Crafting the authentic voice to artfully and truthfully tell our stories.
Braided stories combine, mix, and mingle traditional and personal material. This matinee performance features three storytellers, three different braids, geared toward an adult audience. Teller Bios: Travis Wolven: Travis accidentally became a storyteller through his use of stories while language teaching to humans across the multiverse of ages and cultures. With an M.A. in Communication […]
This is an ongoing monthly series of storytelling open mics that will take place on the 3rd Monday of the month. Here’s how it works: Up to 10 Tellers. 10 minutes each. Any style- traditional, personal, braided. etc. Sign-up will be first come, first serve. Doors at 6:30, show at 7pm. This event presented in […]
An evening of the stories that bring the Earth to life from an amazing slate of Storytellers. Brought together by the American School of Storytelling founder Loren Niemi, here’s an opportunity to dig deeper into the underlying narratives of the planet. Also, music, some wonderful orgs sharing their opps in the lobby, and a chance […]
S.P. Jayaraj presents a collection of stories from Hindu Mythology revolving around our love of the earth. From stories about Vishnu’s Varaha avatar where he saves the earth from greedy demons, to more obscure stories revolving around forest deities, to tales found in the epics the Ramayana and Mahabharata. These stories explore our connection to […]
This is an ongoing monthly series of poetry & spoken word open mics that will take place on the 4th Monday of the month. Here’s how it works: Up to 15 poets. 5 minutes or 3 poems each. Any form. Sign-up will be first come, first serve. Doors at 6:30, show at 7pm.
Have you wanted to tell stories? Or better stories? No experience? Some? Heard a Moth program and thought, you could or should try that? This four session hands-on class will give you the basic tools to identify, craft and confidently tell a traditional or personal story. It explores how to identify story seeds from your […]
Greg Watson’s The Shape of Your Absence is a poignant exploration of love, loss, and the echoes that linger after departure. With quiet precision and emotional clarity, Watson transforms absence into a living presence—something that shapes, rather than empties, the heart. These poems remind us that what is gone still breathes within what remains. “The Shape […]
We are adding a “Witness Open Mic” on the first Monday of the month, to offer our neighbors and fellow citizens a forum to share their stories. What has happened? What have you seen or done as a witness, observer, or volunteer? How are you living with your fear, anger, anxiety? What can we learn […]
This four session online workshop explores our relationship to myth(s) both in traditional and personal stories, looking at how myth infuses our being in the world and how it consciously (or not) shapes our storytelling. When we know how myth functions we can make conscious decisions about when and why it can add resonance to […]
The wilderness has always held attention somewhere in the overlap of unrestricted fascination, deep terror, and enduring mystique. As a living symbol, it represents the unknown and the unpredictable- the very medium of Life itself. Drawing on the languages of poetry, music, myth, and story we’ll venture headlong into the underbrush of the timeless soul, […]
FREE EVENT! American School of Storytelling is proud to host the founders of New Mexico’s Jules’ Poetry Playhouse- Jules Nyquist and John Roche, joined by special guest Roslye Ultan. Don’t miss this magical afternoon of poetry and stories. Award winning books will be available for purchase. Jules Poetry Playhouse Authors: Jules Nyquist is […]
This interactive storytelling event is an ‘unfolding’ during which Ruby mixes millennia old stories and her own storytelling to take audiences on a visceral adventure highlighting 1 of the 5 senses. Artist Bio: Growing up trilingually in a multi-ethnic blue collar immigrant neighborhood, Ruby learned early to navigate between differing narratives on the nature of […]