Tag: Storyteller
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Intermediate Storytelling
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…
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Beginnings & Endings- Online
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…
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James Lenfestey: Coyote and the Thunderbird
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…
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An American and a Russian: Exploring the Other
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…
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Storytelling- Open Mic Mondays December 2026
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…
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Storytelling- Open Mic Mondays November 2026
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…
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Storytelling- Open Mic Mondays October 2026
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…
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Ole & Lina Will Never Die
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 add their favorites into the mix. Loren Niemi is an innovative storyteller creating, coaching/directing, performing, producing, teaching and writing about stories that matter for audiences…
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Story Arts of Minnesota 2026 Annual Membership Meeting
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 are germinating but need more volunteer energy to sprout and flourish. Bring your own ideas for fruitful action to advance SAM’s dual mission of promoting…
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Ghost Story Workshop- Online
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 work. In the second session you should bring your favorite tale to share and learn how to tailor it to augment its “things that go…