Crafting the authentic voice to artfully and truthfully tell our stories.
This half-day hands-on workshop is an immersive dive into creating memorable stories both traditional (folk, fairytale, cultural heritage) and personal (Moth style or longer form) stories. In this workshop we will look at transforming stories – personal and traditional by means of Immersive (point of view and./or description), deconstruction (breaking the story into parts), or […]
This is a mixed genre open mic for open testimony, held on the first Monday of the month to offer our neighbors and fellow citizens a forum to share their stories- what they have witnessed as an observer, or volunteer; how they living with fear, anger, or anxiety in our current cultural and political climate; […]
For decades, Americans and Russians have encountered each other through politics, propaganda, and fear. But what happens when they encounter each other IRL? “An American and a Russian: Exploring the Other” brings together two storytellers—Bernadine, an American, and Sufian, a Russian immigrant—to explore how they have imagined, misunderstood, and sometimes unexpectedly embraced the other. Join […]
A story begins where the teller chooses to start but where is that? And how does that starting moment draw an audience into the world that is the story? While some believe any place we want to start will do, the where it ends cannot be left up to happenstance, failure of imagination or bad […]
Sandbar Storytelling Festival • Winona, MN Join us for this five-day storytelling event. Sandbar Storytelling Festival provides exciting performances and compelling chronicles amidst the breathtaking beauty of Winona, MN. Come celebrate and preserve the power and pleasure of our varied cultural traditions and human experiences. Help us promote the art of storytelling for all ages. […]
Do you have a sense of the basics but want to refine your ability too craft and tell stories? Have you been on the Moth stage and want to expand the stories you tell from 5 to 10 or 15 minutes? Do you have a particular difficult story you have been wrestling with that would […]
FREE EVENT! ‘Coyote and the Thunderbird: New Tales for the Book of Coyote’, wild and wily ”contemporary mythology at its best,” inspired especially by the long tradition of Native trickster storytelling plus the lively Coyote images of the contemporary California Maidu artist Harry Fonseca. Preface by Lewis Hyde, author of ‘Trickster makes this world’. Books […]
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 […]
Henry Kneiszel and See More Perspective will create a unique performance that blends poetry, music, and sound to explore themes related to the changing internet landscape, finding beauty in a strange world, wikipedia, and bugs. Poets will read original work with sound and music woven in for texture. Henry is also a comedian and See […]
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.
This is a mixed genre open mic for open testimony, held on the first Monday of the month to offer our neighbors and fellow citizens a forum to share their stories- what they have witnessed as an observer, or volunteer; how they living with fear, anger, or anxiety in our current cultural and political climate; […]
Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival is a free, day-long community celebration of literature featuring a large book fair, author presentations and panels, children’s activities and programs, a used book […]