Tag: storytelling workshop
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Fall Storytelling Workshops
In addition to our classic half day storytelling workshop focused on the art of crafting a true, personal story – Spotlight on You – we’ve added a new half day workshop! Spotlight on You Too is for storytellers who have already taken our Spotlight on You class and want to take it to the next… Read more
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Storytelling Workshops in September
Our virtual storytelling workshops return in September. In addition to our classic half day storytelling workshop focused on the art of crafting a true, personal story – Spotlight on You – we’ve added a new half day workshop, for graduates! Spotlight on You Too is for storytellers who have already taken our Spotlight on You… Read more
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Old School Storytelling
For our last Saturday of the month of September storytelling show at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA, we went “Old School,” with true, personal stories about education, tradition and age. And since we wanted to keep with tradition, we chose the wisest (aka oldest) storyteller we know to host – Sufian Zhemukhov! Our first… Read more
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Storyteller Spotlight: Jack Scheer
Jack Scheer has been telling stories with Better Said Than Done since 2015. Prior to that, he spent nearly three decades telling other people’s stories as an actor and director in community theater, performing with groups including the Vienna Theatre Company, McLean Theatre Alliance, Kensington Arts Theatre, Rockville Musical Theatre, and the Music and Drama… Read more
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Fairy Dust Stories
Our first regularly scheduled storytelling show of the year – the last Saturday of the month at The Auld Shebeen in the City of Fairfax, VA – was “Fairy Dust: stories of dreams and illusions.” I always love to find out how storytellers will interpret a theme, and this one was especially fun. We got… Read more
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Storytellers Workin’ It
Host Jennifer Greene and storytellers Jack Scheer, Miriam Nadel, Richard Barr, Holly Seibold, Jack Pelar, Tracy Cody and Robert Lovejoy worked hard in our April spoken word storytelling show at The Auld Shebeen in downtown Fairfax, VA. In “Gettin’ Busy: stories of work, chores and business time” storytellers shared true, personal stories about everything from… Read more
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Storytellers of Love and Marriage
In Love & Marriage,” our February spoken word storytelling show at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA, storytellers Jack Scheer, Marie Turner, Dustin Fisher, Sheila Arnold Jones, Susan Gordon, Len Kruger, Miriam Nadel, and Nick Baskerville shared true personal stories about, well, about love and/or marriage. It was a fantastic night of storytelling and I… Read more
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Fall for the Book Storytelling 2017
Better Said Than Done once again participated in George Mason University’s Fall for the Book Festival this October. First, storytelling teachers Jessica Robinson and Mary Supley Foxworth led a presentation called “Where to Begin,” covering that impossible question of so many tackling true, personal stories – where to begin, and how to end. Mary and… Read more
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Storytelling Science Fair for Nature
Better Said Than Done storytellers shared true, personal stories on the theme of “Science Fair: stories of science, nature and fairs,” at our annual fundraising event for the Walker Nature Center in Reston, VA. While the audience got to listen to stories that proved life is better in the telling, we raised over $650 for… Read more
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Science and Nature House
At our annual fundraising night for the Walker Nature Center in Reston, VA, Better Said Than Done storytellers shared true, personal stories on the theme of “Science Fair.” More importantly, we raised over $650 for the Nature House. What a fun way for people to donate money to a great cause. What a great reason… Read more