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Jan 16, 2019

The Lonely Hearts Club

We are so excited for the next couple of months to be partnering again with the History Museum to generate some stories and conversations surrounding societal issues (Read more below). What better way to start this collaboration then with the discussion of loneliness and isolation that is inherent in this season. Lonely, party of one - your story's ready for you. Leading up to the manufactured love fest that is Valentine's Day can be hard when you're on your own...Or, in a c

Apr 20, 2018

Sissy's Can of Cashews Podcast

It only seemed fitting to share this story with you today on 4/20... Listen to the podcast of the story Sissy shared with us at our Storycatchers Live: Twist of Fate event about some pot - the cops - and a can of cashews. Listen on Soundcloud HERE Listen on iTunes HERE #storycatchersLive #storycatcherssessions

Mar 22, 2018

Ways to Share Your Story

We have a lot of exciting ways for you to connect with the stories inside you in the coming month, so here's a round up of all of the events announced so far. For our Nonprofit friends, come hang out with us at the Community Foundation to discuss how to share our organizational stories April 3rd. Storycatchers founder Tara Pohlkotte is delighted to be the April through June Artist-in-Residence at the Appleton Public Library. As part of this, she will be hosting two story and

Feb 20, 2018

Afterglow: Fear of Falling

One of my absolute favorite parts of our Storycatchers Live events is the art that is sometimes created in response to the stories and momen

Jan 29, 2018

Patti: New Beginnings Podcast

We had a fantastic kick-off to the new year at our Storycatchers Live: New Beginnings event hosted by and at the Neenah Public Library. We want to say thank you to all of the 14 tellers and 140 audience members who came out on a Saturday afternoon to listen and cheer one another on. A great story came from first time teller, Patti. Listen to the Storycatchers Podcast about how she found herself behind the wheel of her own adventure. :) Don't forget our next live event happeni

Dec 19, 2017

Dan: Holidazed and Confused

We all know them. Our very own resident, Grinch. What happens when the Grinch, who is usually ho-hum about presents gets a gift that no money can buy. Listen to Dan's story told at our Storycatchers Live: Holidazed and Confused event. Music for the Storycatchers Podcast provided by Adriel Denae. Listen to Dan's story on iTunes HERE Listen to Dan's story on Soundcloud HERE #storycatcherscommunity #storycatchersLive #storycatcherssessions

Dec 17, 2017

Ashley: Awkward Family Gatherings Podcast

The Holidays are full of planning and expectations. Storycatchers teller Ashley tells at our 'Awkward Family Gatherings, the Holiday Edition' event about how sometimes it's when those plans and expectations get shaken up that we find ourselves bonded to our families like never before. This podcast is available via iTunes HERE or via Soundcloud HERE Music for the podcast provided by Adriel Denae #storycatcherscommunity #storycatcherssessions #storycatchersLive

Dec 11, 2017

Hannah Holidazed and Confused

We had a fantastic night of telling stories and gearing up for the Holiday season. We couldn't wait to bring you a couple of the great stories shared on Friday. So, here is the story of eleven year old Hannah. Getting a little "too" close to her uncle over the holidays. (You might not want to listen at work.) Listen to Hannah through Soundcloud HERE Or, via iTunes HERE #storycatcherscommunity #storycatcherssessions #storycatchersLive

Dec 6, 2017

Christine: Awkward Family Gatherings Podcast

We are so excited to have our Storycatchers Live: Holidazed and Confused event coming up this Friday! To get us in the spirit, here with her previous story from last years Storycatchers Live: Awkward Family Gatherings Holiday Edition is teller Christine's hilarious and harrowing tale about making it home for the holidays. Check this story out and subscribe to our podcast via iTunes click HERE Click HERE to listen via Soundcloud #storycatchersLive #storycatcherssessions #story

Oct 30, 2017

Things that Go Bump in the Night

'Tis the season: Of pumpkin spice sure, but also skulls, ghouls and a ghost story or two. To help celebrate the season, here is a story from Storycatchers founder, Tara Pohlkotte that she shared at Storycatchers Live: Things that Go Bump in the Night. Also! Did you know that you can download the Storycatchers Podcast from iTunes? So Listen below or head over to iTunes and search for Storycatchers to keep up to date with our latest podcast episodes. Listen HERE for Tara's St

Oct 13, 2017

Community Voices: Margeaux "She's Come Undone"

Books are one of my favorite things. They are more than a past-time, they are passage ways into worlds and even into the people I know, and the people I wish I could be. So, it comes as no surprise at what a treat it has been to tuck into our tellers' stories about the books that have shaped their lives for our Storycatchers Live event happening tomorrow: Literary Upheaval. My love grew even greater as people who could not physically make it to the event itself still reache

Aug 25, 2017

Karen Park: The Trouble With Dogs

Karen takes us into her complicated relationship with dogs....including her dog leaving her for another woman. Listen to the live recording of Karen's story told at Storycatchers Main Stage event in Appleton Wisconsin this past April. You're going to want to listen to this... Listen HERE #storycatchersLive #storycatcherscommunity #storycatcherssessions

Jul 13, 2017

Community Voices: Rachel Crowl

Actress Rachel Crowl shares her stories of coming out transgendered at Storycatchers Live

May 22, 2017

Continuation: Karen * Voices of our Mental Health Community

We have been sharing some of the stories after-the-story if you will, of some of our tellers of our Storycatchers: Voices of the Mental Health Community event in March. For Mental Health awareness month, and because it is important to us that we continue telling our changing stories we've asked our tellers if they would be willing to share some of their experience with us. Karen is no stranger to sharing her story and to building mental health support in our community. We we

May 19, 2017

Continuation: Alisha * Voices from our Mental Health Community

We have been sharing some of the stories after-the-story of some of our tellers of our Storycatchers: Voices of the Mental Health Community

May 15, 2017

Continuation: Kathryn 'Voices of our Mental Health Community'

We've been sharing 'Motherhood' stories this week, and honoring Mental Health Awareness Month by sharing our community mental health stories - so I could think of no better way to tie those themes together than Kathryn's brave and honest story of her daughter's filicide and the aftermath of loving and learning through it all. Read on to hear from Kathryn her thoughts after telling her story publicly for the first time and listen to a live recording of her story. Why did you

May 8, 2017

Continuation: Nick Voices from our Mental Health Community

One of my favorite parts of stories is that they are never done. Once we have told them, they shift and our past continues to be shaped by our future experiences. That is why I wanted to start a "Storycatchers: Continuation" series, to capture the way our stories shift, grow or contract after we have told them. I could think of no better way to kick this series off than to check in with some of the tellers from our March Storycatchers: Voices from our Mental Health Community

Apr 10, 2017

Afterglow: "Why?"

As I've said before, I love capturing the swirl of emotion, creativity and sense of community that comes from attending our Storycatchers Live events. There's something that happens individually and collectively when we show up in these story spaces, both intimate and universal that takes us places with these 100 other people that we otherwise might not have gone. I'm so grateful when people share what they've been mulling over since they left our seats, and these thoughts an

Apr 9, 2017

Afterglow: What I Want is a Story to Tell

One of my favorite parts of doing our Live events is how stories create MORE stories. How by coming together to share our experiences, we create a new shared experience. It's this very reason we've started the Storycatchers Live Afterglow series - to capture the beauty and significance that telling our stories brings to both the tellers and the audience that hears them. Storycatchers' own Katie Chicquette Adams penned this beautiful poem when she got home tonight, and it per

Apr 7, 2017

Meet the Tellers: Jordan Brown and Katie Chicquette Adams

We have been introducing you to the tellers who will be stepping up to the microphone for our April 8th Main Stage event. Tickets are available and will serve as a fundraiser to help support Storycatchers' mission and programming. You can buy your tickets HERE. Jordan Brown If I was to give out an award Jordan would win... not most improved, because from the minute he walked in with his story and read at our first Storycatchers Live event, I knew he was a born writer - but pe

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