Out with 2024 and in with 2025. It’s such a strange thing, the turning of the year. A few days ago, it was 2024. Now, a few days later, it’s 2025. Yet, each year we treat it as a new beginning, as a new chance to reset. Here’s hoping that 2025 is better than our worst expectations. I can promise that, on the storytelling front, there is a lot of wonderful stuff to look forward to. Since Better Said Than Done is, first and foremost a storytelling organization, let’s focus on that!
Here’s a short video of some of the great storytelling you can expect in 2025. You can find links to details and tickets and registration on our Events Calendar here.
Our storytelling shows and workshops and the Women’s Storytelling Festival in 2025 promise to be fabulous, and we know this because our storytelling workshops and shows and the festival in 2024 were fabulous. You can see a little bit of proof in the pudding, below.
Here’s our 2024 Year in Review Video.
I can write pages and pages about how wonderful each of these storytelling events was, but I keep getting informed that my blog posts are too long, my newsletters are too wordy, even my social media posts are too verbose. So, in an effort to keep it brief, here are just a few short notes to accompany the video.
We hosted several storytelling shows online, as people continue to ask for them. So long as our audience wants storytelling on zoom, we will give them storytelling on zoom. Those shows allow us to work with storytellers across the country, and that is something we all get to benefit from.
We also hosted several storytelling shows in-person. We performed twice at the MLK DC Public Library – once for Women’s History month and once for Halloween month. Also in October, we told some slightly scary stories at Halloween in the Park, for a family friendly event in Loudoun County. We also performed family stories for a children’s event at a country club over the summer. And Laura Packer shared the stage with Carol Moore and myself, Jessica Robinson, in a special concert at The Old Town Hall in Fairfax City, VA. But most of our in-person storytelling was at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack, in Falls Church, VA. We sold out every show and, more importantly, we told and heard diverse and incredible stories. We even had some out of town performers crash our show, including Lona Bartlett, Amanda Lawrence, and Kory May. The best kind of party crashers – talented storytellers!
In workshop news, we hosted our 5 week storytelling course, a short braided storytelling workshop, and our mini class on personal storytelling – all online. But we also worked with some wonderful new corporate clients – presenting as a keynote speaker, leading webinars, teaching full and half day storytelling workshops, and providing coaching to teams.
Read about our workshop offerings here. And thank you to our new-in-2024 clients.
In late 2023, Better Said Than Done was awarded 501c3 status as a nonprofit charity organization. In 2024, we received our first grants. We are so grateful for the support from ArtsFairfax, The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
And just as we are incredibly thankful for the grant awards, we are also grateful for the amazing organizations that sponsored the 2024 Women’s Storytelling Festival. Thank you to Capture Video, Inc., Clare and Don’s Beach Shack, Fairfax City Parks and Recreation, Financial Advantage Associates, Luna River Publishing, Mythics, Tales and Ales, Virginia Storytelling Alliance, and Kim Weitkamp for support The 2024 Women’s Storytelling Festival.
Read about 2025 WSF Sponsorship here.
2024 was a hard year for a lot of people. I am sure 2025 will have its challenges as well. I, for one, am so grateful to have this supportive community to rely on time and time again.
I hope you feel like you have the support of a community. And if you are in search of one, join us at a Better Said Than Done show, or workshop, or the Women’s Storytelling Festival, and see if you like what you hear. We will welcome you. And we hope you’ll join us again.
Find upcoming shows and workshops on our Events Calendar here.
More details, including sponsorship and volunteer opportunities, as well as tickets, about the 2025 Women’s Storytelling Festival here.
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