Tag: Andrea Young
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WSF 2022: Who They Are, Part I
Just a few more days until the 2022 Women’s Storytelling Festival, and those of us working behind the scenes are kicking into high gear to make sure it’s the best fest imaginable! A big part of our preparations is getting ready to welcome the amazing artists who will be descending on Fairfax in a few… Read more
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Travel Tales, In-Person & Virtual!
Summer’s here and while this particular season is not without a bit of uncertainty, a lot of folks are hitting the open road, heading to treasured getaway spots, or exploring new places. So it seems like a great time for the intrepid wayfarers of Better Said Than Done to talk about some of their most… Read more
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Travel Tales
On July 31, 2021, join storytellers Sheila Arnold, Nick Baskerville, Bonnie Gardner, Tim Livengood, Miriam Nadel, Andrea Young, and Sufian Zhemukhov for “Travel Tales,” both in-person at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA and live streaming online.PLEASE NOTE THE TIME FOR THIS SHOW IS 7:00PM EDT. The Live Show is Over but you can purchase… Read more
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Women Storytellers of the DMV
Many of our Women’s Storytelling Festival tellers – including several we’ve already highlighted – are already well known in the DMV. That’s DC, Maryland, and Virginia, not the Department of Motor Vehicles. Here are some of our local heroines. Sarah Brady is based in Virginia, but recently spent three years in the U.K. Her repertoire… Read more
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9 Ladies to Lead You
“It’s usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide,” is sound advice British actress Jane Birkin once said. Throughout the 24 hours of stories at the 2021 Women’s Storytelling Festival, these nine excellent emcees will be the local tour guides for the audience (which is you of course! You have your… Read more
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Our Emcees!
An integral part of the Women’s Storytelling Festival will be the emcees for each event. Six storytellers from our Better Said Than Done community have stepped up to take on those duties. Each one a gifted and engaging teller in her own right, I asked what drew them to storytelling in the first place. For… Read more