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We had money left over in Mr. Coffee last week, so I get to give away three more annual memberships to the Swedish Club 🙂
Thank you all for your generosity. It’s what keeps our show going. I put your donations right back into annual Swedish Club memberships that I give away both after the show and later in the month.
So email me directly at freshgroundstories at gmail dot com if you’d like to be on the list to get a free membership. You have until Sunday night at 6pm to get your name in. After that, I’ll roll some of my son’s D&D dice and choose three people to get an annual membership to the club that has the best view in town of Lake Union and tons of free parking.
Thanks to everyone who came out to last Thursday’s show. I was thrilled to see so many first-timer tellers! They were a big part of the show that night, and I hope they all come back and become regulars.
Once again, I am writing this without my notes so I won’t be able to talk specifically about how each story touched me. So if you missed the show, you’ll just have to believe me when I say there were a lot of magical moments on stage that night.
We even had a surprise visit from our friend Kent Whipple from Unexpected Productions. He was there to support two of his students who had just graduated from his storytelling class. Did those students do a great job? Of course they did! There were actually three former students of his onstage that night and they all did great. Thank you, Kent, for sending such great tellers out into the world.
If you can’t wait for our next show on October 16 (theme: Comfort Zones) you can hang out in the audience with me on October 4 at the Kirkland Performing Arts Center, where I’ll be watching two of my favorite tellers, Emily Pitts and Paul Barach, do their solo shows at the very first Umbrella Fringe Festival. These two are FGS regulars, and I’m so happy to see them get spots in the Umbrella Festival doing full 45-minute shows. Tickets for both shows are free.
Paul’s show: “You Will Forget This” – A Pacific Crest Trail Journey @ 3:30 pm
I hope some of you are working on stories for the next FGS show. I’m looking forward to hearing stories of how you got out of your comfort zones. I’ll get the official meetup invite out as soon as I can. I’m always happy to help with stories over the phone, so write me directly at freshgroundstories at gmail dot com to set up a call.
I hope you’re all working on stories for this Thursday’s show. If you’re looking for a place to work out your story in front of an audience, I highly recommend my new favorite open mic in South Seattle. It’s this Monday at the Royal Room at 5000 Rainier. This is one of the places I work on new stories. The audience is great, the emcee is wonderful, and you get a full 10 minutes to work with.Â
If you’re looking for inspiration, here’s a story from one of my favorite tellers, Micaela Blei. I’ve never seen her live and don’t know anything about her, but I always look for new stories from her.
I worked with three FGS tellers today, and I had a great time hearing stories from their lives. I can’t wait to hear them live. I’m free until Wednesday to help anyone over the phone with a story you’re working on. Write me directly at freshgroundstories at gmail dot com to set up a call.
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One of the best tellers and coaches anywhere just opened up his latest storytelling class, and you should sign up ASAP cos this thing fills up fast. He didn’t ask me to share this, but I can’t not tell you about it.
Kent Whipple has sent dozens of amazing tellers to our show after graduating from his eight-week class. I have no idea what he does in those eight Saturdays, but everyone who attends comes away a better teller.
If you want to save years of sweat and strain trying to figure out the art of personal storytelling, take this class.
As much as I love helping people one-on-one over the phone, and how much I’ve seen people grow from going to our free monthly online workshop, there’s nothing that compares to spending eight weeks with a master storyteller sharing everything he knows about stories.
Sorry for the pushy sales pitch, but this class fills up fast because it has a great reputation in Seattle. I get no kickback or reward from sending this other than knowing that a bunch of folks are going to go out into the world two months from now and tell some sweet, funny, beautiful stories.
I hope to see a bunch of you at FGS on the 18th. The theme is Lessons Learned (although themes are just suggestions, and you can tell a story about anything as long as it follows our usual rules & guidelines)
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I can’t believe I forgot to mention that we had enough money left over in Mr. Coffee that I can give away more annual memberships. I must be loopy from the heat.
I do have enough to pay for three more annual memberships, though, so email me directly if you’d like a chance to get one (Meetup doesn’t always get replies to me).
I’ll collect names over the next three days and add them to The Big List. Friday at 7 pm, I’ll borrow my son’s D&D dice to randomly select three lucky people to get a free annual membership to the club with the best view in town (plus free parking!)
Thank you all so much for your continued donations after the show. It’s the thing that allows us to keep sharing stories and making friends. Fresh Ground Stories will always be free to attend and tell a story. You don’t need to be a member to come to the show. Memberships just guarantee we have a clean, safe place to do it.
If you’d like to get a membership on your own, you can go to the club’s website and sign up there. Remember to get the social membership that’s only $50/year.Â
Thanks again for everything you do to support Fresh Ground Stories, whether it’s becoming a member of the Swedish Club or coming out to laugh and applaud for the folks onstage.Â
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