Tell me a Story:
Had a really large time tonight at The Porchlight storytelling series hosted by the unparalleled Beth Lisick, poet and artistic force that I’ve shamlessly modeled my career after.
My thinking is that San Francisco is not the only place this sort of thing, so if you think live storytelling might be your kind of thing (and believe me it is if you A) read a lot B) Are into words, performance and narrative or C) Are into human nature)…
1) Find out if Fray Day, a live celebration of personal storytelling, is happening in your city next month.
2) There are annual storytelling festivals all over the country. How about in your hometown?
3) Troll through Storyteller.net. There’s lots there.
I took a storytelling class once and sadly, there seems to be a great divide between first person, confessional storytelling and performance storytelling which sticks to folk tales, legends and “carrying on the oral tradition.”
Sounds like a bridge waiting to be built.