Tag: Traditional Stories
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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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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 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…
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NSN 2026 Conference: Prairie Voices
Every year, the National Storytelling Network invites voices from across the globe to come together in celebration of story. In 2026, we’ll gather in the Texas Panhandle, where the sweeping prairies and the grand walls of Palo Duro Canyon set the stage for Prairie Voices – Honoring Heritage, Inspiring Tomorrow. Here, stories will echo across generations—heritage meeting innovation, the…
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Storytelling as Personal Mythology
This four session online workshop explores our relationship to myth(s) both in traditional and personal stories, looking at how myth infuses our being in the world and how it consciously (or not) shapes our storytelling. When we know how myth functions we can make conscious decisions about when and why it can add resonance to…
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2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival
Minnesota Fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression. As the producer of the largest performing arts festival in the Midwest, the annual Minnesota Fringe Festival event fills tens-of-thousands of seats with audiences viewing dozens of works at hundreds of performances by more than 1,000…
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Chris Vinsonhaler “Grendel’s Mama Comes Callin’!”
A Retelling of Beowulf With More Sweet Tea (Based on the poem they made you read in 10th grade). Project website: Beowulf.Live Teller Bio: Chris Vinsonhaler is a translator, storyteller, and medievalist whose work bridges scholarship and live performance. A retired Professor of English at The City University of New York, she brings Beowulf to life…
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Beginning Storytelling
Have you wanted to tell stories? Or better stories? No experience? Some? Heard a Moth program and thought, you could or should try that? This four session hands-on class will give you the basic tools to identify, craft and confidently tell a traditional or personal story. It explores how to identify story seeds from your…
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Braided Stories
Braided stories combine, mix, and mingle traditional and personal material. This matinee performance features three storytellers, three different braids, geared toward an adult audience. Teller Bios: Travis Wolven: Travis accidentally became a storyteller through his use of stories while language teaching to humans across the multiverse of ages and cultures. With an M.A. in Communication…
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Good Medicine
Storytelling fans, do not miss “Good Medicine”. Four gifted tellers are collaborating on this show which explores the things people do to rejuvenate, to heal, to escape the banalities or difficulties of life. Each of these tellers has performed many times at the American School of Storytelling and other venues. Take our word for it,…
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Reimagining Traditional Stories
There is power in the old stories that can show us how to face difficulties and triumph. They can speak to our own time and circumstances. Whether Immersive, deconstructed or braided, these approaches will explore how to reimagine the traditional stories as illuminations of our own lives and meanings to make what is old, new…