* MI Story +
Storytelling Event Calendar
www.MichiganStorytelling.org
Free Since 2001
Judy Sima Editor
All events are located in Michigan unless otherwise noted.
Submission: Judy@JudySima.com by the 15th of the month.
All events are located in Michigan unless otherwise noted.
Submission: Judy@JudySima.com by the 15th of the month.
July 1, 2020
Highlights
Life and storytelling have certainly changed since the April/May edition of MI Story as face to face storytelling meetings, concerts, programs, and conferences began to cancel. On the bright side many storytellers and storytelling groups have shown creative resilience by presenting virtual concerts, workshops, and conferences. One advantage to these virtual events is that you can view and participate in storytelling experiences all over the world without leaving the safety of your home! Storytellers are adjusting and MI Story is adjusting.
Many storytellers throughout Michigan and the rest of the country rely on storytelling as their sole source of income. Due to the coronavirus, all live storytelling events have been canceled. Please consider making a donation to the Storytellers Relief Fund through the National Storytelling Network: https://storynet.org/storyteller-relief-fund/ Visit this sight to make a donation and learn what expenses your donation will cover
Visit this page to discover more about live and virtual storytelling events in Michigan.
https://www.facebook.com/mistorytelling/ If you are an active member in the Michigan storytelling community please share this link and our monthly events on your personal and business Facebook pages to help spread the word about all of the wonderful work we're doing in Michigan.
https://www.facebook.com/mistorytelling/ If you are an active member in the Michigan storytelling community please share this link and our monthly events on your personal and business Facebook pages to help spread the word about all the wonderful work we're doing in Michigan. Contact me to promote your Public Virtual Storytelling Events
Book-A-Workshop with Award Winning Storyteller, Author, Teaching Artist: Judy Sima - now offering personalized, interactive, fun filled Storytelling Workshops for individuals and families. Capture Family Stories before they disappear. Workshops are conducted on Zoom. For more information email: Judy@JudySima.com.
JUNE
June 19 at 8:00 p.m. EDT
Watch the DVD "Once More with Feeling,”Were you there? My concert filmed at ātac: downtown arts + music in 2013 will be shown on June 19th, via YouTube streaming. This video captures me in front of a sold out crowd, with a full band and many special guests, including a young Hayley Reardon. Relive the magic and excitement of that night from the comfort of your own home as I answer questions and give commentary in the YouTube chat room.The show is free but donations will be accepted. A portion of the money donated will be given to ātac: downtown arts + music. Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O91mL_e503Y
June 20, 2:00 p.m. PDT 5:00 p.m. EDT ZOOM
"Virtual Storytelling & Magic Series - Summer 2020." Inglewood Public Library featuring Storyteller Antonio Sacre. www.library.cityofinglewood.org. For more information and link to attend Contact: Pamela Greene. pgreene@cityofinglewood.org. The weekly Saturday events are free and open to the public.
June 21, 2:00 p.m. EDT
Mother Goose and Gander will be on the Kerrytown Market and Shops FaceBook Page, once a week, with a short program, geared to a preschool audience, sharing rhymes and stories. For more information contact Trudy Bulkley 734-769-3115. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/99965546438/posts/10157273430701439/
June 21, 7:00 p.m. EDT ZOOM
Passim Streams: Don White on Father's Day Stream at: https://www.facebook.com/clubpassim/live/
You can also sign in on Zoom and be a part of the show! Limited access!. Meeting ID: 938 3467 5144
Password: DWPassim. Donate: http://passim.org/stream. Suggested donation: $25. Watch Don White perform from home during this time of social distancing! Donations will be split between the artist and Passim.
June 23, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EDT, Zoom
Story Arts of MN holds an online Story Circle (open mic) on the fourth Tuesday of each month. This FREE event is open to everyone. After registering, you'll receive an email message with the Zoom link. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/story-arts-of-minnesota-17294067957. Bring your favorite seven-minute tale and your listening ears. All stories are welcome, including traditional tales as well as original true stories. Both experienced and new storytellers are welcome. We ask that you offer content warnings if the story might be challenging, and that you let others know if they can retell it. If you'd like to reserve a spot to tell, please email us at storyartsmn@gmail.com. Don't have a story to share? We invite you to watch and listen. (This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.)
June 23, 6:00 p.m. EDT
Desserts by the Decade! Experience a tasty trip to the past—this time to the 1940s! The Greatest Generation manned warships, piloted aircrafts, and held down the home front while World War II raged. Join us via Zoom to learn how food rationing and pop culture shaped the food and recipes of the 1940's. Register to receive Zoom link: http://chelsea.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=15415&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/07/01
June 25, 6:00- 6:30 p.m. EDT. Zoom
Register in advance to attend this Virtual Children Workshop aged 8 to 12 years old. Children will laugh, learn, create, and share stories. Presented by Educator/Storyteller/Author/Workshop Presenter Mary Johnson Grant Sponsored by www.casoegroup.org call to register 313- 656- 4600 Please join me this summer!! Since this is all ZOOM, anyone can join!
June 25 7:00-8:30 p.m. EDT ZOOM
The Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild is pleased to announce that Story Night will move to the virtual world in a ZOOM concert that will also be livestreamed to Facebook. Our new quarterly format will include the best local and regional storytellers. Register in advance for this meeting: https://tinyurl.com/yac77xj9
June 25, 7:00 p.m. EDT
Have you ever looked around beautiful downtown Ann Arbor and wondered, "What was there?" Find out by joining local historian Patti Smith for an online, interactive history walk. Learn about the "red light district" on Fourth Avenue, the first courthouses, the old fire station, the businesses that lined Main Street and so much more! Patti will record vignettes at various historical stops and then you watch them together, with time for questions throughout. Instructor: Patti Smith is an Ann Arbor townie, special education teacher, storyteller and author of Images of America: Downtown Ann Arbor, Vanishing Ann Arbor and the forthcoming Michigan Beer HistoryTour of Downtown Ann Arbor! Sign up here: https://apm.activecommunities.com/aareced/Activity_Search
June 25, 7:00 p.m. EDT ZOOM
Storytelling Arts of Indiana presents; Song Writer, Storyteller, Humorist, Don White. The show will be streamed on youtube from ZOOM https://youtu.be/iyqy4HKduYs but friends of Don and/or Storytelling Arts of Indiana will be able to be in the interactive z-oom concert by this link or access information: Join Zoom: Meeting ID: 856 6803 6992. Password: 965401. The show is free but donations will be accepted. A portion of the money donated will be given to the Storytelling Arts of Indiana. There will be an after-party with a story circle. There may even be a surprise guest!
June 27, 2:00 p.m. PDT 5:00 p.m. EDT ZOOM
"Virtual Storytelling & Magic Series - Summer 2020." Inglewood Public Library featuring The Wacko Magic Show. www.library.cityofinglewood.org. For more information and link to attend Contact: Pamela Greene
pgreene@cityofinglewood.org. The weekly Saturday events are free and open to the public.
June 27, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. CDT Session One
Storytelling Webinar Workshop from award-winning teacher of Storytellers, Elizabeth Ellis.
- "I Don't Have Anything to Tell About" Syndrome
- The How and Why of Story Boarding for Story Construction
- Types of Listener Response and How To Create Them
- Privacy Issues: Yours and Theirs
- Personal Private vs. Personal Public Stories
- Maintaining Control of Emotional Material
- Developing Believable Characters
- Universality of Appeal
- Use of Humor in Oral Narrative
- The Prophetic Voice or Teaching Without Preaching
- Baiting the Hook: the Opening
- Satisfying the Heart: the Closing
The webinar is $100 for Tejas Storytelling Association members or $135 for non-members. The location will be online with ZOOM at www.zoom.us The proceeds benefit the Tejas Storytelling Association.
Register here: A Power-Packed Workshop on Personal Storytelling or call 940-380-9320 and ask for Beverly to register over the phone. You may pay with a check if it is received by the registration deadline: Friday, June 26 at noon. More information on Elizabeth Ellis at www.elizabethellis.com
June 28, 2:00 p.m. EDT
Mother Goose and Gander will be on the Kerrytown Market and Shops FaceBook Page, once a week, with a short program, geared to a preschool audience, sharing rhymes and stories. For more information contact Trudy Bulkley 734-769-3115. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/99965546438/posts/10157273430701439/
June 28, 2:00 p.m. EDT, Zoom
The Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild monthly meetings will be held on Zoom until further notice. These meetings are open to the public. Come, join us, share stories and conversation. These meetings are facilitated by Leif Larsen, and AASG members, and are held on the fourth Sunday each month and are currently scheduled online through December. The link for all of the meetings is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84345037477?pwd=cVdMaVVOcXUzZHBYVElTL3M5U0JKdz09
JULY
July 2, and July 9, at 6:00- 6:30 p.m. EDT. Zoom
Register in advance to attend this Virtual Children Workshop aged 8 to 12 years old. Children will laugh, learn, create, and share stories. Presented by Educator/Storyteller/Author/Workshop Presenter Mary Johnson Grant Sponsored by www.casoegroup.org call to register 313- 656- 4600 Please join me this summer!! Since this is all ZOOM, anyone can join!
July 5, 2:00 p.m. EDT
Mother Goose and Gander will be on the Kerrytown Market and Shops FaceBook Page, once a week, with a short program, geared to a preschool audience, sharing rhymes and stories. For more information contact Trudy Bulkley 734-769-3115. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/99965546438/posts/10157273430701439/
July 12, 2:00 p.m. EDT
Mother Goose and Gander will be on the Kerrytown Market and Shops FaceBook Page, once a week, with a short program, geared to a preschool audience, sharing rhymes and stories. For more information contact Trudy Bulkley 734-769-3115. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/99965546438/posts/10157273430701439/
July 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. CDT Session Two
Webinar with Elizabeth Ellis (see June 27 above
July 11, 2:00 p.m. PDT 5:00 p.m. EDT ZOOM
"Virtual Storytelling & Magic Series - Summer 2020." Inglewood Public Library featuring Storyteller Karen Golding. www.library.cityofinglewood.org. For more information and link to attend Contact: Pamela Greene. pgreene@cityofinglewood.org. The weekly Saturday events are free and open to the public.
July 11, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EDT. Facebook and Zoom
Living Room LIVE, Session #3! ANTONIO ROCHA will be the featured storyteller for the July edition of Living Room LIVE! a monthly online storytelling event that features the best storytellers from the region, and around the world. Antonio is an award winning internationally acclaimed storyteller and mime. He has been featured at The Ark storytelling festival, and premier venues throughout the world. There will be a limited Studio Audience on ZOOM, and it will also be live streamed on Facebook. Suggested donation of $10. Contact mail@stevedaut.com for details.
July 14, 7:00-8:00 CDT, Zoom
Story Arts of MN holds an online workshop, taught by an experienced storyteller, on the second Tuesday of each month. In July, Loren Niemi will lead a session on ghost stories, “Making Something That Goes Bump in the Night.” What makes for better ghost stories around the campfire? How do you decide what kind of ghost story is right for what age audience? Why should you let imagination do some of the work? Loren will answer those and other questions about the how and why of telling ghost stories. Suitable for any level of experience, the workshop looks at what kinds of ghost stories we tell and what makes them produce a scream or a laugh. This FREE event is open to everyone via Zoom teleconferencing. After registering, you'll receive an email message with the Zoom link. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-something-that-goes-bump-in-the-night-workshop-tickets-109992951880 (This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.)
July 15, 8:00 p.m. EDT. Zoom
Register for the next Michigan Meet-Up: 7 tellers, 7 minutes each, stories of any type, any topic, any stage of development, with a bit of time to chat after. You don't even have to be from Michigan! Contact Jennifer Otto to sign up to tell and/or register for the event. jennifer.pahl.otto@gmail.com. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
July 16, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Join host Patti Smith for a local historical pub crawl that can only happen in the virtual world. In this brave new world, we can travel to bars that only exist in the memories of time--and on Zoom! "Stops" will include places like The Orient, Joe's, Pretzel Bell's, the Del Rio...and a "stop" into Arbor Brewing Company for a ghost story. This tour is for anyone who loves local history, beer, or just wants to "visit" some old timey pubs! For extra fun, pick up some beer from a local brewpub of your choice, and chat about beer styles with Patti. Instructor: Patti Smith is an Ann Arbor townie, special education teacher, storyteller and author of Images of America: Downtown Ann Arbor, Vanishing Ann Arbor and the forthcoming Michigan Beer History. Sign up here: https://apm.activecommunities.com/aareced/Activity_Search
July 18, 2:00 p.m. PDT 5:00 p.m. EDT ZOOM
"Virtual Storytelling & Magic Series - Summer 2020." Inglewood Public Library featuring Storyteller Michael McCarty www.library.cityofinglewood.org. For more information and link to attend Contact: Pamela Greene. pgreene@cityofinglewood.org. The weekly Saturday events are free and open to the public.
July 19, 2:00 p.m. EDT
Mother Goose and Gander will be on the Kerrytown Market and Shops FaceBook Page, once a week, with a short program, geared to a preschool audience, sharing rhymes and stories. For more information contact Trudy Bulkley 734-769-3115. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/99965546438/posts/10157273430701439/
July 25, 2:00 p.m. PDT 5:00 p.m. EDT ZOOM
"Virtual Storytelling & Magic Series - Summer 2020." Inglewood Public Library featuring Storyteller Anglea Lloyd. www.library.cityofinglewood.org. For more information and link to attend Contact: Pamela Greene. pgreene@cityofinglewood.org. The weekly Saturday events are free and open to the public.
PERFORMERS
August 1 - Chazz Ross
August 8 - Izzi Tooinsky
July 26, 2:00 p.m. EDT
Mother Goose and Gander will be on the Kerrytown Market and Shops FaceBook Page, once a week, with a short program, geared to a preschool audience, sharing rhymes and stories. For more information contact Trudy Bulkley 734-769-3115. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/99965546438/posts/10157273430701439/
July 27, 7:00 p.m. EDT
The Lansing Storytellers present Liar's Club Dog Days of Summer Edition, free on Zoom, Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcOytqzwtGdyvImOiR7eMfeXTnd8SsuXhle,
Come hear some tall tales, whoppers and baldfaced lies! If you'd like to tell a 7-10 minute lie contact Mike Cox at mikecox954@gmail.com
July 28, 7:00-8:00 p.m. CDT, ZOOM
Story Arts of MN holds an online Story Circle (open mic) on the fourth Tuesday of each month. This FREE event is open to everyone. After registering, you'll receive an email message with the Zoom link. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/story-arts-of-minnesota-17294067957. Bring your favorite seven-minute tale and your listening ears. All stories are welcome, including traditional tales as well as original true stories. Both experienced and new storytellers are welcome. We ask that you offer content warnings if the story might be challenging, and that you let others know if they can retell it. If you'd like to reserve a spot to tell, please email us at storyartsmn@gmail.com. Don't have a story to share? We invite you to watch and listen. (This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.)
AUGUST
August 8, 7:00 p.m. EDT, ZOOM
You are invited to join the studio audience at Living Room LIVE!. Our featured act is award-winning Affrilachian storyteller LYN FORD! This teller of Home-Fried Tales is renowned for her warmth and wisdom, and she also teaches laughter yoga! You can get a sample of her work, well-seasoned, with joy, hope, and love, at https://storytellerlynford.com/ Please note that due to security concerns, to become a member of the studio audience there is a stepwise process. You start with the Pay What You Can link. After verification, you will receive a registration link with a Captcha checkbox. Upon registration, you will receive the meeting link. To get started as a member of the studio audience for this exciting show, please go to https://tinyurl.com/LRLive2U. Feel free to share this link with anyone and everyone who might be interested!
August 25, 7:00-8:00 CDT, ZOOM
Story Arts of MN holds an online Story Circle (open mic) on the fourth Tuesday of each month. This FREE event is open to everyone. After registering, you'll receive an email message with the Zoom link. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/story-arts-of-minnesota-17294067957. Bring your favorite seven-minute tale and your listening ears. All stories are welcome, including traditional tales as well as original true stories. Both experienced and new storytellers are welcome. We ask that you offer content warnings if the story might be challenging, and that you let others know if they can retell it. If you'd like to reserve a spot to tell, please email us at storyartsmn@gmail.com. Don't have a story to share? We invite you to watch and listen. (This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.)
SEPTEMBER
September 22, 7:00-8:00p.m. CD7 ZOOM
Story Arts of MN holds an online Story Circle (open mic) on the fourth Tuesday of each month. This FREE event is open to everyone. After registering, you'll receive an email message with the Zoom link. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/story-arts-of-minnesota-17294067957. Bring your favorite seven-minute tale and your listening ears. All stories are welcome, including traditional tales as well as original true stories. Both experienced and new storytellers are welcome. We ask that you offer content warnings if the story might be challenging, and that you let others know if they can retell it. If you'd like to reserve a spot to tell, please email us at storyartsmn@gmail.com. Don't have a story to share? We invite you to watch and listen. (This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.)
Judy Sima, Editor
Storyteller, Author, Teaching Artist
Send Subscription requests to:
Judy@JudySima.com
www.JudySima.com
248-635-5310
For storytelling tips and more follow me on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/MIstoryteller
Copyright © 2020 MI Story - Judy Sima, All rights reserved.
| |
