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Women’s Storytelling Festival – Teller Spotlight 4
The Women’s Storytelling Festival is nearly here! We’re nearly at the Thursday night virtual kickoff, followed by three days of terrific telling in fabulous city of Fairfax, VA. All told there will be twenty-one amazing women sharing their wit, wisdom, skill and power during the fest. You can read all about them here! Follow this… Read more
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Women’s Storytelling Festival – Teller Spotlight 3
The Women’s Storytelling Festival is getting closer! Preparations behind the scenes are at a fever pitch as the festival committee works diligently on all the last-minute details. We’ll be welcoming, both in person and virtually, twenty-one amazing female storytellers. We’ve collected all of their bios here for you to peruse. Details and tickets here! This… Read more
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Women’s Storytelling Festival – Teller Spotlight 2
The Women’s Storytelling Festival is getting closer by the day! Our fifth annual gathering starts Thursday, March 14th with our online kickoff show and runs through Sunday, March 17th in Fairfax, VA. Festival details and tickets are right here! Today we’re bringing you the second installment of our “get to know the tellers” posts. I… 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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A Review of 2023 and a Look Ahead
This is a reprint of our December 22, 2023 newsletter. Click Here to subscribe to our newsletter. 2023 is coming to an end. As per custom, I looked back at all our shows of the past year while compiling our Year-in-Review video. As is custom, I cried many times while editing the footage together. In… Read more
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Storyteller Spotlight: Jessica Robinson
Jessica Robinson is the founder of Better Said Than Done, Northern Virginia’s premiere storytelling troupe. In addition to performing at Exchange Place at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN in 2018, Jessica has performed stories for Story District, Tales in the Village, The Grapevine, Stories in the Round, Perfect Liars Club and GMU’s Fall for the… Read more
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Storyteller Spotlight: Norm Brecke
Norm Brecke: Storyteller, Teacher, Workshop Leader 2002 – present. Norm Brecke is a spirited storyteller who loves a good story. He was a teacher for fifteen years and told daily in his classroom as well as teaching storytelling to intermediate students. Norm has told stories from Vancouver, BC to Los Angeles, CA. He’s been a featured… 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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No Leftovers Here
In Better Said Than Done’s last storytelling show of the year, “Leftovers: stories of gluttony, forgotten things, and do overs,” our storytellers left no doubt about what makes us the “Best Performing Arts Company” in NoVa. The packed audience, at The Auld Shebeen, got to hear stories that ranged from heartfelt to hysterical. Mike Kane… Read more
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Mayday storytelling show
The Better Said Than Done storytellers sent out cries for help in this past week’s storytelling show at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA. They say a photo is worth a thousand words, and for the many thousands of words in this blog we have to thank Bart Robinson. Unfortunately, looking at photos of storytellers… Read more