Introduction to Storytelling
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 […]
Crafting the authentic voice to artfully and truthfully tell our stories.
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 […]
Who doesn’t like telling ghost stories? In the first session, the American School of Storytelling’s Founder, Loren Niemi will tell three types of ghost stories and examine what makes them […]
Join Loren Niemi at FinnFest USA 2026 for “Olie & Lena Will Never Die”, a mix of O & L stories told and commented on, with the audience invited to […]
SAM’s annual membership meeting is open to all current, past, and prospective members. Come to learn what programs and events SAM is engaged in now, and what dreams and ideas […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]