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  • Tip the Tellers 11-12-20

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

    The below is for tipping the storytellers in our November 12, 2020 storytelling show. This is NOT for registering. If you’d like to attend the show, you must register here. If you’d like to contribute a little extra to supporting our storytellers, you may tip a particular storyteller or add a tip to be split… Read more

  • Four by Four November

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    On November 12, join host Nick Baskerville and storytellers Adam Booth, Ingrid Nixon, Jessica Robinson, and Donna Washington for four stories, by four storytellers. Read more

  • Black Stories Matter

    Jack Scheer

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    Be sure to join Better Said Than Done on Friday, July 10th at 9 P.M. Eastern Time for Black Stories Matter. Show host and director Nick Baskerville is leading a diverse, talented, and powerful cast of storytellers who will give voice to their experiences of what it means to live Black in our country today.… Read more

  • Recapping the inaugural Women’s Storytelling Festival

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    A month has passed since we hosted the Women’s Storytelling Festival, a first of its kind with a line-up exclusively of women, including hosts, emcees, and storytellers. The festival, was held in the City of Fairfax, Virginia, prior to restrictions on public gatherings due to COVID-19. While we had a smaller audience than anticipated, they… Read more

  • Come As You Are: Storytelling Live, Online

    Jack Scheer

    Please join us (virtually) this Thursday as Better Said Than Done hosts its first live online storytelling show! As the old saying says, the show must go on! We’re eager to connect with our cherished Better Said Than Done community, and to do that we’re taking to the Zoom stage. And while this is done… Read more

  • The Inaugural Women’s Festival Videos

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    Did you miss out on attending the inaugural Women’s Storytelling Festival in early March, in the City of Fairfax, VA? Here’s the good news, you can watch 9 hours of stories from the festival online, until April 6, 2020. Click here for details and to purchase a ticket to join the viewing party. The last… Read more

  • Women’s Festival Spotlight – Donna Washington

    Jack Scheer

    Donna Washington is a professional author, storyteller, and multicultural folklorist who has been sharing stories for more than thirty years. She describes herself as “an extremely animated storyteller who uses vocal pyrotechnics (lots of sound effects and voices), has an elastic face, and employs enthusiastic gesture. I’ve been called a Walking Disney Movie and told… Read more

  • The 2020 Women’s Storytelling Festival

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

    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