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OARS in the Water – Signal Fires
Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81580670118?pwd=kluogEmpqp8COl7mWvvDl673CCozLS.1 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org Event Phone: 16517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Wednesday, May 28th 7:00pm-8:30pm EDT Hosted by Mike Seliger & Regina Ress Theme: Signal Fires In difficult times we often call upon the warmth, light, and magic of fire to send out signals of reassurance, remembrance, solidarity, and calls to action. Whether in the warm welcome of a fireplace, the powerful aliveness of a bonfire, or the steady glow of candlelight, fire beckons us to take heart, take action, or simply come together to reflect on the heroic (often unrecognized) efforts of those who have gone before us carrying the hopes and dreams of a world safe and sane for all. To honor this Memorial Day, let us come together around the warm glow of stories and explore signal fires that reaffirm community. Might signal fires today point us towards a better world? OARS in the Water is a facilitated Zoom gathering that meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 7 pm Eastern Time. The Healing Story Alliance’s OARS in the Water offers a community listening space in which to share the experiences and stories that have emerged in turbulent times. OARS co-hosts facilitate the evening and provide participants with a warm welcome and a meaningful theme which we hope will be healing, supportive and inspiring. Format: A typical 90-minute meeting consists of a 20-minute, theme-based opening, followed by 20 minutes in breakout rooms, and then we reassemble for a whole group conversation.
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Shilpa Story Rack Featured at Story Space online Tue 05/20/2025
Link to Event: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Website: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Phone: (857) 998-1592 Event Contact Email: ChadisR3@outlook.com The Story Space Online Every Tuesday from 6:45-9:00 P.M. EDT 04:15 – 06:30 India Standard Time 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.) There is an $8 requested donation Shilpa Story Rack: Shilpa is a storytelling enthusiast who aims to spread and create a positive impact through stories and bring joy through words. She cherishes the oral tradition of storytelling, spreading tales far and wide. She celebrates the tremendous variety of stories, from historical and mythological tales to personal stories, folktales, fairy tales, and stories written by her. She has authored academic books for children and woven fictional tales. She believes that stories have the power to change the world by helping people to find their voice, besides entertaining and enriching. She has performed in various online and in-person story swap programs, storytelling and literary events. Feature’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shilpastoryrack Feature’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087144351429 Feature’s YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@shilpastoryrack 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. 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"
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Katie Green Featured at Story Space online Tue 05/13/2025
Link to Event: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Website: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Phone: (857) 998-1592 Event Contact Email: ChadisR3@outlook.com 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.) There is an $8 requested donation Katie Green: Katie Green tells stories of truth, folk, and faery. Story Space is one of her favorite swaps. After living in the woods of Central Massachusetts for over 40 years, Katie relocated to Dunedin, Florida in 2017. Feature’s website: https://katiegreenstories.com/ Feature’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/people/Katie-Green/100068073349985/ Feature’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCohcqopw8FPxr3nut-2XeBQ 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"
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Stories of People Who Nurture Our Lives, Our World
Link to Event: https://bit.ly/ASSTMay2025Sacred Event Website: https://www.asst.art/event-details/sacred-storytelling-interfaith-story-circle-7 Event Phone: 518-374-0637 Event Contact Email: grsjohnson@aol.com Sacred Storytelling ~ Interfaith Story Circle Come share your story (under 10 minutes) related to the theme, or just come to listen. Either way, you will be warmly welcomed. Free Registration: https://bit.ly/ASSTMay2025Sacred Sponsored by Interfaith Story Circle and ASST (Artists Stand Strong Together)
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Expresso Yourself Coffeehouse – Medfield Climate Week
Event Website: https://www.facebook.com/ExpressoYourselfCoffeehouse Event Phone: 562-243-0191 Event Contact Email: theaiberall@yahoo.com On May 10, Expresso Yourself Coffeehouse is excited to be part of Medfield’s Third Annual Climate Week. The line up for the evening on May 10th includes many well-known Boston poets, including Linda Carney-Goodrich whose work has been displayed on the walls at Boston City Hall as part of the annual Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program. She is the Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Art Center in Hyde Park. Also, Toni Bee who was elected Poet Populist of Cambridge and was Cambridge’s inaugural Poetry Ambassador and was on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club. She has featured at the Lizard Lounge and the Cantab poetry slams. Amy Alvarez, one of 2022’s Best New Poets, has had her work published in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Boston College. Other poets will include Marilyn Goodrich, musician Planet Zuzu, Joe Webster, and others. Competitive poetry adds a whole special energy. You might call this more of a call and response. The poets will explore everything from nature poems to climate activism to environmental justice. Funds will be raised for the Boston chapter of the Sunrise Movement – a movement of young people fighting to stop the climate crisis as they build a base that crosses class and race. They work towards forcing government to end the era of fossil fuel elites and to invest in working class communities. Their work has led to historic youth turnout for elections and they have forced climate into every electoral conversation. Pastries, coffee, and tea will be served. Doors open at Expresso Yourself at 7:00pm at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church at 26 North Street, Medfield, MA. Open mic performers have 3 minutes to share. Original or non-original poetry, stories, performance art, music or songs welcome. Sticking to theme of Environmental Justice is encouraged. Teens and adults welcome. We are a safe space for all. Tickets at the door are $15. Discounted tickets are available at https://bit.ly/4d04RLJ
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Lorraine Darnell Featured at Story Space online Tue 05/06/2025
Link to Event: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Website: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Phone: (857) 998-1592 Event Contact Email: ChadisR3@outlook.com 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.) Lorraine Darnell: Lorraine Darnell brings stories to life, guiding listeners through imaginative and emotional journeys. She shares meaningful tales of change, grief, and resilience, as well as humorous stories about memorable folk characters—all with the power to connect us to each other and to our deeper selves. 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
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The Lusty Month of May
Link to Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lusty-month-of-may-spring-fundraiser-2025-tickets-1296845231999? Event Website: https://www.storytelling.org Event Phone: 16517038191 Event Contact Email: info@storytelling.org The Lusty Month of May A Fundraiser for www.storytelling.org Sunday, May 18th 7:00-8:30 pm CDT Online - Fee $15 Tellers: Margaret Burk, Kelly Campos, Janice Del Negro, Jane Dorfman, Rachel Harding, Megan Wells Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lusty-month-of-may-spring-fundraiser-2025-tickets-1296845231999?
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Traditions and Truth: A Virtual Open Mic
Link to Event: https://storytelling.org/events/new-events/ Event Website: https://storytelling.org/ Event Phone: 16517038191 Event Contact Email: info@storytelling.org Traditions and Truth: A Virtual Open Mic featuring ASE Youth Saturday, May 3, 2025 7:00 - 8:30 pm CDT Online - FREE Donations Welcome Email: jdelnegro@dom.edu for the Zoom link and/or if you are interested in telling a story (7-10 min) in the open mic. Sponsored by Storytelling.org and Dominican University Note: ASE Youth will start at 7:00 pm / Open mic at 7:45 pm
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HSA Kind Stories in Concert
Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-may-4-2025-tickets-212317 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 16517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com KIND STORIES IN CONCERT May 4th 7-8:30 pm EDT Register here to Receive a FREE Kind Stories in Concert Zoom Link: https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-may-4-2025-tickets-212317 Featured Tellers Sufian Zhemukhov is an award-winning author and performer. His solo shows have been featured in the 2023 Teller in Residence season, off-Broadway, and nationwide. NPR presented his show Flirting Like an American is a show about romance, culture, and one immigrant’s story. An international affairs scholar by day, Sufian draws from his personal experience as a first-generation immigrant and political analyst, which might be funnier than it sounds. His storytelling endeavors received the 2020 JJ Reneaux Emerging Artist Award from the National Storytelling Network, and his academic research won the 2019 Best Book Award from the International Studies Association. Cheryl Hamilton is devoted to advancing inclusive communities and storytelling. After twenty years in the nonprofit sector serving immigrants and refugees, she founded Stellar Story Company. The woman-owned business helps people and institutions deliver extraordinary stories and unforgettable events for meaningful change. She is also the creator of the Suitcase Stories® series and former director of curation and coaching for the award-winning national media program Stories from the Stage. Hamilton has coached over 1,500 storytellers from 85 countries. Jasmin Cardenas is a Colombian-American award-winning bilingual storyteller, Theater maker, Actress, Educator and Social Activist. Jasmin Cardenas is a theater maker who uses teatro and play to create spaces where people can connect, tell their story and spark change. A proud daughter of Colombian immigrants, Jasmin was inspired by El Teatro Campesino when she began using Theater of the Oppressed to devise original scenes with working people in the fight for workers’ rights. Learning T.O. with Augusto Boal dramatically altered the course of Jasmin’s life and she will be forever grateful. Together with Chicago’s working people she co-founded WorkersTEATRO in Chicago, IL to amplify wage worker stories by engaging the public. Recognized for her arts & civic engagement work she was awarded a 2020-2022 international LAB Fellowship by The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. She most enjoys discovering new places, ideally by bicycle. Emcee Denise Manning Keyes Page began storytelling when a dear friend in her last months of living with ALS urged her to do so. Denise excavated a story she had written about her mother’s family, edited it so that it was an appropriate oral story and shared it at a community story event. She did so to honor two people she loved. Her mother and her friend. Her mother was deceased at the time, but her friend delighted in the feedback she heard. Ms. Page is convinced this entry into the art of storytelling ignited a passion within her because it began in so much love. She had no intention of telling again. But she has. That was 2019. She tells stories to heal, challenge, inspire, inform and connect. Community Tellers Natalia Tilton envisions a world where no one is disadvantaged due to language barriers. She consults with governments and NGOs to train interpreters who support migrants and refugees to access social and medical services. She passionately advocates for a language access law in Germany, aiming to ensure free interpreting services for all citizens. This marks her debut as a storyteller. Nazia Jamal is a resident of Boston who has recently fallen in love with storytelling. Nazia resettled to the United States in January 2024 after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, where she worked as a teacher, inspiring young women to pursue education. Today, Nazia teaches full-time in a language school and speaks as often as possible with her students and family back in Afghanistan
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Good Liars Club XV
Link to Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdO-tpjosG9ZKoEDisxu-20QdUAZNmyCm Event Website: www.anne-norm.com Event Phone: 5038302398 Event Contact Email: anneandnormstorytellers@gmail.com Anne & Norm present: The Good Liars Club XV Tues May 6 4p ADT/ 5 PDT/ 6 MDT/ 7 CDT/ 8 EDT Live on Zoom Ingrid Nixon, Eva Abrams, Alton Chung, Roopa Mohan & Anne Rutherford stretch the truth. With MC Norm Brecke haiku’ing up the fun. Free Registration & Pay the Tellers at https://www.anne-norm.com Donors receive a link to watch a video of the show on demand.
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