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Rico Rodriguez Featured at Story Space online Tue 03/18/2025
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.) Rico Rodriguez: Rico Rodriguez is an award-winning storyteller, musician, drag performer, educator and Union Activist. Drawing from his Latinx and queer identities, in this performance will tell us some of his personal stories and folktales which are infused with themes of equity and social change. He promises to captivate us by his masterful use of humour, which lightens even the most painful topics, to make complex issues accessible and engaging. Rico will also tell us about his workshops on integrating storytelling into educational settings, community outreach, and health promotion. He has shared his work in schools, theatres, libraries, festivals, pubs, and conferences across Canada and the U.S., and has been featured on CBC Radio and NPR. In 1997, Rico founded “Queers in Your Ears,” a 2SLGBTQI+ storytelling event that is now in its 28th year. His projects have received support from the Canada Council, Toronto Arts Council, and Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Raptors Foundation and others. Rico Rodriguez believes storytelling unites people by conveying universal values. “Storytelling is a powerful tool to foster understanding, respect, and appreciation, celebrating both our shared humanity and our differences.” Feature’s website: https://storytellingtoronto.org/user/rico-rodriguez/ Feature’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RicoRodriguezStoryteller Queers in Your Ears Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/QueersinYourEars/ 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 Subscribe to Weekly Newsletter There is an $8 requested donation
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HSA Climate Chaos: Fire, Flood, Drought! What’s it all about?
Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/climate-chaos-fires-floods-drought-what-s-tickets-208961 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Climate Chaos: Fire, Flood, Drought! What's it all about? Presented by: Healing Story Alliance Sunday, March 23rd 7:00-8:30 pm EDT A WORKSHOP ON ZOOM To Register: https://www.simpletix.com/e/climate-chaos-fires-floods-drought-what-s-tickets-208961 As an extension of the Climate Stories event with Bill McKibben (March 16th), this workshop will help you find ways to transform your factual knowledge into powerful and engaging stories. These kinds of tales can be used to educate and are useful for public speech of all kinds including: Supporting specific legislation and issues at local, state and national hearings Advocating politically at the local, state and national level Discussing stewardship in your house of prayer Speaking in public on poignant issues at Town Meetings Conversing with others in your organizational circles such as Garden Clubs, League of Women Voters, Young Republicans, Building and Trade, Chamber of Commerce…) · Talking around the dinner table (and more)
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The Forest for Opening Hearts
Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81580670118?pwd=kluogEmpqp8COl7mWvvDl673CCozLS.1 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/oars-themes-2022/oars/ Event Contact Email: jimbrule@gmail.com Hosted by Jim Brulé & Dee Palanisamy Discover the wisdom of the woods in “The Forest for Opening Hearts.” Explore themes of generosity and learn from nature’s quiet strength, fostering a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us. Join us for an inspiring experience of storytelling, meditation, and community.
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Legacy Storytelling
Link to Event: https://tinyurl.com/LegacyStories Event Website: https://transformationalstorytelling.org/event/legacy-storytelling-2/2025-04-09/ Event Contact Email: jimbrule@gmail.com Legacy Storytelling: Discovering and Sharing What Matters Most This two-part online workshop will guide you on a journey of self-discovery and inspiration. It meets on two Wednesdays: April 9 and April 16. (Times are designed for India, Singapore, and Australia). Join Jim Brulé in this engaging and interactive program, where you will: Identify Your Core Values: Through creative exercises, uncover the principles that guide your life and decisions. Recall Meaningful Experiences: Connect with personal anecdotes that exemplify your values, bringing them to life. Retell Inspiring Stories: Collaboratively develop and refine your anecdotes into compelling narratives that resonate. Whether you’re seeking personal growth, interested in stories that will carry your legacy, or looking to inspire others, this workshop offers the tools and insights to transform your values into powerful stories. Come experience the deep satisfaction and joy of discovering and sharing what really matters to you! Register at https://tinyurl.com/LegacyStories
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Legacy Storytelling
Link to Event: https://bit.ly/LegacyStories-US Event Website: https://transformationalstorytelling.org/event/legacy-storytelling-3/2025-04-28/ Event Contact Email: jimbrule@gmail.com Legacy Storytelling: Discovering and Sharing What Matters Most This two-part online workshop will guide you on a journey of self-discovery and inspiration. It meets on two Mondays: April 28 and May 5. (Times are designed for the US). Join Jim Brulé in this engaging and interactive program, where you will: Identify Your Core Values: Through creative exercises, uncover the principles that guide your life and decisions. Recall Meaningful Experiences: Connect with personal anecdotes that exemplify your values, bringing them to life. Retell Inspiring Stories: Collaboratively develop and refine your anecdotes into compelling narratives that resonate. Whether you’re seeking personal growth, interested in stories that will carry your legacy, or looking to inspire others, this workshop offers the tools and insights to transform your values into powerful stories. Come experience the deep satisfaction and joy of discovering and sharing what really matters to you! Register at https://bit.ly/LegacyStories-US
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North Carolina Storytelling Guild Spring Retreat
Event Website: https://www.ncstoryguild.org/event-6079406 Event Phone: Event Contact Email: diannehackworth@icloud.com North Carolina Storytelling Guild Spring Retreat with Megan Wells April 4-6, 2025 Imagine this...you have a story, yearning to come to life, grow, and bloom in the world. So you and your story escape from daily distractions to a quiet lodge on top of a beautiful NC mountain. Then with care and humility, you tell your story to one of the most sought-after storytelling coaches in the country, surrounded by a circle of Delighted Listeners - your storyteller friends eager to learn with you - as your coach lovingly helps you polish your little gem. And in the process, we all learn together and enjoy the unique alchemy of storytelling. If this appeals to you, REGISTER now. Spaces are limited and filling fast. The registration deadline is March 15! Registration Link: https://www.ncstoryguild.org/event-6079406 Special format: 20 participants, 1 leader Ten who sign up to bring a story for a one-on-one coaching session with Megan observed by the whole group. This story also performed at Sunday morning OLIO. The registration fee for a coaching spot is $400. 10 Delighted Listener Learner spots. The registration fee for a Listener Learner spot is $275. Registration fee includes lodging, meals, snacks, & learning together. Sunday morning Olio performance of all ten stories. Saturday evening fellowship time for fun, healing, and singing with our Tribe. Contact Dianne Hackworth for more details. diannehackworth@icloud.com
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MoonShine Stories: Tales for a Full Moon
Link to Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moonshine-stories-sap-moon-tickets-1270753952279 Event Website: https://storytelling.org/events/new-events/ Event Phone: 16517038191 Event Contact Email: folktalesrising@gmail.com MoonShine Stories: Tales for a Full Moon Sap Moon with Steve Tate and Andy Russell Friday, March 14, 2025 at 9:00-10:30 pm CDT Online - Ticket $22.50 Register for Ticket and Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moonshine-stories-sap-moon-tickets-1270753952279
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OARS in the Water: The Forest for Opening Hearts
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 OARS in the Water Wednesday, March 12th 7:00pm-8:30pm EDT Hosted by Jim Brulé & Dee Palanisamy Theme: The Forest for Opening Hearts Discover the wisdom of the woods in “The Forest for Opening Hearts.” Explore themes of generosity and learn from nature’s quiet strength, fostering a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us. Join us for an inspiring experience of storytelling, meditation, and community. WE HAVE A NEW ZOOM LINK FOR OARS! https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81580670118?pwd=kluogEmpqp8COl7mWvvDl673CCozLS.1 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. 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 About our Hosts for March 12th Jim Brulé is a transformational storyteller, end-of-life doula, mentor, and educator. Drawing on a blend of cultural, spiritual, and academic experiences, his stories and workshops explore themes of healing, multicultural wisdom, and end-of-life support. For over a decade, his NSN-accredited Transformational Storytelling school has trained spiritual storytellers from a variety of traditions. Known for his collaborative spirit, Jim has co-developed and led dozens of workshops with storytellers worldwide. Co-authored with Rebecca Lemaire, his book “Stories of the Heart” presents 18 global tales for navigating dying and living. Dee Palanisamy (Durgah Devi) is a multicultural storyteller based in Melbourne, Australia. She weaves her Singaporean-Tamil background in telling Asian folktales and stories to audiences around the world. Dee loves all things stories and founded Deelightfultales, where she uses stories for performances, training, education and personal development. She also works closely with the Federation of Asian Storytellers, Generation Women Australia (personal storytelling) and is the current secretary of the Australian Storytelling Guild, NSW. Dee is grateful to connect with people and different communities through storytelling. Jim and Dee met in Marrakech at the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival earlier this year and discovered they were kindred spirits.
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Kind Stories in Concert with Hears Crow
Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-april-6-2025-tickets-206898 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 16517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Kind Stories in Concert Sunday, April 6 7:00pm-8:30pm EDT Emcee: Hears Crow Register to Receive a FREE Kind Stories in Concert Zoom Link Click to Register: https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-april-6-2025-tickets-206898 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: April 6, 2025 Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm EDT (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 ABOUT the STORYTELLERS Featured Tellers Kim Weitkamp is an award-winning storyteller, author, singer-songwriter and humorist. After using applied storytelling in her work with adjudicated and at risk youth for 12 years, Kim took a turn onto a different avenue of story and song which led her down the path of full time touring for the last 15 years where she gathered an armload of awards. She performs regularly at festivals and theaters around the country, has written a well-received folk operetta and has been a guest editor and contributor for various publications. She has 8 award winning albums, has produced and/or designed 32 albums for other performers and has hosted a morning show for a DOVE Award winning radio network. She is ranked as one of the top 20 business coaches in the Columbus, Ohio region by Influence Digest, teaching the power of story to help grow organizations and build teams. Jim May is an EMMY Award-winning storyteller and prize-winning author. A full-time storyteller since 1986 presenting at schools, festivals and other venues throughout the US, Great Britain, Ireland, Mexico and Canada. His latest collection of stories, Trail Guide For a Crooked Heart, won an “Anne Izard Best Book Award” from the Westchester, NY Library Foundation. A teacher by training and by heart he has led workshops throughout the US, Canada, and an annual weeklong retreat in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico. He and his artist wife, Nan Seidler, live in an 1840’s circa dairy barn in Harvard, Illinois, on a conservation easement along the Nippersink Creek, where he leads Summer Solstice Storytelling workshops. Raffini has been involved in the Theater Arts for more than three decades. Her work began as an actress at the Langston Hughes Center in Providence RI and at the Rites and Reason Theatre where she performed for more than ten years. She also toured with Theatre for Emily, Looking Glass Theater and became a member of Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS). Along with George Bass she co-wrote a scene in the original script “Armed with Cruel Hate” that toured the New England region. She also wrote a play that premiered on the Rites and Reason stage. Her personal shows/scripts have been performed at Rhode Island College, URI, Black Rep., LaSalle University and Temple University in Philadelphia. Raffini is also a mentor for young black tellers through RIBS. Emcee Hears Crow (Nootauau Kaukontuoh), “she hears the crow”, is a woman of the Eastern Woodlands. She lives her life in the tradition of the Nanhigganêuck, the people known today as the Narragansett. She is a Storyteller of Longhouse Tales, told in many different ways including Native Sign Language, call and response as well as other traditional styles. She has twice been awarded publishing contracts for her book of poetry and is currently completing a Native children’s novel. She brings to life the oral tradition at schools, community centers, Indigenous gatherings and wherever the stories lead her. Community Tellers Agent Poems is16 years old and has been writing poetry for two years. He uses poetry as a way to spread love and lessons of life. John Hamilton was born into a spirited Irish-American family of singers and storytellers. He studied philosophy and music as an undergraduate, and played music professionally for fifteen years until a debilitating onset of panic disorder abruptly halted his career. He entered the business world where he thrived as a creative director in advertising. Despite professional success, Hamilton’s persistent quest for the transcendent led him to seminary and, eventually, to twenty-five years of parish work as a pastor. His most recent book, “Honest To God” chronicles his loss of connection to the transcendent and his walk into the wilderness to search for it again. He maintains an active presence on Substack, has 25,000 followers on Spotify, and another book, “The Weight of Snow” in the works for 2026.
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Anabelle Castaño Featured at Story Space online Tue 03/11/2025
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.) Anabelle Castaño: Anabelle Castaño’s workshop and storytelling sessions bring to life traditional folktales and fairy tales, as well as oral histories of South America; showing how they mirror historical situations of colonialism, conflict, exploitation, and the abuse of power. Feature’s website: https://www.anacas.com.ar/. https://www.anacas.com.ar/ Feature’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anamusea/?hl=en Feature’s International Storytelling Network: https://www.cuentacuentos.eu/narradores/miembros/argentina/AnabelleCastano.htm 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
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