Press).

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Story Structure and Plot Workshop

Link to Event: https://bettersaidthandone.org/event/story-structure-and-plot-workshop/ Join Better Said Than Done storytelling online this Spring for a series of storytelling workshops to seed and nourish and grow your creative spirit. May 20 Workshop: Story Structure and Plot You’ve got a story, or the idea for one. Now, how does the plot unfold? This workshop focuses on plot points and structure – the steps of putting together a good story and when and why to change the way you structure it. Workshop led by Jessica Piscitelli Robinson. Jessica Robinson is the Founding Executive Director of Better Said Than Done, the organization behind the Women’s Storytelling Festival. In addition to producing the WSF and storytelling shows in Northern Virginia, Jessica has performed at the Exchange Place at National Storytelling Festival, and the Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival, on WGBH’s “Stories from the Stage,” and the Risk! Podcast, and was featured in the Florida, Good Liars Club, Hampton, and Stone Soup Storytelling Festivals. Jessica is a 2023 ORACLE Award recipient from the National Storytelling Network. Jessica has taught storytelling workshops for Story Crossroads, The Story Center, and community and business organizations such as The Brookings Institution, George Mason University’s Athletics Department, George Washington University’s School of Business, and The World Bank. Jessica’s writing has been published a bunch of places and she is the author of the memoir-in-stories, Stages: My Life in Stories (Tucker DS Press).

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Tim Greenwood Featured at Story Space online

Link to Event: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Website: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Phone: (857) 998-1592 Event Contact Email: hosting@StorySpace.org The Story Space Online Every Tuesday from 6:45-9:00 P.M. EDT Please Note: We are now on EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), 4 hours behind GMT, or UTC-4. To attend via Zoom©: Go to http://www.StorySpace.org In the banner click on “Meeting Invitation” (a new invitation will be posted every Tuesday by 6:00 PM. Otherwise, there will be a placeholder message.) Tim Greenwood: During the strange and uncertain days of the pandemic, life slowed down in ways that brought both hardship and unexpected adventures. Tim shares a series of personal stories from that time, with the realization that even during difficult times, there still can be absurd and memorable moments. Feature on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiw8FUtHoZ0 Storytelling of all types and styles, in a friendly, cooperative venue where listeners and tellers and newcomers alike get full attention. There are no content restrictions, other than prohibiting hate speech. Try out a new story, spin an old favorite, or come to listen. No Topics. No Competition. No Judging. Just Stories… In the spirit of Brother Blue. The Story Space runs every Tuesday Night from 6:45 – 9:00 PM EDT Signup for Open Telling (8-minute slots) starts at 6:45 P.M. EDT. Open Telling starts at 7:00 P.M. EDT sharp. Followed by the Featured Teller at around 8:00 P.M. EDT. "Programs Subject to Change" The Story Space online --- There is an $8 requested donation at http://www.storyspace.org/Kitty.asp

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Myths Retold: The Cradle of Civilization (Sumer)

Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/myths-retold-the-cradle-of-civilization-su-tickets-270185 Event Contact Email: laura@laurapacker.com You've heard of Gilgamesh and Inanna. You may have learned about the birth of civilization in school, but the myths of ancient Sumer, the first known human civilization found in the cradle of Mesopotamia, are so much more. Love, friendship, envy, grief. Every human emotion is found on those fragmentary stone tablets, scratched with cuneiform. New stories are Join storyteller Laura Packer for an online celebration of Sumerian myth, from the familiar to a newly translated story, told again for possibly the first time in over 4,000 years. Laura will bring these stories to life in a live storytelling set, just as they were shared millennia ago. Create and destroy the world with Nintur and Enlil. Travel with Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Descend with Inanna. Mourn with Erishkigal. And meet a newly discovered god and his fox, whose story has only just been uncovered CW: These are ancient stories with human hearts, they hold grief, loss, and wonder in equal measure. Can't make it live? The recording is available for two weeks so you won't be left behind.

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Crafting and telling difficult stories: A workshop for storytellers, writers and others

Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/crafting-and-telling-difficult-stories-a-w-tickets-263721 Event Contact Email: laura@laurapacker.com Everyone needs to know they are not alone in their experiences. Whether through personal narrative, traditional material, games, or fiction, shared stories help us talk about difficult things so we can recognize common ground, find more healing, and help others. Sharing these stories requires special attention to the needs of both the story crafter and the audience. This three-session Zoom workshop (May 14, 21, and 28) will help you shape your difficult story so you can share it safely, the audience can experience it deeply without worrying about you or themselves, and will give you the tools you need for a crafted, powerful story. If participants choose, we will have a recital so they can share their stories with others.

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HSA When Storytellers Write about Healing

Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/when-storytellers-write-about-healing-an-i-tickets-264024 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 16517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Healing Story Alliance presents "When Storytellers Write about Healing" with Susan Perrow, Australian Author An interview with Susan Perrow about her book "Stories to Light the Night" Facilitator: Elisa Pearmain Sunday, April 26, 2026 7:00-8:30 pm EDT Tickets: $16.50 Register: https://www.simpletix.com/e/when-storytellers-write-about-healing-an-i-tickets-264024 Join us for the next event in Healing Story Alliance’s series where authors are interviewed about their creative writing processes and the healing power of storytelling. Storytelling, unique among all narrative arts, engages listeners in a profound way, deepening our understanding of what healing means and how it functions. In this session, Elisa Pearmain will interview Susan Perrow about her book Stories to Light the Night, a collection of over 90 therapeutic stories designed to help children, families, and communities navigate grief, loss, and separation, covering topics like the death of a loved one, loss of a pet, divorce, and environmental grief. Published in 2021, the book uses storytelling as a tool for healing, offering a diverse selection of tales from various cultures to provide comfort and help reframe difficult experiences. Audience participation is encouraged, with opportunities to ask questions and share observations inspired by Susan’s work and the interview. This event benefits The Healing Storytelling Alliance, dedicated to promoting healing through the art of storytelling. About the Author Susan Perrow, M.Ed.Hons is an Australian author who works with ‘story medicine’. She writes, collects and documents stories that offer a therapeutic journey – a positive, imaginative way of addressing challenging behaviors and traumatic situations for all ages, including environmental grief and loss. In 2000 she developed a 150-hour unit on Storytelling for Southern Cross University and completed her Masters Research on Storytelling in Cross-cultural Situations. From 2001 to 2003, as the coordinator of a pilot program funded by the Australian Government under its “Developing Stronger Families” Project, she developed courses and resources for Parent Support, specializing in therapeutic storytelling. For the past 20 years she has travelled internationally giving keynotes and therapeutic story-writing seminars for teachers, therapists and parents world-wide, and now runs trainings online. Her work has led to the publication of four resource books, all by Hawthorn Press U.K., and now in 14 languages – ‘Healing Stories for Challenging Behavior’, ‘Therapeutic Storytelling: 101 Healing Stories for Children’, ‘An A-Z Collection of Behavior Tales’ and ‘Stories to Light the Night: A Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities’. In 2023 she launched her first audio APP for smartphones and tablets. Entitled ‘Rainbowtales.app’ it offers 101 therapeutic stories told by professional narrators across six categories. A mother of three sons, and a grandmother of six, her home is in Lennox Head on the East Coast of Australia. Websites: www.susanperrow.com / https://rainbowtales.app/ About the Interviewer 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.

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