Storytelling Events Dec 6th - 10th

December 6, 2011

Heart-to-Heart Storytellers

State: Tennessee

Date(s) of Event    
September 6, Oct 4, Nov 1, Dec 6,

Title of Event    
Heart-to-Heart Storytellers

Details
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Heart to Heart Storytellers The club mission is to maintain an uplifting environment supportive of members, tellers and listeners, who desire to experience and/or learn the art and craft of storytelling. Discussions on how to write and tell stories are based on published workers of professional tellers, articles from NSN Storytelling magazines and workshops attended. Members tell stories from a multitude of sources. Members are encouraged to further develop their skills though coaching, which is optional. Sometimes a teller just wishes to get the story "out" without coaching.

1 pm - 2:30 pm   
FREE for guests. Membership $10.00 per year.   
Hendersonville First United Methodist Church 217 East Main Street
Hendersonville, TN 37075 
615-264-4772
jngmarshall@comcast.net
http://hendersonvilleheart2heart.webs.com

December 7, 2011

Speak Up Spoken Word Open Mike Hosted by Storyteller Tony Toledo

State: Massachusetts

Speak Up Spoken Word Open Mike is held every Wednesday at The Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut Street, Lynn MA. It is hosted by storyteller Tony Toledo who gives every speaker a story and a lucky coin at the end of their words. We start at 7:30 pm till 10ish. Each person who wants to speak gets 5 minutes at the microphone. Tony stands up when all the sand in the five minute hour glass is done. At five and a half minutes he is walking toward the speaker. At 6 minutes he will slide his tongue in your ear. We are a free speech zone with a three word cussing minimum. Storytellers, poets, comedians,singers, community activists and just plain ranters are all welcome. Each week has a Featured Performer who goes on at 8:30 PM for half an hour. The hat is passed to get gas money so the feature can get home. See you at Speak Up.
Time(s) 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Admission Free, pass the hat for the feature.
Location - The Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut Street, Lynn, MA 01905
Contact Phone 978-921-4628
Contact Email  ToledoGoat@aol.com
Event Website www.facebook.com/walnutstreet

December 8, 2011

The Storytellers Cafe' Story Slam

State: Kentucky

A family vacation, a trip with dad to the hardware store, bathing the family dog – all stories. A canoe trip with friends, a battle with cancer, an afternoon cleaning out the garage – all stories. A wedding day, a funeral, a birthday party – all stories. We all love to share our stories and love hearing others.

Storytelling is an art. An art that needs to be shared. Stories are how we connect to one another, how we communicate. Weather you’re telling your story or listening to others’ it’s all about communicating and connecting. Join the fun every 2nd Thursday at Common Grounds Coffee House for the Storytellers Café. You’ll be inspired, I guarantee it.

For Storytellers Cafe' club information, visit http://www.meetup.com/StorytellersCafe/

7:00 to 9:00 pm
Admission  Free 
Common Grounds Coffee House
343 E. High St.
Lexington, KY 40507   
859-266-2644   
susan@thespeakerstudio.com
www.TheStorytellersCafe.com

December 9, 2011

Tellabration

State: Maine

MOOSE (Maine Organization Of Storytelling Enthusiasts) presents:
Tellabration 2011!
Hosted by Michael Parent
Tellers: Audry Mason, Meg Gillman, Jo Radner, Jean Armstrong, Pat Gardiner, Sarah Halford, Roland Watier, Katy Rydell
    
7pm
Admission $10
Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium
Monument Square, Portland, Maine 04101 
207-871-9439 Debb Freedman    
storyspell@hotmail.com Debb Freedman
moosetellers@ning.com

Monthly Ventura County, CA Storytelling Guild meeting

State: California

Ventura County Storytelling Guild meeting
The Ventura County Storytelling Guild mees on the 2nd Friday of the month from 6:30-8:45 p.m. at Proverbs Coffeehouse on the grounds of Peace Lutheran Church, 71 Loma Road, Camarillo. Occasionally there may be a conflict with the facility, so please write Elaine Muray at to reconfirm. All listeners and tellers welcome. Tellers should bring a 10-minute story to share if desired. $3-5 building use donation suggested.
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Donation of $3-$5.
71 Loma Road, Camarillo, CA 93003
805-407-2538
elaine@embodiedvoicestoryarts.com

Urban Tellers: It's All Relative

State: Oregon

What binds us as a family? The laughs? The arguments? The secrets? Find out on Friday, December 9th, when Portland Story Theater presents stories about family. Featuring:
Enrique E. Andrade, voice talent
Melanie Harmon, improv artist
Lori King, storyteller
Russell Young, photographer
Gina Lutes, dragon boat racer
Beth Weissman, artist
And special guest, Bill Hillman, an award winning essayist from Chicago and staff writer for the Criminal Class Press

Doors 7:00PM - Show 8:00PM
Admission $10 Advance - $15 Door
Advance Tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/203534

Hipbone Studio - 1847 EAST Burnside, Portland, OR 97212
503-284-2226
tellers@portlandstorytheater.com
http://www.portlandstorytheater.com/urban.tellers/9Dec11.htm

"Hearing the Call: Claiming Your Story", a weekend workshop retreat on story, myth and journey

State: North Carolina

Everyone has a story to tell. Heeding the call of story launches us on a hero’s journey that is filled with wonders, guides and undiscovered gems, as well as tests, challenges and demons. Embracing the unfamiliar path can be daunting – and rewarding. And if you are at a crossroads, this might be the moment to be daring. In the claiming, creating, and living of our story, we can find courage to embark on a deeper, more authentic life.
This workshop retreat offers the opportunity to explore those stuck places in your life through myth, music and metaphor. By using story, music, art, poetry and guided imagery, you will have the opportunity to examine who you are and where you are going, and to embrace the story of your hero’s journey that lies within.

7:00 pm Friday evening though Saturday at 5:00 pm
Admission  $195 ($160 if paid in full by November 21, 2011)

Downtown Asheville, NC   
828-258-1113
connie@storywindow.com
http://www.storywindow.com/print_pages/workshop_desc_dec11.htm

December 9 - 10

December 10, 2011

Second Saturday Storytelling

State: Ohio

Enjoy traditional storytelling in the natural surroundings of Cleveland Metroparks on the second Saturday of most months. A venue for the best tellers from the Cleveland, Ohio area and beyond for over twelve years! Recently added: a story swap segment. After a featured teller/program and refreshments, share in a story swap with your own family-friendly stories. Ages: Adults and older students.
Time(s) 7:30 p.m.
Admission Free
Location -
CanalWay Visitor Center
E 49th St. Entrance
Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation
Cuyahoga Hts, OH
Contact Phone 440-734-6660
Contact Email jpr@clevelandmetroparks.com
Event Website http://www.clemetparks.com/events/programs/calendar.asp

Storytelling Events November 30th - December 3rd 2011

November 30, 2011

Speak Up Spoken Word Open Mike Hosted by Storyteller Tony Toledo

State: Massachusetts

Speak Up Spoken Word Open Mike is held every Wednesday at The Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut Street, Lynn MA. It is hosted by storyteller Tony Toledo who gives every speaker a story and a lucky coin at the end of their words. We start at 7:30 pm till 10ish. Each person who wants to speak gets 5 minutes at the microphone. Tony stands up when all the sand in the five minute hour glass is done. At five and a half minutes he is walking toward the speaker. At 6 minutes he will slide his tongue in your ear. We are a free speech zone with a three word cussing minimum. Storytellers, poets, comedians,singers, community activists and just plain ranters are all welcome. Each week has a Featured Performer who goes on at 8:30 PM for half an hour. The hat is passed to get gas money so the feature can get home. See you at Speak Up.
Time(s) 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Admission Free, pass the hat for the feature.
Location - The Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut Street, Lynn, MA 01905
Contact Phone 978-921-4628
Contact Email  ToledoGoat@aol.com
Event Website www.facebook.com/walnutstreet

December 2, 2011

First Friday Storynight @ BLTC

State: Washington

Wintertime… and the livin’ is easy. At least on the first Friday of the month in Port Townsend, WA it is, as we engage in that ancient act of gathering together as a community listening to stories told by those who love to tell! Please join Mythsinger Foundation and host Brian Rohr for this monthly ritual of First Friday Storynight @ Better Living Through Coffee.

This month we will be featuring host Brian Rohr and International Storyteller and Seattle resident Kathy Currie. Currie will be bringing us her ever popular, and unseasonally delightful collection of stories called "Argggg, Pirates.”

This monthly event explores the art and ritual of the oral tradition: sharing the old myths, folk tales, and fairy tales along with more modern stories and personal sharings. Showcased will be local and visiting storytellers, musicians and weavers of magic with words. Each month, there are two to three featured tellers, and space for guests in the audience to share a story or two during the open mic sections.
7-9pm
Admission $10 Suggested Donation

Better Living Through Coffee
100 Tyler St.
Port Townsend, WA 98368
360.531.2535
brian@brianrohr.com
www.brianrohr.com/FirstFridayStorynight

Single Day Event

First Friday Open Mic Night

State: Tennessee

Heart-to-Heart Storytellers (HHS) feature a monthly first Friday Open Mic Night at Mimis' Cafe. A featured teller is highlighted and HHS members also perform. Audience participatin is encouraged. Time limit 10-minutes. Stories are timed. A small heart is held up at 8 minute, a larger heart at 9 minutes and at 10 minutes the heart is waved. Fun noise-makers applaud the teller off stage! Mimis Cafe in support of the HHS vision to develop a youth storytelling club in Sumner County donates 15% of sales to HHS. There is also a 50/50 raffle with funds raised earmarked for youth storytelling development. HHS endeavors to promote storytelling, encourage adults to share and persevere family stories and provide a place where youth storytellers' voices are heard and valued.
    
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Admission  FREE    
Mimis Cafe, 298 Indian Lake Bl., Hendersonville, TN 37075
615-264-4772
jngmarshall@comcast.net
http:hendersonvilleheart2heart.webs.com/

Single Day Event

Holiday Storytelling—Sharing the Magic of the Holidays workshop

State: North Carolina

at the John C. Campbell Folk School with Elizabeth Rose
Decorations, trees, lights, Santa, reindeer, presents, family, anticipation! Everyone has special holiday memories, vignettes, and traditions. Preserve them by crafting stories from them and learning to find your “voice” in telling the tales, so that you will be able to pass down these remembrances through the generations. It’s the gift that keeps on giving—the gift of story! All levels welcome.

Housing and Meals: Available on-site for an additional fee.
9 am- 5 pm daily
Tuition: $308  
John C. Campbell Folk School
1 Folk School Road
Brasstown, NC 28902 
800-FOLK-SCH; 828-837-2775
info@folkschool.org
www.folkschool.org

December 3, 2011

Holiday Storytelling—Sharing the Magic of the Holidays workshop

State: North Carolina

at the John C. Campbell Folk School with Elizabeth Rose
Decorations, trees, lights, Santa, reindeer, presents, family, anticipation! Everyone has special holiday memories, vignettes, and traditions. Preserve them by crafting stories from them and learning to find your “voice” in telling the tales, so that you will be able to pass down these remembrances through the generations. It’s the gift that keeps on giving—the gift of story! All levels welcome.

Housing and Meals: Available on-site for an additional fee.
9 am- 5 pm daily
Tuition: $308  
John C. Campbell Folk School
1 Folk School Road
Brasstown, NC 28902 
800-FOLK-SCH; 828-837-2775
info@folkschool.org
www.folkschool.org

12-02 :: 12-04

A Christmas Rose told by Patrick Ball

State: Indiana

In A Christmas Ros, Patrick Ball will tell the traditional tales from A Child's Chrstmas in Wales; chapters from The Wind in the Willows: and passages from Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, and Thomas Hardy, mingling them with beloved pieces of seasonal music on his Celtic harp.

7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
$20/Advance, $25/Door

Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center
450 W. Ohio St
Indianapolis, IN 46202

317-576-9848    
Ellen@storytellingarts.org
www.storytellingarts.org

Single Day Event

"Santa's Gone Hawaiian!"

State: California

Family Holiday Show with Storyteller B.Z. Smith and the Blue Shoes Ukulele Orchestra
Now in our third year, join us for a raucous good time to start off the holidays. BZ will tell holiday stories and Aunty Uke's Blue Shoes Ukulele Orchestra will lead us in songs of the season, including our favorite "Christmas Island." We'll also have a wonderful family friendly raffle with something for everyone. Grand door prize: A ride on "Santa's Holiday Express" at Railtown 1897 Historic State Park. This holiday event is sponsored by Delta Kappa Gamma's Iota Epsilon Chapter and is a fund raiser for Family Literacy Activities in Tuolumne County, CA.

TICKETS at Mountain Bookshop (209.532.6117), Stage 3 Theatre Box Office (209.536.1778) and at the door. ADVANCE PURCHASE OF TICKETS IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. THIS IS A POPULAR SHOW!

11am to 12:30pm
$5 for children 3&up. Children under 3 are free. Adults with a child are free. Adults unaccompanied by a child--$10

Stage 3 Theatre, 208 S. Green St., Sonora, CA 95370
209.532.7697  
bz@hive-arts.org
www.hive-arts.org

Single Day Event

Storytelling Events November 22nd - 26th, 2011

November 22, 2011

Tellabration! A Gathering of Storytellers and Story Listeners
State: Wisconsin
Stories will be appropriate for families with children (adults without children who are interested in the art of storytelling are welcome).

Featured tellers include: Karen Wendt, Don Falkos, and Kay Elmsley-Weeden will be sharing their stories, ranging from traditional to personal. Also, enjoy the musical stories of Ken Lonnquist, award-winning songwriter and performer! This is a Free event. Wheelchair accessible.

6:00 to 7:00p.m.
Admission Free

Monona Public Library
1000 Nichols Road, Monona WI 53716
608-216-7453
kmwendt@mononalibrary.org
http://www.mononalibrary.org/youth/index.html
Single Day Event

Clemson Area StoryTellers Guild Meeting
State: South Carolina
Clemson Area StoryTellers Guild, meets the 4th Tuesday of each month, 7:00PM, at The Art Center, Clemson, SC. We Welcome Listeners as well as those with a story to tell! If you have a  family friendly story to share, poetry or music.... come and tell to a captive audience! Listeners are Welcome! 
4th Tuesday of each month (Dec. TBD) 
7:00 PM 
FREE  
All Welcome! 
The Art Center 
212 Butler St 
Clemson, SC 29631 
(go to explorearts.org for directions and map) 
864.653.4932 
clemsonareastorytellers@yahoo.com

November 23, 2011

Speak Up Spoken Word Open Mike Hosted by Storyteller Tony Toledo
State: Massachusetts
Speak Up Spoken Word Open Mike is held every Wednesday at The Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut Street, Lynn MA. It is hosted by storyteller Tony Toledo who gives every speaker a story and a lucky coin at the end of their words. We start at 7:30 pm till 10ish. Each person who wants to speak gets 5 minutes at the microphone. Tony stands up when all the sand in the five minute hour glass is done. At five and a half minutes he is walking toward the speaker. At 6 minutes he will slide his tongue in your ear. We are a free speech zone with a three word cussing minimum. Storytellers, poets, comedians,singers, community activists and just plain ranters are all welcome. Each week has a Featured Performer who goes on at 8:30 PM for half an hour. The hat is passed to get gas money so the feature can get home. See you at Speak Up. 
Time(s) 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Admission Free, pass the hat for the feature.
Location - The Walnut Street Coffee Cafe, 157 Walnut Street, Lynn, MA 01905
Contact Phone 978-921-4628
Contact Email  ToledoGoat@aol.com 
Event Website www.facebook.com/walnutstreet
Single Day Event

November 26, 2011

Tellebration at The Spoken Word Cafe
State: New York
The Spoken Word Café in Poughkeepsie, New York will hold its annual Tellebration with five celebrated presenters to delight, captivate, and mesmerize you, and to strengthen our common bonds as brothers and sisters of the spoken word: Janet Carter, Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi, Jonathan Heiles, Muriel W. Horowitz and Bill Joel will spin their tales - mostly at the adult level, but everyone is welcome. For info: Angela Henry, Artistic Director, 917-509-5636
   
7:00 PM
Admission $5

67 South Randolph Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 
917-509-5636
graceangelahenry@gmail.com
Single Day Event