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the living art of storytelling in Massachusetts

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Summer Season- 2014

All Star Storytelling Show, July 21 at 7PM- doors at 6:30PM.

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next WORKSHOP Kickbutt Storytelling with Andrea Lovett is in August 25th, 2014

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Each of The Drum's ten annual issues brings you new literature you can weave into your daily life. Listen online or download the audio to listen to on your mp3 player and/or to share with up to five friends.

 

 

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Thanks to all who came to the BIG MOUTH OFF Thu, April 24, 7PM-9PM @Coolidge Corner Theatre

Storytellers, emcees, listeners, volunteers, musicians and all! Thanks to you we all had a great time celebrating the beautiful diversity of human experience through the timeless art of storytelling.

Click on image above to read all about it at our blog.

This is a big deal for storytelling in Boston. In the brand-spanking-new category “Best Storytelling Night” and we we chosen has "Editor's Pick"   at the DigThisAwards 2014 in DigBoston.com! Thanks to the editors all our friends and fans who voted. Click on image below to see the MOTH, Johnny D's, Club Passim, Coolidge Corner Theater who also won awards!

BEST DARWINIAN STORYTELLING ARBITER 

m a s s m o u t h, i n c. 
" With a new storytelling or over-sharing night seemingly starting at a coffee shop every month, we’re stoked to see Massmouth lending some structure to the scene and weeding out the suckers through its kickass slams. A nonprofit we adore for sure. (massmouth.org) "

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Storytelling is front page news in Boston... G section • Globe 12/22/12

thanks to reporter Eugenia Williamson and newest storyteller and now a volunteer as well, Ryan LaPerle!

**Volunteers get into slams for FREE!!!**

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WORKSHOP Kickbutt Storytelling with Andrea Lovett • AUG 25th 2014

Donate to StoriesLive® Scholarship 2012

Now, if we can cover some of massmouth's expenses to raise the money, we will be golden. We run a "lean machine" and are grateful for your support of our fabulous high school storytellers.

 Please Click here to donate, Thanks!

 

Here they are... at last. There will be more to come from story slam season II. And in the upcoming season III podcasts will be posted more like news. Click on the arrow below for more options and to hear the first in a series of 9 podcasts. Also Click on link for iTunes or our podcast webpage for a list of podcasts.

 

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Summer Storytelling Institute with Rona Leventhal at Angel's Rest Retreat Center, Leyden, MA

August 15, 2014 at 9:30am to August 17, 2014 at 4pm
** A Three day intensive in the Art of Storytelling in a beautiful, bucolic location!** Exploration through movement and improv theatre exercises in voice, characterization, imagination, story structure, authenticity, communication and more!** Go home feeling energized with a new story in your hip pocket and skills in your toolbox for work or life!** Time on Saturday to enjoy, relax or work on your story.** Please join us on this fun and useful journey.See More
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Superstition Story Slam at Commercial Club

October 3, 2014 from 7pm to 9pm
Where can you experience a plane crash in the amazon, give birth to quadrpelets and get trapped inside your own sleeping bag, all from the safety of your own chair? At a story slam of course!  Come and share your own out of this world experience or listen to outrageous true tales from The South Shore and beyond. Think you can tell a kick butt story? Come and share your true five minute story for a panel of three to five judges and tell in front of a full house. …See More
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CHROME HEARTS Jewellery Style Fashion BRAND Collection TRENDSOnly Remarkable Type | February twenty, 2014 | Fashion Brand, Prime Only Outstanding Fashion | No CommentsChrome-Hearts-jewelry-fashion-brand-collection-trends-tips-image-3The fame of Chrome Hearts was developed chrome hearts online store on its jewellery line, but right now all method of luxury lifestyle merchandise is available. Moreover to rings,…See More
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Hallucinating Shakespeare - Michael Anderson at Club Café

July 18, 2014 at 7pm to August 2, 2014 at 3pm
Hallucinating Shakespeare Ecstatic rants on the plays withMichael Anderson - slam winning storyteller and Shakespearean riff master nonpareil. Check out the trailer hereMichael Anderson lights up the stage, speaking the speech trippingly on the tongue in the…See More
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Jazz and stories w/Bruce Marcus at New School of Music

July 20, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm
Tonight! Sunday, July 20, 2014, 6:00 PM(Note the early start time)New School of Music25 Lowell St.,Cambridge, MA(off Mt. Auburn Street, directly across from Mt. Auburn Hospital)Free parking in school lot$15 suggested donation(Harvey says less okay for the cash-strapped, in other words: don't let the cost deter you!)Jazz trio: Harvey Diamond,piano James Merenda, saxJon Dreyer, bass…See More
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Because you have a life, you have a story!!

 
 
 

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BMO 2014 Winners

Vanessa Ouellette, 1st prize, Simon Moody, 2nd and Theresa Okokon, 3rd Prize

StoriesLive® Winners - 2014

Freshman/Sophomores/ELL: $500 - 1st place - Mannasseh Konadu

$250 - Runners up - William Lam, Heroldine Blemur, Sabrina Barroso 

Juniors: $1,000 split to Patrick Hoarty and Silas Weiner to tie 1st place

Seniors: $1,000 - 1st Place to Rosemary Nabukeera 
$500 to Marie Pena and Briana Crockett 

Audience Choice – Freshman/Sophomore/ELL: $150 to David Judkins 

Audience Choice – Juniors/Seniors: $300 to Tony Santiago

StoriesLive® 2013:

Sophomores:

Annemarie DeMarco-Alfama - 1st place

Kenny Le & Moises Caraballo - Runner-ups

Juniors:

Latisha Joujute - 1st place

Stephen Carlin & Henry Chavez - Runner-Ups

Kristen Ruffin - Audience Choice

Seniors:

Nico Luisi - 1st Place

Moises Ramirez & Vance Crayton - Runner-ups

Theodore Biv - Audience Choice

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StoriesLive® 2012:

First place, and $1,000  prize

Junior Fernando Ortiz from Revere High School 

Senior Amario Malcolm from Boston Latin Academy

Runners-up ($500 each)11th

Alan Estes from Newburyport, 

AngelinaFerullo from Everett and 

Runners-up ($500 each)12th Caylen Bryant (Andover) 

Shavar Lazarus (Boston Latin Academy).

Audience Choice awards:

11th Justin Alexander 

(South Community High) 

12th Varvarra Valentin

(Lynn Classical High School)

massmouth choice awards:

Juniors 

Jennifer MonJoie(Revere) 

Bahiya Nasuuna (Chelsea) 

Karen Hua (Andover) 

Senior 

Jason Hittinger (Revere)

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Last Year 2011: StoriesLive® first ever high school story slam. 1st place awarded a $2,000 scholarship Brianda Agramonte, Lynn Classical High School, senior

2 runners up received $1,000 scholarship each: junior Conor Miller Newburyport High School and Mathews DeSouza, Everett High School,  Our "massmouth choice" was Sandy Fonseca, Boston Latin Academy, senior [below] She was awarded $500

Lexi Hernando Lynn Classical High School, senior was chosen by the attendees and awarded the Audience Choice prize of $500.

Congratulations all!

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