Tag: Personal Stories
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NSN 2026 Conference: Prairie Voices
Every year, the National Storytelling Network invites voices from across the globe to come together in celebration of story. In 2026, we’ll gather in the Texas Panhandle, where the sweeping prairies and the grand walls of Palo Duro Canyon set the stage for Prairie Voices – Honoring Heritage, Inspiring Tomorrow. Here, stories will echo across generations—heritage meeting innovation, the…
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Storytelling: From Page to Stage
The longer we live, the more personal stories we have to tell. This course will focus on the basics of personal narrative storytelling and the process of adapting those personal stories from written to oral form. By the third session, class participants will have the opportunity to workshop a story in front of the group.…
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Christopher Nelson “I Have My Ways: Teaching Stories”
In “I Have My Ways: Teaching Stories”, retired elementary school teacher Christopher Nelson shares some of the funny, alarming, and touching stories from his career as an educator. Sufian Zhemukhov joins with his guitar for a wonderful night of stories and music! Teller bios: Christopher Nelson- Drawing on my experiences as an educator, I learned…
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Storytelling as Personal Mythology
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…
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2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival
Minnesota Fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression. As the producer of the largest performing arts festival in the Midwest, the annual Minnesota Fringe Festival event fills tens-of-thousands of seats with audiences viewing dozens of works at hundreds of performances by more than 1,000…
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Beginning Storytelling
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…
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Braided 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…
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Mary Jo Pehl
Stories of life and death and everything in between. Mary Jo Pehl is a writer, comedian, and storyteller, best known for “Mystery Science Theater 3000”. In addition to putting on shows in her garage with a variety of guest performers, she hosts a streaming show, The Mary Jo Pehl Show. She’s been published in Minnesota…
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Good Medicine
Storytelling fans, do not miss “Good Medicine”. Four gifted tellers are collaborating on this show which explores the things people do to rejuvenate, to heal, to escape the banalities or difficulties of life. Each of these tellers has performed many times at the American School of Storytelling and other venues. Take our word for it,…
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3D: stories of checkered youth, middle & old age
Storytelling fans, this is a hot ticket. Night one of the “3D” show sold out faster than you can say “drugs, debauchery and deliverance.” Get your tickets now for night two before another sell out happens. This will be the last night of this bawdy show. Here’s the skinny on “3D”: Leave the kiddies at home…