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Tag: Gwendolyn Napier

  • Women’s Storytelling Festival: Competition

    Jack Scheer

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    With just a week to go, here’s the final blog post to whet your whistle for the Women’s Storytelling Festival, running over the weekend of March 24th to 26th, in Fairfax, VA and streaming on the ol’ World Wide Web! We’re trying something new for this year’s festival. After many requests, we will be holding… Read more

  • People’s Choice Story Contest Tickets

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    The 2023 People’s Choice Storytelling Contest will take place on March 25, 2023 at 4:30pm EASTERN, both in-person at The Old Town Hall in Fairfax, VA, as well as streaming live online. This page is only for purchasing a virtual ticket to watch the online story contest, and only the story contest. If you’d like… Read more

  • Storytelling: The Musical!

    Jack Scheer

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    Musicals are a special and unique genre, one where a mundane task like washing the floor becomes an engaging dissertation on the Hard Knock Life and something as simple as package delivery can rile up a whole town eagerly awaiting the Wells Fargo Wagon. From nearly century-old classics like Show Boat to the hip-hop infused… Read more

  • Storytelling The Musical

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    On October 13, 2022, join storytellers Lona Bartlett, Norm Brecke, Alton Chung, Gwendolyn Napier, Anne Rutherford, and Ed Stivender, and emcee Jessica Robinson, for “Storytelling: The Musical”Online only. Read about the night’s storytellers, and their favorite musicals, here. Read more

  • Gravity

    Jack Scheer

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    When I think of storytelling, I tend to think about how stories touch me. Whether it’s the powerful emotions that can be stirred by someone’s true story or how the imagination is fired up by a rousing fairy tale or adventure yarn, what first comes to mind is how stories make me feel. Seemingly drier… Read more

  • Gravity Tales

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    The recording is now available for purchase! Get a ticket and watch emcee Jessica Robinson and storytellers Charlotte Blake Alston, Claire Hennessy, Tim Livengood, Gwendolyn Napier, Sam Payne, and Kirk Waller in “Gravity: Stories About Science and Nature!” Read more

  • Tip the Tellers 11-28-20

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    The below is for tipping the storytellers in our November 28, 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

  • Aches, Pain, and Injury

    Jack Scheer

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    Join Better Said Than Done this Saturday, November 28th, for our traditional post-Thanksgiving show. The theme this time around is Aches, Pain, and Injury. Our tellers will grapple with, as Hamlet put it, “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.” Tickets are on sale now! But before they delve into their much more… Read more

  • Stories of Aches and Pain

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    On November 28, 2020, join host Ellie Klein, and storytellers Vicki Bryan, Barbara Fornoff, Bonnie Gardner, Darion McCloud, Gwendolyn Napier, Mary Jo Pollack, and Anna Marie Trester for stories of Aches, Pains, and Injury! Read more