Tag: Storytelling

Nestor Gomez- Matinee

Nestor Gomez

Narrated by dynamic, award-winning storyteller Nestor Gomez, this intimate and immersive performance tells Gomez’s personal stories – , memories of his native Guatemala, his family’s immigration to the United States and the social, cultural, and linguistic struggles he has navigated ever since.

Teller bio: Nestor “the boss” Gomez was born in Guatemala and moved to Chicago with his family in the mid-80’s. At that time he was undocumented, had a stutter and didn’t know English. He didn’t have a voice.

Today Nestor speaks English with a sexy Latin accent, has become an American citizen and a storyteller, winner of close to 100 Moth Slams. He found his voice. He is also the creator, producer, curator and host of “80 Minutes Around the World”. a storytelling show that features the stories of immigrants, their descendants and allies.

He has published a book of stories about his experiences as an Uber/Lyft driver title: Your Driver Has Arrived. HE has a second collection of stories to be published later this year. To learn more about Nestor visit his website
https://www.nestorgomezstoryteller.com/

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.

To register:

  1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
  2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Nestor Gomez

Nestor Gomez

Narrated by dynamic, award-winning storyteller Nestor Gomez, this intimate and immersive performance tells Gomez’s personal stories – , memories of his native Guatemala, his family’s immigration to the United States and the social, cultural, and linguistic struggles he has navigated ever since.

Teller bio: Nestor “the boss” Gomez was born in Guatemala and moved to Chicago with his family in the mid-80’s. At that time he was undocumented, had a stutter and didn’t know English. He didn’t have a voice.

Today Nestor speaks English with a sexy Latin accent, has become an American citizen and a storyteller, winner of close to 100 Moth Slams. He found his voice. He is also the creator, producer, curator and host of “80 Minutes Around the World”. a storytelling show that features the stories of immigrants, their descendants and allies.

He has published a book of stories about his experiences as an Uber/Lyft driver title: Your Driver Has Arrived. HE has a second collection of stories to be published later this year. To learn more about Nestor visit his website
https://www.nestorgomezstoryteller.com/

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.

To register:

  1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
  2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Beginnings and Endings

Beginnings and Endings

The invitation for the audience to enter the story can be more complicated than “Once upon a time…”. Similarly, the ending often deserves more than a rote “Happily ever after..”   This two session hands-on workshop will explore how to strengthen the beginnings and endings of your chosen stories, whether personal or traditional.

Taught online by Loren Niemi, Zoom (2 sessions)

Thursdays, June 19th and 26th 7:00 – 8:30 PM (Central)

To register:

  1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
  2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Storytelling- Open Mic Mondays July 2025

Story Arts Open Mic

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 partnership of Story Arts of Minnesota and the American School of Storytelling.

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.

Storytelling- Open Mic Mondays June 2025

Story Arts Open Mic

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 partnership of Story Arts of Minnesota and the American School of Storytelling.

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.

Jim Stowell “Talking Pictures”

Jim Stowell- Talking Pictures

Talking Pictures is Jim Stowell’s Emmy Award winning play based on his travels through Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. This play showcases his Dickensian descriptions, his knack for memorable characters and is an emotional roller coaster. These stories do not make the people of these three countries into distant strangers, completely different than us, but rather recognizes them as neighbors, family and friends, with concerns like our own. When he is done describing the joy of a spontaneous fiesta along the road, the horror of a half-naked child fighting a dog for a piece of gristle and the beauty and the ugliness that exist side by side in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, you’ll feel you know more about those countries and their people’s lives and their resilient human spirit.

Teller Bio:
Learn more at Jim Stowell’s website

Jim Stowell

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.

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.

To register:

  1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
  2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

 

Sufian Zhemukhov “An Immigrant’s Guide to America”

An Immigrants Gide to America

A renowned immigrant scholar is forced to test his own intercultural theories in real life when he immigrates to the United States. Can he survive in the wild among these mysterious species he studied – Americans? The awkward professor goes through painful culture shock and endless missteps before fully assimilating into American society. In this humorous solo show, award-winning author and performer Sufian Zhemukhov will have audiences reevaluate what they thought they knew about Americans.

Sufian ZhemukhovTeller bio: Sufian Zhemukhov is an award-winning author and performer. Sufian’s solo shows have been featured off-Broadway and nationwide. NPR presented his show Flirting Like an American as “a show about romance, culture, and one immigrant’s story” and his show From Russia Without Love as “an escapist James Bond parody.” Sufian’s stories are based on his personal experience as a first-generation immigrant and political analyst, which might be funnier than it sounds. He served as the 2023 Teller in Residence at the International Storytelling Center, received the 2020 JJ Reneaux Emerging Artist Award from the National Storytelling Network, and his research won the 2019 Best Book Award from the International Studies Association.

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.

To register:

  1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
  2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Intermediate Storytelling

Intermediate Storytelling Summer 2025

Focusing on the development of your story beyond the bare bones. Whether it is adjusting the narrative details or crafting the performance, this is a hands-on class to help you tell a better story.

In person, 4 sessions, 7:00-9:00 pm, Wednesdays, June 4 to 25 ~ Taught by Loren Niemi

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.

To register:

  1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
  2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Introduction to Storytelling

Intro to Storytelling Spring 2025

The fundamentals of storytelling: what is a story, how to craft it, and how to tell it. We begin by looking at both personal and traditional stories to learn genres and the narrative forms, then begin making decisions about the particular narrative form you want to use, beginnings/ endings, point of view, the emotional arc of a story, and then practice telling it.

In person, 4 sessions, 7:00-9:00 pm, Thursdays, May 8 to 29 ~ Taught by Loren Niemi

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.

To register:

  1. Add the number of tickets you want by clicking the ‘+’ button
  2. Click the ‘Get Tickets’ button.

Storytelling- Open Mic Mondays May 2025

Story Arts Open Mic

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 partnership of Story Arts of Minnesota and the American School of Storytelling.

NOTE: Starting on March 31, 2025 Hennepin Ave 26th St to Douglas Ave will be under construction. Check our ‘Getting Here’ page for parking options.