Tag: Personal Stories

Tellebration 2024!

Tellebration 2024

Join storytellers at the American School of Storytelling in Minneapolis for Tellebration on Saturday, November 30, 2-5pm. The event is a partnership between Story Arts of Minnesota, Black Storytellers Alliance, and the National Storytelling Network. Featured tellers are Rose Arrowsmith, Brother Ase, Danielle Daniel, and Loren Niemi. Nicholas Pawlowski will host the event.

Donations are requested. The American School of Storytelling is located at 1762 Hennepin Ave South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403.

Jim Stowell “The World’s Most Frequently Bombed Hotel”

Europa Hotel

The World’s Most Frequently Bombed Hotel  is a story with a big heart filled with vivid, singular, sometimes raw, characters who come to life in Stowell’s tales of Belfast, Northern Ireland where he lived in a Catholic neighborhood which had the highest rate of violent incidents anywhere in the country during the “war”(AKA “The Troubles”). That is the way he operates wherever he goes. He lives within the culture and gets to know the people on their ground, on their terms. All in service of the story’s ultimate question: In places like Belfast where does hope come from?

Jim StowellThe press has called Stowell, “A great American storyteller. “ “A genius” “Not to be missed.” His work has been compared to or with, Lewis Carrol, William Faulkner, Gary Snyder, Mark Twain, Fellini and the Marx Brothers.

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Jim Stowell “The World’s Most Frequently Bombed Hotel”

Europa Hotel

The World’s Most Frequently Bombed Hotel  is a story with a big heart filled with vivid, singular, sometimes raw, characters who come to life in Stowell’s tales of Belfast, Northern Ireland where he lived in a Catholic neighborhood which had the highest rate of violent incidents anywhere in the country during the “war”(AKA “The Troubles”). That is the way he operates wherever he goes. He lives within the culture and gets to know the people on their ground, on their terms. All in service of the story’s ultimate question: In places like Belfast where does hope come from?

Jim StowellThe press has called Stowell, “A great American storyteller. “ “A genius” “Not to be missed.” His work has been compared to or with, Lewis Carrol, William Faulkner, Gary Snyder, Mark Twain, Fellini and the Marx Brothers.

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A Few Tales – Faerie & Otherwise with Patrick Scully

Patrick Scully

Patrick says “A Few Tales – Faerie & Otherwise will be me, on stage telling stories – my most at-home mode – honed over decades of hosting Patrick’s Cabaret. Many people have told me: You should write a book. Here it comes, but not on paper, on stage! More storyteller than writer, I resisted writing – too much computer time! I feel most alive and at ease telling stories, like I did at Patrick’s Cabaret. Voila – “A Few Tales – Faerie & Otherwise”.

The structure of “A Few Tales…” is based on TV’s “Jeopardy”. Behind each box is a story. The audience determines the flow of the show, choosing box by box among 6 categories, with 5 choices in each category to determine the evening’s stories. The 6 categories across the top are things like: Resisting Authority, Making Queer Art, Being Gay & HIV+, Being Naked, Creating Spaces, Wandering.

Patrick has been called a provocateur, free speech champion, impresario, raconteur, choreographer, performance artist, orator, storyteller, pioneer. And activist. He’ll be onstage telling these personal stories, and more!

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Eulogies and Funeral Orations Workshop

Stairway

Someone is tasked with offering a summation of a life, words of comfort, or the sentiments of the family or friends at a memorial service. Are you ready to speak to the living for the dead? In the moment of grief, in the grip of emotion, what do you say? This is a hands-on workshop in the art and mechanics of eulogies and funeral orations and includes a one hour individual coaching session after the workshop.

Workshop taught by Loren Niemi 

Thursday, November 14 from 7:00-8:30 PM CT online. $20 per person for the workshop. Zoom link will be emailed on the day of the workshop.

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Michigan Bright Water Storytelling Festival

Brightwater Storytelling Festival

Our 2nd annual festival will be at Howell Opera House and Howell Carnegie District Library in Howell, Michigan.

The Founder Loren Niemi is teaching the “Walking to Find Poems and Stories” workshop. Throughout the day, Michigan Bright Water Storytelling Festival will host 3 engaging storytelling workshops, an open mic, and an evening concert at the Opera House.

There will also be a special afternoon Family Track with a concert, workshops and open mic at the Library.

Kentucky Storytelling Conference

Kentucky Storytelling Conference

Join the founder Loren Niemi at the 2024 Kentucky Storytelling Conference happening November 1-2. Fabulous workshops, a wonderful featured teller, and a great location. Workshops will meet the storytelling education needs of storytellers, librarians, preachers, teachers, and more, so let’s learn together. They’ll have open mics when anyone may tell a short tale.

If you have friends who like listening, but don’t want to learn about telling, bring them along too. During the day they can enjoy the area, and at night they can join us at the evening concerts. They’ll hear stories from our featured teller and other conference participants.

Story Beads Workshop

Debra Ting

No matter if you are 22, 52, or 92, your personal stories matter. Whether they are tales of amazing accomplishments or simple accounts of ordinary events, they will speak to the heart and soul of another because your experiences are both unique and universal. Come to this storytelling workshop and start to mine your precious gems. Through playful, interactive exploration and oral sharing, you will begin to string together the stories of your life.

Workshop taught by Debra Ting

Four in-person sessions  Tuesdays, Nov 12, 19, 26 and Dec 3. All sessions at 7:00 PM CT in the 1762 Hennepin space.

$80 for the course.

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3rd Annual Spring Grove Storytelling Festival

Spring Grove Storytelling Festival 2024

Welcome to the Spring Grove Storytelling Festival! Get ready for a day filled with captivating tales and unforgettable memories. Join us on Sat Sep 21 2024 at Noon at Spring Grove Park for an afternoon of storytelling magic. Parking available at Horse Fair Park. Bring your friends and family! See you there!

Event: Spring Grove Park – Loren Niemi teaches a Master Class. Essential storytelling techniques and strategies will be taught. From 9 AM to 11 AM at Spring Grove Elementary (2018 Main St Rd, Spring Grove, IL 60081)

Parking: Horse Fair Park – 8105 Blivin St, Spring Grove, IL 60081

“Doors” open at 11:30am – Starts at 12pm

Food trucks! and/or Bring Your Own Picnic

For more details visit www.springgrovestorytelling.org

Jim Stowell “Life in the Theater”

CTC 1975 Treasure Island Jim Stowell as Long John Silver

Jim Stowell with an  energetic and engaging performance of his autobiographical stories, this time surveying his first experiences with life in the theater:

“In 1968 I started acting, what I think of as at a professional level. I am still working onstage in 2024. So I have worked in live theater for 56 years. I have watched the life of theater in the Twin Cities change and change and change again.

I did not grow up wanting to be on stage as a number of people I have known in the theater did. They started doing plays in their living room or in their backyard for family and friends. Not me. At that age I wanted to play 3rd base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. So, how did I get started in theater? Why theater? This story answers those questions and talks about the hard work, the raw fear of failure, actual failure, heartbreak, friendships, joy, hopelessness and new hope. A goofy kid with big ears from south Texas who comes to Minneapolis knowing no one in the theater world of the Twin Cities and knows nothing about theater, becomes a star. At least, in the Twin Cities.”

 

Teller Bio:
Learn more at Jim Stowell’s website

A professional actor, director, playwright and storyteller for around fifty years, Jim has written and directed eleven full cast plays. This includes two children’s plays, two adaptations, a Spanish language one-act and the book for a musical comedy, running somewhere in America for the last 17 years and produced three spinoffs.

Jim has written and performed twelve one man plays that were commissioned and produced by six different theaters in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. His work has also been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, in a big blue tent in Northern Wisconsin, an Art Center in Mexico, a theater in Guatemala, a school in Nicaragua, a banana plantation in Honduras and a jungle village in Brazil.

Photo credit: playsforallages.blogspot.com/2010/09/treasure-island.html

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