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Seacoast Storytellers Presents Seacoast Storytellers FB
Seacoast Storytellers meet At 6:30 PM, on the Fourth Tuesday of the month with the series Seacoast Storytellers Presents*, featuring epic storyteller Sebastian Lockwood followed by open mic. Meets at the PPMTV studio inside the Mall at Fox Run in Newington, NH (directions at end). Link: http://nhstorytelling.org/seacoast-storytellers *This is a monthly Spoken Word Open Mic with a featured performer. It is produced by the Seacoast Storytellers' Guild in partnership with the NH Storytelling Alliance and Portsmouth Public Media & Television. It is free and open to the public. We love having a studio audience and anyone can throw their name into the hat for the open mic portion of the show. 2024 Series Features Part 1: January 23 - Jessica LaBrie, Green Witch February 27 - Sebastian Lockwood , Epic Storyteller March 26 - Rivka Willick , Drumming Teller and teacher. April 23 - Merrill Kohlhofer , Seacoast Historical Teller May 28 - Andy Davis , Mountain Teller June 25 - Tony Toledo , Cape Ann Teller Directions to PPMTV's studio: Clicking on 'Mall at Fox Run' Newington, New Hampshire on Goggle Maps will bring you to the Northern entrance by the bus station and between Men's Warehouse and Macy's for Men. If you enter from the North entrance (by Men's Warehouse), following the right hand side wall will bring you to the PPMTV Studio. It's across from FYE (a variety store). There is a children's playground between them.
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Vicki Juditz Featured at The 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 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/StorySpaceSubscribe01a 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). Vicki Juditz: is an actress and personal story crafter and presenter extraordinaire in L.A. Tonight she presents: ADVENTURES OF THE GREEN HOUSEWIFE! One woman's quest to go perfectly green. Eventually, she must don the cape of a super hero. Feature’s website: http://www.storytellingcenter.net/tellers/vicki-juditz/ 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 seasoned tellers and newcomers alike are received with 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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Traditions and Truth: Open Mic for Folktales, Fair Tales, and Personal Stories
Link to Event: https://storytelling.org/events/new-events/ Event Website: https://storytelling.org/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: info@storytelling.org storytelling.org and Dominican University presents: Traditions and Truth: A Virtual Open Mic featuring Sue Searing Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 7-8:30pm CST / Online Zoom Free - Donations Welcome Email Janice at: jdelnegro@dom.edu for the Zoom link and/or if you are interested in telling a story (7-10minutes)
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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/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com OARS in the Water February 28th at 7:00pm-8:30pm EST Hosted by Sara DeBeer & Anabelle Castaño Theme: Interpersonal Translations Even if people engaged in a conversation speak the same language, there are nuances that might get “lost in translation”. Tonight will be an opportunity to reflect on how we can really listen so that the conversation is a bridge and not a barrier. OARS in the Water is a facilitated Zoom gathering on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month offered by Healing Story Alliance to create a listening space to share the experiences and stories that have emerged through turbulent times. This is not a therapeutic circle but we do hope it will be healing, supportive and inspiring. 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 February 28th Sara deBeer has been telling traditional folktales since 1978. Her great love is telling traditional folktales from world cultures. A published poet, Sara teaches poetry-writing classes for Beat of The Street (BOTS), a program for people who have experienced homelessness. She is a member of the HSA Advisory Committee and chair of HSA’s Kind Stories in Concert series. http://storydebeer.com/ Anabelle Castaño is a bilingual storyteller, archaeologist and museum educator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She interweaves her three professions and works on building bridges between material and immaterial culture through traditional stories from all continents. For the Schedule of upcoming OARS Meetings visit: https://storynet.org/groups/hsa/oars/
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HSA: Kind Stories in Concert
Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-march-3-2024-tickets-157626 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com The Healing Story Alliance presents: KIND STORIES in Concert with Emcee Sheila Arnold Register here to Receive a FREE Kind Stories in Concert Zoom Link https://www.simpletix.com/e/kind-stories-in-concert-march-3-2024-tickets-157626 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: March 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. “WHEN YOU ARE KIND TO OTHERS, IT NOT ONLY CHANGES YOU, IT CHANGES THE WORLD.” -Harold Kushner ABOUT the STORYTELLERS Galen R. Brandt is a writer, cross-cultural storyteller, performer, songwriter and singer. She pioneered the exploration and use of ground-breaking, interactive digital technologies as artistic medium and alternative healing modality in live performance, arts, education and special needs, including for those with perceptual, behavioral and physical challenges. She is an award-winning composer of children’s music for Disney, Hasbro, Western Publishing, Left Coast Television and Lorimar, a new product marketing expert, a corporate speechwriter, and a cultural journalist for publications from the New Age Journal to Playgirl. She is particularly interested in exploring thresholds — stepping into the skin of another in performance, experimenting with avatar self-representations with children with autism, midwifing the mystery of death while singing at bedsides. She's now writing one-woman musicals about piglets and country singers, and is on the Advisory Board of the Healing Story Alliance and Chair of the Oars in the Water program. Steven H. Hobbs is a storyframer who structures stories around history, law, entrepreneurship, quilting, world culture, ethics and family. He tells stories to uplift the human spirit, build community and pursue social justice. Formerly a law professor, Hobbs currently tells Untold Stories of Storied People for Storytelling Arts, Inc. Laura Packer knows that the best way to truth is through a good story; she has coached, told, taught, ranted, raved, consulted and considered storytelling around the world. She is committed to great storytelling, and helping others find their voice, tell their stories, and find healing in community. Laura has won multiple awards including the 2018 Minnesota Story Slam Championship and the 2020 National Storytelling Network Circle of Excellence. She holds a degree in folklore and mythology and is the author of From Audience to Zeal: The ABCs of Finding, Crafting, and Telling a Great Story. For her story and more, go to www.laurapacker.com. EMCEE Sheila Arnold, fondly known as Ms. Sheila, has been presenting Storytelling Programs, Historic Character Presentations, Christian Monologues, Professional Development and Inspirational/Motivational Speaking for schools, festivals, churches and organizations nationally and internationally since 2003. Sheila is also an Historical Consultant for museums, historical societies and organizations. One of Sheila's greatest joys is being the co-founder and Artistic Director of Artists Standing Strong Together (ASST), which formed during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, and continues to be a source of inspiration, strength and action in the storytelling and artists world. Sheila has been honored as a 2021 MacDowell Artist Fellow, a 2020 Mt. Vernon Research Fellow and a 2019 Hewnoaks Artist Colony summer residence Noted Artist. In the past she has worked as a Drama Ministry Director; Colonial Williamsburg employee; Substitute Teacher; and Social Worker for aggressive teens with emotional problems. Sheila lives in Hampton, VA, near her son, Kristopher; her two grandsons, Brooklyn & KJ; as well as, her father and stepmother, Wallace & Vera Arnold. She communicates often with her Atlanta-based sister, Stephanie. COMMUNITY TELLERS Judy Mroczka, despite her name, is of Irish heritage and thinks she has storytelling in her blood. She is a retired journalist and attorney, and used storytelling techniques in closing arguments to juries when she was a public defender. In retirement, she volunteers with hospice and the Red Cross, as well as a national park where she rides the bike patrol. She is an avid traveler and just returned from Ecuador. She began taking workshops with Noa Baum 10 years ago and went to her first storytelling festival in Jonesboro Tennessee last year. Muriel Cadet is a Haitian American woman and proud Boston resident. Having triumphed being homeless and addiction to drugs and alcohol, Murielle dedicates herself to advocacy for others who share the same experiences. As a speaker, she amplifies the voices of the voiceless, shedding light on homelessness and substance abuse. Murielle's journey is a testament to faith and resilience, as she tirelessly strives to make a meaningful impact in the diverse streets of Boston
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Navigating Controversial Conversations in the Family & Beyond
Link to Event: https://www.simpletix.com/e/navigating-controversial-conversations-a-b-tickets-159268 Event Website: https://healingstoryalliance.org/ Event Phone: 6517038191 Event Contact Email: ahealingstoryalliance@gmail.com The Healing Story Alliance presents: "Navigating Controversial Conversations in the Family & Beyond" A Braver Angels Workshop with Reena Bernards & Tom Smerling March 10, 2024 2:00pm-5:00pm Fee: $40-$70 Pay What You Are Able To Register: https://www.simpletix.com/e/navigating-controversial-conversations-a-b-tickets-159268 The goal of this workshop is to help build skills to manage controversial conversations in the family and beyond. Whether it be the conflict in Gaza or Ukraine, the climate crisis, border issues, or our upcoming political election, as people in our country take sides over controversial national and international issues, it can feel like the divide between us only deepens. Family relationships are becoming casualties of our toxic polarized environment. Family members are having nasty political arguments, avoiding each other, or even cutting off lifetime relationships. If you want to preserve important family bonds while still being true to your values and political beliefs, this workshop is for you! Braver Angels offers us the skills to have a different kind of conversation. Although the focus is on family relationships, you can use strategies in this workshop with any loved one. You’ll laugh and have some fun in this workshop—it won’t be all serious. After all, we all come from quirky families MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The Braver Angels Way: We state our views freely and fully, without fear. We treat people who disagree with us with honesty, dignity and respect. We welcome opportunities to engage those with whom we disagree. We believe all of us have blind spots and none of us are not worth talking to. We seek to disagree accurately, avoiding exaggeration and stereotypes. We look for common ground where it exists and, if possible, find ways to work together. We believe that, in disagreements, both sides share and learn. In Braver Angels, neither side is teaching the other or giving feedback on how to think or say things differently. Goals of the Workshop • Insight to why family differences over politics are uniquely challenging. • Recognition of the common roles that family members play in political conversations (for example, the Gladiator, the Defender, and the Sniper). • Understand strategies for dealing with political differences in a constructive way • Gain strategies and skills for communicating with others who hold different viewpoints ABOUT THE PRESENTERS Reena Bernards, works as a licensed couple and family therapist, specializing in relationship connections, inter-cultural families, and healing from trauma. She is certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy, as well as an AAMFT approved supervisor. She has lectured on “Responding Empathically to Survivors of Trauma” for the National Institutes of Health Office of Intramural Training and Education. Reena also works as a facilitator of inter-group dialogue and a trainer in diversity. She created the Common Ground Workshop for Braver Angels, which brings liberals and conservatives together for constructive dialogue. Reena brings the lens of attachment as a key human motivator to her therapy practice, as well as to her inter-group work. Tom Smerling had a long career in foreign and domestic policy and is now retired. He was the founder of Project Nishma, a national organization that organized American Jewish leaders to advocate for more proactive U.S. peace diplomacy. He led several delegations of Jewish leaders to Jordan, Syria, Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza. After merging Nishma with Israel Policy Forum, he organized dialogues between Jewish leaders, Syrian-Americans, and Iranian academics. Tom subsequently worked in strategic planning for the Ocean Service of NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency). Most recently, Tom has held a variety of national volunteer positions with Braver Angels, which brings together liberals and conservatives for mutual understanding. He currently serves as Braver Angel's Maryland State Coordinator.
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Spotlight on You Storytelling Workshop
Link to Event: https://www.bettersaidthandone.com/2023/10/13/fall-and-winter-workshops/ Jessica Robinson is leading this workshop on Personal Storytelling. Saturday, February 17, 2024 Online 2:00pm ET Details and Registration Here https://www.bettersaidthandone.com/2023/10/13/fall-and-winter-workshops/ A 3-4 hour workshop which includes lessons about storytelling structure, character development and other techniques for creating dramatic, engaging and true, personal stories. Class size is limited so all students will be given the opportunity to share a story and receive critical feedback.
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A Mid-Winter Night’s Dream with Jackson Gillman
Event Website: https://vinsweb.org/event/winter-wildlife-celebration-24/ Event Phone: 802-359-5000 Event Contact Email: jxsong@comcast.net Jackson Gillman will be performing selections from Winter Wonders and A Mid-Winter Night's Dream as part of an all-day Winter Wildlife Celebration. Vermont Institute of Natural Science
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Winter Wonders with Jackson Gillman
Event Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=972604901172158&set=pb.100052679706413.-2207520000 Event Phone: 508-238-6566 Event Contact Email: jxsong@comcast.net Everyone will be invited to help create an indoor snowstorm. Then in this imaginary winter wonderland, we can shovel, make snowmen, snow angels, and explore nature in winter. This program will take place inside the Visitor Center at Borderland State Park. It is supported by grant from Easton Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council.
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Winter Wonders with Jackson Gillman
Event Website: https://www.pilgrimhall.org/museum_events.htm Event Phone: 508-746-1620 x7 Event Contact Email: jxsong@comcast.net Winter Wonders - Participatory songs and stories about shoveling, snowmen, snow angels, and nature in winter.
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