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Awesome Autumn with Jackson Gillman
Event Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=973402951489735&set=a.227948909368480 Event Phone: 508-322-0847 Event Contact Email: jxsong@comcast.net Event Description: Jackson Gillman’s heartwarming show celebrates the beauties of the season. Apples, pumpkins, harvest, a nip in the air, flaming maples, leaf piles, migrating geese… This is the final show in the quarterly series of "Celebrate the Seasons in Song & Story. This free program is supported by a grant from the Wareham Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
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POP UP GHOST STORIES – when the doors to the other world open
Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pop-up-ghost-stories-when-the-doors-to-the-other-world-open-registration-1054419981549?aff=oddtdtcreator POP UP GHOST STORIES - when the doors to the other world open Five storytellers LAURA SIMMS, NANCY WANG, SIMON BROOKS. ROBIN BADY AND LYN FORD reveal true life encounters with other beings and ghosts Refund Policy No Refunds About this event This is a SUDDEN STORY project .. Please join us .. rivetting, guaranteed spooky, uplifting, and authentic true stories.. The event is more conversation then performance and listeners are invited to share your own experiences. with music and poetry.
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Tellabration 2024!
Link to Event: http://nhstorytelling.org/tellabration Event Website: http://nhstorytelling.org Event Phone: (603) 491-1451 Event Contact Email: nhstorytellingalliance@gmail.com TELLABRATION!TM 2024 Horseshoe Pond Place Senior Center Community Room 26 Commercial Street, Concord, NH 03301 Saturday November 9 1 pm – 3 pm ALL ARE WELCOME! Produced by the Central NH Storytelling Guild Tellabration!TM is a trademarked program of the National Storytelling Network Stories for adults & older children Free to all, light refreshments provided Donations of cash & cans accepted for The Friendly Kitchen
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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) 998-15692 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: 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 EDT. 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). Laura Packer: Laura will share seasonal tales true and traditional, with maybe a personal story or two added in for fun. Be ready to ooo, ahhh, and maybe even shiver. Laura Packer has been telling stories most of her life, told on the stage for the first time at StorySpace, and is now a working artist who performs, teaches, and coaches around the world. Laura Packer is inducted into the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence Feature’s website: http://www.laurapacker.com/ Feature’s Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/laurapacker There is an $8 requested donation. The Story Space runs every Tuesday Night from 6:45 – 9:00 P.M. EDT. 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. EDT. Open Telling starts at 7:00 P.M. EDT sharp. Followed by the Featured Teller at around 8:00 P.M. EDT. To learn more, or be on our mailing list: info@StorySpace.Org "Programs Subject to Change" www.StorySpace.org
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Be Afraid: Stories from the Dark
Link to Event: https://bettersaidthandone.org/event/be-afraid-of-stories/ Event Description: On Thursday, October 17, 2024, Better Said Than Done will bring terror into the hearts of those willing to invite us there. Join storytellers Lyn Ford, Amanda Lawrence, Teri Lott, Jessica Robinson, and Terrell Shaw on zoom, for a night of terrifying tales – if you dare! https://bettersaidthandone.org/event/be-afraid-of-stories/ $15 Suggested/ $5 Minimum Proceeds will be divided among the storytellers. This show will be recorded. All ticket holders receive a zoom link to watch live and then a Youtube link after to watch the recording. This is a zoom meeting so you will have the option to be seen. However, you can choose to keep your camera off to watch if you prefer. You should receive the Zoom login information shortly after registering. Check the email you use on Paypal and check your junk folder if you do NOT see it. Try to login a few minutes before show time to make sure you can gain entry. Contact us at stories (at) bettersaidthandone (dot) com if you still do not see the email. PLEASE NOTE: We cannot respond to emails during the show. PLEASE double check you have the login prior to when the show is starting! As people can watch the recording for up to one month after, ticket sales close the Sunday after. Your receipt reflects the date ticket sales close. The link to watch the show has the date and time of the show on it.
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Her Voice Returns: Reclaiming the Feminine
Link to Event: bit.ly/ASSTNov24HVR Event Website: https://www.asst.art/upcoming-events Event Description: Come and hear Laura Deal’s amazing re-enactment of the legendary Jungian analyst Marion Woodman whose work and writings brought the term “The Feminine Principle” into the cultural consciousness. Lynn Torrie and Rachel Ann Harding will be telling stories that reflect that principle. Let these storytellers open the way to reclaim the Feminine. This program is presented through a partnership between Her Voice Returns and Artists Standing Strong Together. $15US suggested donation, with a portion of the proceeds going toward the Canadian Women's Foundation
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HSA: Listening to our Anger. Acting from Love. How Healing Story Work Helps.
Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/listening-to-our-anger-acting-from-love-ho-tickets-188626 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 651-703-8191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Listening to Our Anger | Acting From Love | How Healing Story Work Helps Facilitator: Elisa Pearmain Sunday, November 10th 2:00-5:00 pm EST Tickets $25-$75 (pay what you are able) About this Workshop Anger is an uncomfortable, often taboo, sometimes dangerous, and very necessary emotion. It informs us when our personal needs are not being met, when there is injustice, and when action is required. Anger often covers painful emotions, such as grief, powerlessness, shame, and fear. Understanding how our anger is trying to help us is a crucial step in the forgiveness/healing process. By listening to our anger’s stories with compassion and curiosity, we connect to what is important to us, and live more authentically. What We will do in the Workshop In this participatory workshop, we will explore familial and cultural stories we learned around our right to feel and express anger. We will recall times when our righteous anger empowered us to make change. A Buddhist folktale will lend insight into the many reasons we hold on to resentments. Elisa will guide us in a practice to befriend and learn from our anger. We will end with an individual exploration of a situation that triggers our anger: listening with compassion to its wisdom, finding the love and grief underneath, and empowering ourselves to take healing action. About the Presenter Elisa Pearmain is a Professional Storyteller, award-winning author and licensed psychotherapist. She has been thinking, storytelling, writing, counseling and teaching about forgiveness for over 15 years. Certifications in Internal Family Systems Therapy and Mindfulness Training guide her approach. Her double CD Forgiveness: Telling our Stories in New Ways won a Storytelling World Honor Award in 2014. She has led variations on this workshop at the CT Storytelling Festival, at the Sharing the Fire conference, in churches and for private groups.
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HSA Kind Stories in Concert
Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-november-3rd-2024-tickets-188616 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 651-703-8191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com Kind Stories in Concert 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: November 3, 2024 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. ABOUT OUR STORYTELLERS Featured Tellers Adam Booth is the 2022 West Virginia Folk Artist of the Year, awarded at the Governor’s Arts Awards. Adam blends traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia to create original, forward-thinking story artistry. Adam’s new multidisciplinary program, “The Heron’s Journey,” has been selected for the 2024-2025 Mid Atlantic Arts Touring Roster. He is a member of the Recording Academy and his recordings have received multiple national honors, including a Parents’ Choice Gold Award. Adam serves as the inaugural Storyteller-In-Residence at Shepherd University and is the founding artistic director of Speak Story Series, a premier destination for storytelling in concert. Lisa Williams is a storyteller, leader, friend, partner, and mother. As a retired secondary mathematics teacher, she skillfully used storytelling to transform abstract concepts into concrete understanding for her students. She is the CEO and Founder of “Magnolia StoryMatters,” serves on the board of the National Storytelling Network, and is the Director of Storytelling in Organizations. Beyond her professional life, Lisa enjoys traveling, exercising, reading, and cherishing time with her family and friends. Cindy Rivka Marshall is an award-winning professional storyteller, story coach, and children’s book writer based in the Boston area. Her workshops bring story-based approaches to education, diversity awareness, and community building. Her commitment to social justice motivates Cindy to design and facilitate personal story sharing experiences that lift up marginalized groups. Her recordings of stories have won awards from Parent’s Choice, Storytelling World, and National Parenting Publications. Emcee Bob Kanegis claims roots that reach back to the esteemed sages and fools of Chelm. Thus, it is that he tells tales that span the ridiculous to the sublime. He believes that we each have two big stories; The Story of Me and the Story of We. Where they intersect is where community happens. With that view as a compass, Bob has spearheaded numerous collaborations including Vision and Voices with the National Park Service, We Have Stories to Tell, a multiyear project with farm workers and homeless families, F.E.A.S.T Families Eating and Storytelling Together and the promotion of his initiative, The Endangered Stories Act. Through Three-Fold Legacy workshops and individual coaching, he guides people to uncover, craft and tell their most important stories. Bob has contributed to anthologies including: The Healing Heart-Stories to Build Community; Telling Across Language Barriers; Speak Peace; and Where the Heart Is-A Celebration of Home. Learn more at www.storyconnection.com and find Bob’s musings on intersection of folktales, family, culture, and nature on his blog- www.storytellerscampfire.com Community Tellers Whittier Mikkelsen is an author and storyteller who specializes in telling healing stories and facilitating workshops centering on disability and emotional healing. She holds an MA in psychology and worked in mental health until pain, secondary to cerebral palsy, caused her to slow down and pursue writing. Whittier’s love of the natural world has led her to photography. Her floral photographs hang in local galleries. A resident of Florida’s Gulf Coast, she is focused on storytelling and writing her memoir. Stu Ervin is a retired engineer who designed imaging hardware. He is a lifelong musician who plays many instruments. He sees music as a window to the soul. Stu is a climate activist. He says that being a dad was the best thing he ever did. His dream is to offer free music lessons to kids who can’t afford them.
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HSA OARS in the Water-Empowering Others Through (Our) Stories
Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 651-703-8191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com OARS in the Water October 23. 2024 7:00pm-8:30pm EDT Hosted by Mike Seliger and Michael D. McCarty Theme: Empowering Others Through (Our) Stories When we share a story, whether it is personal, traditional, historic, true or created, that story is heard and reacted to by its audience. Often it is a story that needs to be heard, by individuals or groups that need support or encouragement, to overcome confusion, doubt or a sense of powerlessness. We don’t always know the effect that our telling will have, but we trust that there is a good reason why we share those stories. We will share examples of stories that have empowered individuals or groups (OR US!). We will encourage OARS participants to identify times that they have either told, or heard stories that empowered themselves or others. 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. Because of the personal nature of this format, HSA does not record the program for later viewing. 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 No registration is required. Just click on the link to join the event. About our Hosts for October 23rd Mike Seliger brings experience as a community organizer in New York City, a role in higher education, and studies as a mime and clown to his storytelling. He refers to himself as a Creative Communicator, because “I use whatever vehicle makes sense to get an intended message across — whether it’s story, poetry, visual media, or quiet compassionate listening.” He is a long-time member of the HSA Advisory Committee and has been actively supportive of OARS in Water since its beginning. Michael D. McCarty is a multicultural storyteller of African, African-American and International Folktales, Historical tales, Stories of Science, Spiritual stories as well as stories of the brilliant and absolutely stupid things he has done in his life! His stories inform, educate, inspire and amuse. His storytelling style is energetic and enthusiastic. Michael has traveled to many countries and his travels have reaped a harvest of tales that testify to the unity within the diversity of the human spirit.
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HSA OARS in the Water-Shoulders: Comfort and Solace
Link to Event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84757183292?pwd=WENjdm53c3hRb0owQmZuK045M0FKQT09 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 651-703-8191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com OARS in the Water October 9. 2024 7:00pm-8:30pm EDT Hosted by Joe Doolittle & Claire Nolan Theme: Shoulders: Comfort and Solace Join us as we explore the realm of how we give and receive comfort and care. We will journey through stories and an inspiring poem, “Shoulders” by Naomi Shihab Nye. 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. Because of the personal nature of this format, HSA does not record the program for later viewing. 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 October 9th Joe Doolittle specializes in stories of home and family, historical events, places and people. He has applied his humorous and good-natured style to audiences throughout Upstate New York. He is a member of the HSA Program Committee guiding OARS and other HSA offerings. A retired health care executive, he has practiced healing stories as a Stephen Minister in his church and as a volunteer on call Chaplain at the Albany Medical Center. Claire Nolan tells folktales and myths at various venues in and around New York’s Capital District. Claire has the benefit of a large family that informs her humor and repertoire. Claire has a base in the learning center in NYS Thacher Park in the Helderbergs near Albany. She often appears at Word Plays at Proctors in Schenectady. At Wiawaka in Lake George, Claire performs in personae as various notable historic women. More recently, Claire has been working on stories in honor of our Mother, the Earth. She is an ardent conservationist. Healing the Earth is a bridge to her interest in healing stories. On the side she also teaches English as a second language at SUNY Albany.
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