Who wants to tell a story at Folklife this year?
You know it’s you. Don’t pretend you don’t secretly want to be onstage at one of the biggest festivals of its kind in the country. I hear it gets over 250,000 visitors a year now.
Joanna Demerest, one of our tellers, is the community coordinator for the festival and asked me to send out a quick survey to see who wants to know more about applying to the festival and also to gauge the interest in a 5-week Art of Storytelling workshop she and the Seattle Storytellers Guild are thinking of doing.
The guild has always been supportive of FGS, so I’m happy to pass on any info from them 🙂
Second juicy bit of the week:
We had four tellers on the Moth podcast in the last month. Congratulations Bill Bernat, Jeff Birdsall, Lauren Allen, and Saloni Singh!
They even let Saloni give us a shoutout after her story. Thank you, Saloni 🙂
Third juicy bit:
Monday, I’ll be at the new open mic I talked about in my last email. A friend of mine is going and we’re driving up together from Olympia. The show is a great new place to work on pretty much anything. You can tell a story, read a poem, sing, dance, balance a broom on your nose, whatever you want as long as you do it for less than 10 minutes.
Check out their Meetup page for more info: https://meetu.ps/e/PqWSn/1JtDX/i
That’s all I got for now. I hope to see a bunch of you next Thursday, the 21st. I’m happy to help anyone on a story, so write me directly at freshgroundstories at gmail dot com if you’d like to schedule a call.
Paul
Fresh Ground Stories 