Tag: fairfax
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Storyteller Spotlight: Miriam Nadel
Miriam Nadel is an aerospace engineer, craftswoman, blogger, and traveler. She is also the Virginia State Liaison for the National Storytelling Network and on the board of Voices in the Glen. For nearly 30 years, she has told personal stories, folk tales, and original fairy tales at venues ranging from a children’s art gallery to… Read more
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Storyteller Spotlight: Nick Baskerville
Nick Baskerville has had the honor of serving in the United States Air Force for 10 years, followed by 4 years in the United States Air Force Reserves. Nick has 19 years of fire service time, with 16 years of that being in a career department in Northern Virginia. Nick is a member of the… Read more
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A Climate Change in Storytelling
Better Said Than Done’s April storytelling show at The Auld Shebeen in the City of Fairfax, VA was called “Climate Change.” Storytellers Bill Burton, Barbara Fornoff, Robert Lovejoy, Jack Pelar, Jessica Robinson, Margarita Rozenfeld, Sarah Snyder and Sufian Zhemukhov shared true, personal stories about nature, science, and big changes. Sufian Z (as we like to… Read more
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Found: Storytellers’ Photos and Videos
Better Said Than Done’s last Saturday of the month March storytelling show at The Auld Shebeen was called “Lost and Found.” Hosted by Jessica Robinson, storytellers Erin Benbennick, Denise Bennett, David Foxworth, Sandra Hull, Joff Infante, Robert Lovejoy, Miriam Nadel, and Sarah Snyder shared true, personal stories of getting lost, and being found. There are… Read more
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Storytelling On A Winter’s Night
When our storytelling show, “On a Winter’s Night,” ended, I walked around The Auld Shebeen talking to people. I heard over and over again, “This was your best show yet.” After about the 5th time, I said to a group, “I’m a little offended since I didn’t host or tell a story tonight.” When no… Read more
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Storyteller Spotlight: Anne Rutherford
Anne Rutherford: Storyteller, Writer, Coach, Workshop Leader 1999 – present. Anne was a Featured Teller at the National Storytelling Festival as well as Teller in Residence for the International Storytelling Center in Tennessee. She has told at many Storytelling Festivals around the country. Her CD “The Habit of Joy” is a Storytelling World Award winner.… Read more
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Adventure Calling
When I went to Tennessee to perform on the Exchange Place Stage at the National Storytelling Festival in 2018, I didn’t know what to expect. As a performer of true, personal stories for the past 11 years, I was worried that I wouldn’t like the variety of storytelling. Well, there was variety, and it was… Read more
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Peace and Justice Storytelling Show
For Better Said Than Done’s first storytelling show of 2019, we decided to stretch a little – not only in subject matter, but also in style. Normally, all Better Said Than Done shows feature true, personal stories – what many refer to as personal narratives. And as much as this style of storytelling is all… Read more
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God, the Universe, and Storytelling
Our final storytelling show of 2018 was titled “God, the Universe, and Everything.” We decided to go out with a big bang and boy did the storytellers end the year on an awesome note. Our final show, hosted by Nick Baskerville, was at The Auld Shebeen in the City of Fairfax, VA, and included storytellers… Read more
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5th Annual Improv Storytelling
Every year, in late October, the storytellers of Better Said Than Done, gather for an experiment – an experiment that has been so successful we’ve been doing it for five years! In our 5th Annual Night at the Improv, the storytellers made up true, personal stories on the spot, as we’ve done in our 4… Read more