Tag: womens storytelling festival

  • Women Storytellers of the DMV

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    Many of our Women’s Storytelling Festival tellers – including several we’ve already highlighted – are already well known in the DMV. That’s DC, Maryland, and Virginia, not the Department of Motor Vehicles. Here are some of our local heroines. Sarah Brady is based in Virginia, but recently spent three years in the U.K. Her repertoire… Read more

  • Storytellers Closing the Distance

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    One great thing that has come out of the past year is the ability to see storytellers who don’t live in (or travel to) our local stages. Some of the tellers in the virtual Women’s Storytelling Festival live just a few hours away, some live a few time zones away, and some have spent time… Read more

  • 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

  • Meet the Festival Tellers, Again

    The 2nd annual Women’s Storytelling Festival is approaching rapidly and we’re looking forward to bringing you 36 of the best women storytellers anywhere.  Some are familiar to our Better Said Than Done audiences, while others are brand new to our (virtual) stage.  Let’s start with the tellers who are returning from last year’s inaugural festival:… Read more

  • 9 Ladies to Lead You

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    “It’s usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide,” is sound advice British actress Jane Birkin once said. Throughout the 24 hours of stories at the 2021 Women’s Storytelling Festival, these nine excellent emcees will be the local tour guides for the audience (which is you of course! You have your… Read more