Tag: city of fairfax
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Meghann Shutt
Meghann Shutt owns Bridge Consulting, a small consulting firm that provides fundraising and organizational development support to nonprofit and government agencies in Maryland and DC. She is passionate about supporting people and communities in their efforts to make the world a little better than they found it. Meghann is performing in the Women’s Storytelling Festival‘s… Read more
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Vijai Nathan
For more than 20 years, Vijai Nathan has been performing on stages all over the world, but she started preparing to take the microphone much earlier than that. She’s the youngest of three sisters and they grew up imitating their parents to each other. Vijai draws inspiration for both her stand-up comedy and her storytelling… Read more
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Jessica Robinson
When Jessica Piscitelli Robinson called me to say that she was thinking of organizing this “Women’s Storytelling Festival”, my first thought was “of course you are.” Jessica is an impressive storyteller. As Co-Author and promoter of “Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors,” she has already demonstrated a commitment to elevating the female voice. (Proceeds from… Read more
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Jane Dorfman
Jane Dorfman tells traditional, personal, and Celtic stories. Jane performs at festivals, libraries, and schools. She has recently started lying and finds it “very freeing.” Jane is performing in the Women’s Storytelling Festival‘s two lunch time show producers’ storytelling shows at the Auld Shebeen on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Jane runs Voices-in-the-Glen, a MD based… Read more
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Year in Storytelling 2019 edition
2019 might not have been the best year for the world, or our country, but for fans of storytelling in Northern Virginia, it was great. Too many things happened to list them all. But here’s a quick look back. January, 2019 We had two wonderful storytelling shows in January, and one great loss to the… Read more
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Thanksgiving Weekend Storytelling Show
Our final storytelling show of 2019 is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I don’t know about you, but I am thankful to have a place to go where I don’t have to eat pie, buy stuff that’s “on sale,” or talk politics! On November 30, 2019, join Better Said Than Done storytellers at the Auld Shebeen… Read more
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The 2020 Women’s Storytelling Festival
The inaugural Women’s Storytelling Festival, hosted by Better Said Than Done, will take place March 13-14, 2020, in Fairfax, Virginia. Though storytelling festivals have been a popular event in the US for over 40 years, this will be the first ever storytelling festival with a lineup composed exclusively of women. For time, location, other details,… Read more
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Liars at the Fall for the Book Festival
For our Fall for the Book Festival storytelling show this year, we decided to try something a little different – lying. In “True Lies: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them,” our storytellers were told to either share a true story about a lie, or tell an actual lie. At the end, the audience… Read more
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Old School Storytelling
For our last Saturday of the month of September storytelling show at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA, we went “Old School,” with true, personal stories about education, tradition and age. And since we wanted to keep with tradition, we chose the wisest (aka oldest) storyteller we know to host – Sufian Zhemukhov! Our first… Read more
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Andy Irwin’s Fairfax Visit
Last Saturday night, international rogue and nationally renowned storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin, stopped by The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA to sing some songs, quote some poetry, whistle a tune or two, and do some storytelling on our stage. The storytelling show/extravaganza was hosted by Jessica Robinson, who shared a story about her husband and… Read more