Tag: national storytelling festival
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Storytelling Benefit Concert
Watch the recording of this phenomenal concert on Youtube here. Join Better Said Than Done, Northeast Storytelling/NEST, and Six Feet Apart Productions online on October 6, 2024, for a storytelling concert to raise money to provide relief to those in the path of Hurricane Helene. The concert features storytellers Adam Booth, Alton Chung, Diane Ferlatte,… Read more
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Women’s Storytelling Festival – Teller Spotlight 1
March is here and with it the beginning of Women’s History Month. And here in our sphere the start of the month means we’re just a couple weeks away from the fifth annual Women’s Storytelling Festival! The Festival will bring together twenty-one of the country’s most outstanding female storytellers. You can read all of their… Read more
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Guide to the 2024 Women’s Storytelling Festival
The Women’s Storytelling Festival, produced annually in March by Better Said Than Done, is a festival celebrating Women (including TGNC individuals) Spoken Word Performing Artists. The festival debuted in March 2020 in Fairfax City, VA, and, thanks to the pandemic, set a precedent for our Festivals to be available for audiences both in-person and online.… Read more
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Who Is Andy Offutt Irwin
For fans of storytelling festivals, the title of this blog is verging on blasphemy. Andy is very well-known, in certain circles. And for good reason. But we’ll get to that in a minute. Andy Offutt Irwin is on his East Coast Tour, and he’ll be dropping in to perform with us, on June 9th at… Read more
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From Big Stages to Big Screens
The Women’s Storytelling Festival is only in its second year and counts as a fairly small event on the national storytelling scene. But that doesn’t mean the tellers we are bringing you aren’t big names. Several of our tellers, including all four of last year’s featured tellers who we’ve already introduced you to, have been… Read more
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Jessica Robinson’s Return from the National Storytelling Festival
I recently returned from performing at Exchange Place at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. I want to share every intimate detail of how amazing my weekend there was, but there’s just no way. Find me at a show and ask me about it and I promise to talk your head off. But, for… Read more
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Congratulations Jessica!
Better Said Than Done’s founder Jessica Piscitelli Robinson has been invited to tell a story at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN! And we couldn’t be more proud. I met Jessica about a year ago when I went to her show “Tech Babies”. She told a story for AN ENTIRE HOUR that captivated everyone and… Read more