Freestylin’ Dunbar!

Link to Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUofuqsrzkiEtdhdWB5PvJ0P8KfaHGHVn0x Event Website: www.LoveOfDunbar.com Event Phone: 484-885-0153 Event Contact Email: LoveOfDunbar@gmail.com A FREE WEEKLY meetup on Zoom on the spoken word prose of iconic author and poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). offered for English Language Arts educators to creatively teach, teaching storytelling artists to perform, students and adventurers of literature to explore Dunbar's life, times and poetry. Find out why he's worthy of a Pulitzer Prize, considered the father of the spoken word movement and America's Shakespeare. You'll learn techniques on delivering, reading, presenting and teaching Dunbar's northern and southern dialect spoken words. Based on the workshop, A Poetic Approach To Storytelling on p. 289 of Literacy Development in The Storytelling Classroom published in Libraries Unlimited, edited by Sherry Norfolk, Jane Stenson, and Diane Williams. Discover and bring a poems of your choice @ www.PaulLaurenceDunbar.org

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HSA OARS in the Water

Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/oars-themes-2022/oars/ Event Phone: 651-703-8191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com HSA presents OARS in the Water hosted by Heather Forest & Megan Wells Working, creating, designing, and envisioning in harmony with others is an empowering activity which amplifies each individual’s efforts. Join us as we explore the myriad ways we work and create together to accomplish that which cannot be done alone. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” ~Aristotle November 27, 2025 at 7:00 pm EST Online - click Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 About our Hosts for November 27th Heather Forest, PhD, is an award-winning storyteller, author, musician, and organic farmer. A pioneer in the American storytelling renaissance, she has appeared in theatres, schools, literature conferences, and major storytelling festivals throughout the United States and abroad since 1975. A modern-day bard, her dynamic fusion of original music, poetry, and the sung and spoken word brings multicultural folktales to life in the imagination of her listeners. She is a recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award presented by the National Storytelling Network for her performance skill and the 2021 Talking Leaves Award for her contributions to storytelling literature. An author of seven folktale recordings and ten folktale books, her published work has earned an American Library Association Notable Record Award, two Parent’s Choice Gold Awards, and five Storytelling World Honor Awards. Her musical monologue EARTHSONG won Best Composer in the 2021 United Solo Festival off Broadway. She views storytelling as both a fine art and a powerful tool for positive social change. Megan Wells is an award-winning and nationally respected storyteller, historical impersonator, actress and theater director. This extensive experience has allowed Megan to develop a vast repertoire of engaging stories, including traditional tales, multicultural myths, historical retellings, literary and personal stories. She holds an ORACLE Award with the National Storytelling Network as a Circle of Excellence recipient. Her theater awards include a Jeff Award for Direction as well as a 2020 nomination for solo performance. As the writer and storyteller for the Chicago Symphony’s Once Upon a Symphony program, Megan helped create an outreach program connecting children with classical music which included a fresh version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling performed with Yo-Yo Ma. Regardless of the story she’s telling, the character she is portraying or the play she is directing, Megan’s passion and energy bring narrative to life in ways that deeply inspire our human potential. Megan is also a sought-after coach; teaching story, coaching storytellers and helping individuals navigate the deep stories of their inner lives. Her website is www.meganwells.com

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Goldie Spencer 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: ChadisR3@outlook.com Goldie Spencer Featured at Story Space online Tue 11/26/2024 The Story Space Online Every Tuesday from 6:45-9:00 P.M. EST We are now on EST (Eastern Standard Time), 5 hours behind GMT, or UTC-5. 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.) Goldie Spencer: Goldie Spencer has been telling her stories for nearly 30 years in many venues in Canada. After retirement she taught “The Art of Storytelling” at Ryerson University (now TMU). She invites you to “Come listen to my folktales and personal stories of love and death and even happy endings.” Feature’s website: https://www.storytellers-conteurs.ca/en/storytellers-directory/Goldie-Spencer.html 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 EST 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. "Programs Subject to Change" The Story Space online

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NEST New Member Showcase

Link to Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/come-together-northeast-storytellings-2024-new-member-showcase-tickets-1070778801219?aff=oddtdtcreator Join us for the NEST New Member Showcase: COME TOGETHER! Tomorrow night we will welcome these new members and get a chance to hear them tell. Please join us to show your support. This event is free, but pre-registration is required.

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Katherine Eid Wild 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: ChadisR3@outlook.com The Story Space Online Every Tuesday from 6:45-9:00 P.M. EST We are now on EST (Eastern Standard Time), 5 hours behind GMT, or UTC-5. 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.) Katherine Eid Wild: Katherine Eid Wild was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, by her American mother and Lebanese father. At 18, she visited Lebanon for the first time, where she met her grandmother and connected with the place she had known only through her father's stories. At 20, Katherine set off on a solo adventure with a one-way ticket to Hawaii, where she began writing. In 2022, at 33, she earned her BA in Cinematic Arts and New Media from Maharishi International University. Her work is shaped by the practice of dreamwork, time spent in nature, and the rich tapestry of her family’s stories. Known for her poetic style and ‘stories within stories,’ Katherine’s intergenerational work invites audiences right into the heart of her inner world. Her film, A Spring for Ali, has been screened at festivals from the Arab American Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, to Beirut, Lebanon. Recently, she was named a finalist in the International Storytelling Festival story slam. Katherine’s love of travel has taken her all over the world, but nowhere does she feel more enlivened than in Lebanon, where she now spends time regularly. She currently resides in Fairfield, Iowa, with her husband, where she sings, writes, and takes to the stage at every opportunity. Feature’s website: https://wildstorytelling.com/ Feature’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/katherine.eid.5/ Feature’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@katherineeidwild Feature’s Instagram Channel: https://www.instagram.com/katherineeidwild/ 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 EST 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. "Programs Subject to Change" The Story Space online There is an $8 requested donation

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Freestylin’ Dunbar!

Link to Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUofuqsrzkiEtdhdWB5PvJ0P8KfaHGHVn0x Event Website: www.LoveOfDunbar.com Event Phone: 484-885-0153 Event Contact Email: LoveOfDunbar@gmail.com A FREE WEEKLY meetup on Zoom on the spoken word prose of iconic author and poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). offered for English Language Arts educators to creatively teach, teaching storytelling artists to perform, students and adventurers of literature to explore Dunbar's life, times and poetry. Find out why he's worthy of a Pulitzer Prize, considered the father of the spoken word movement and America's Shakespeare. You'll learn techniques on delivering, reading, presenting and teaching Dunbar's northern and southern dialect spoken words. Based on the workshop, A Poetic Approach To Storytelling on p. 289 of Literacy Development in The Storytelling Classroom published in Libraries Unlimited, edited by Sherry Norfolk, Jane Stenson, and Diane Williams. Discover and bring a poems of your choice @ www.PaulLaurenceDunbar.org

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HSA OARS in the Water

Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/oars-themes-2022/oars/ Event Phone: 651-703-8191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com OARS in the Water November 13. .2024 7:00pm-8:30pm EST Hosted by Jim Brulé and Hears Crow Theme: Legacy Storytelling Stories are the way we carry the legacy of our family throughout time. Telling and retelling those stories with an ear and heart for the future enables everyone to actively celebrate each other’s lives past, present, and future. Join us as we discover new ways of uncovering - and sharing - the stories of our lives that matter to us. 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. We’ll gather via Zoom. Here is the NEW link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 About our Hosts for Nov. 13th Jim Brulé is a transformational storyteller, death doula, and teacher with diverse cultural, spiritual, and academic backgrounds. Jim’s workshops address healing, multicultural wisdom, and end-of-life themes. Known for his collaboration, he has developed and offered dozens of workshops with storytellers from around the world, including Hears Crow, with whom he collaborates closely. Co-authored with Rebecca Lemaire, his book “Stories of the Heart” presents 18 global tales for navigating dying and living. Hears Crow (Nootauau Kaukôntuah) lives in the tradition of the Narragansett. As an educator, workshop leader, published poet, and facilitator of indigenous circles, she weaves teachings from the Longhouse, Indigenous ways, and Transformational Stories. She says, "Living in two worlds has offered me the opportunity to speak and listen with an open heart.

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Thea Iberall 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: ChadisR3@outlook.com Thea Iberall Featured at Story Space online Tue 11/12/2024 The Story Space Online Every Tuesday from 6:45-9:00 P.M. EST We are now on EST (Eastern Standard Time), 5 hours behind GMT, or UTC-5. 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.) To join Zoom meeting: Topic:The Story Space's Zoom Meeting #000 - Featuring [Feature] Time: Time: mm dd, yyyy 06:45 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada, UTC-4) To Join the Zoom Meeting Click On: [URL] Meeting ID: 000 0000 0000 & Passcode: 000000 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd4gCQRkAy Eastern Canada: +1 438 809 7799 There is an $8 requested donation Thea Iberall: Thea Iberall has been called ‘a shimmering bridge between heart and mind.’ She has been doing performance poetry and storytelling since 1998, representing LA at the National Poetry Slams. An inductee into the International Educators Hall of Fame, she has featured at almost 100 venues including StorySpace, Open Spirit, Amazing Things Art Center, Limmud, Worcester State University, and Berkshire Festival of Women’s Writers. OC Weekly said Iberall “tells narrative stories using simple words that mask hidden layers of meaning and emotion”. “Thea is the dream house at the four-way intersection of storytelling, poetry, science and spirit… she breathes grace into every evocative piece that leaps to life from her heart and mind to yours." Feature’s website: https://www.theaiberall.com/ Feature’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/iberall/ Feature’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theaiberallauthor/ We Did It For You! Women's Journey Through History: https://www.wediditforyou.org/ 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 EST 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. "Programs Subject to Change" The Story Space online There is an $8 requested donation

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Mike Cohen Featured at The Story Space online, Tue 11/05/2024

Link to Event: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Website: http://www.StorySpace.org Event Phone: (857) 998-1592 Event Contact Email: ChadisR3@outlook.com Mike Cohen Featured at The Story Space online, Tue 11/05/2024 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 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: http://tinyurl.com/StorySpaceSubscribe02a 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). MIKE COHEN: MIKE COHEN celebrates his Birthday with some favorite stories from deep in his awe-inspiring repertoire. He'll take us through Time and Space, so sit back and enjoy what Ruth Edmonds Hill said was "The most incredible imagination of anyone I've ever known." 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 listeners and tellers and newcomers alike get 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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Full Moon Historical Story Swap (ZOOM)

Link to Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85496933629?pwd=cmFucU5Ea2VXQUxrTXltU2ZkTVhVQT09 Event Website: https://www.suncoaststorytellers.org/nov-2024/ Event Contact Email: jimkissane@suncoaststorytellers.org Event Description: Friday, November 15, 2024 FULL MOON Story Swap ZOOM https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85496933629?pwd=cmFucU5Ea2VXQUxrTXltU2ZkTVhVQT09

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