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Celebrate First Night w/ massmouth
Event Details
Time: December 31, 2011 from 8pm to 9:45pm
Location: Hynes Convention Center
Street: 900 Boylston St.
City/Town: Boston,Mass
Website or Map: http://www.firstnight.org
Event Type: first, night, story, slam
Organized By: andrea lovett
Latest Activity: Dec 30, 2011
Event Description
massmouth has been invited back to celebrate First Night 2012 with two Story Slams.
We'll say hello to 2012 with two, back to back story slams:
8PM to 9:45PM
and
9:45pm to 11PM
at Boston’s biggest party, First Night!
The theme for stories is "the end" OR you may bring a story on any prompt* from any Season III story slams.(emergency,supernatural,wheels, pranked, idol, where I'm from, and gifts) Bring your story or sit back and listen to some of Boston's best storytellers along with new voices and tellers right out of the audience.
People with a 4 minute story on the theme "the end " or any of the season's themes will practice their stories and then drop their names in the “hat”. 10 lucky tellers will be drawn at random to tell in each slam .
Both story slams were standing room only last year so come early to get a seat.
On April 11, 2012, 7-9PM All the finalists will gather at Coolidge Corner, main Theater to compete for a week in a medeival townhouse in Tuscany and other prizes.
massmouth will award the lucky winner of this contest with a fabulous prize. If you've lived it, you have a story. Bring it.
Details to follow...
About story slams
Like a poetry slam, a story slam is a performance based contest where volunteer judges choose the best true story on the theme. Anyone may sign up at the venue for a chance to tell their true, 5-minute, first- person narrative and a lucky 8-10 tellers will be chosen at random to perform their stories.
About First Night
First Night, Inc. is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to building community and celebrating diversity through the arts. With 35 years under its belt, the organization has grown into an internationally-renowned festival presenter and more – delivering high-quality arts programs to large diverse audiences, offering vital arts education opportunities to underserved children and teenagers, and providing unique planning and production services to the field.
Listen to our podcasts at iTunes and podcast webpage. And check out our video archive to get an idea about 5 minute stories http://massmouth.ning.com/video
COMING SOON: see eventbrite to reserve tix for the FINALS below
On April 11, 2012, 7-9PM All the finalists will gather at Coolidge Corner, main Theater to compete for a week in a medeival townhouse in Tuscany and other prizes.
Listen to our podcasts at iTunes and podcast webpage. And check out our video archive http://massmouth.ning.com/video
http://massmouth.ning.com/forum/topics/story-slam-rules-pr-what-is
http://massmouth.ning.com/forum/topics/way-to-be-sure-to-tell-at-a
Other massmouth slams this season:
Mondays: Club Passim in Cambridge, MA and Semi finals in March 2012
Tuesdays: Somerville, Cambridge and other venues Semi-finals in March 2012
Semi Finals: in March 11th for JP events
Finals: WED APRIL 11th the Finals will be at Coolidge Corner Theater main theater Brookline, 7-9PM
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How to Request massmouth storytellers
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Click on the link above or here to access a simple request form. Also, you may go to our member page and use "advanced search" to search members profiles by key words: genre, age range etc.
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Our Generous Supporters:
massmouth thanks our kind supporters-see list below
Michele Carlo, storyteller and writer of "Fish out of Agua" donating a 3 hour session as a BigMouthOff Prize
Johnny D's
Chipolte
J.P.Licks
EnormousRoom
Fairchild Electric
Ryles Jazz Club
Harvard Book Store
Story Book Cove
Massachusetts Artist Leadership Coalition
Porter Square Books
Russo's
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BMO 2013 Winners
Scott Schultz, 1st prize, Katie Liesener, 2nd and Rob Goldman, 3rd Prize
StoriesLive® Winners - 2012
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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