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Apr 5, 2017

Meet the Tellers: Kathryn Gahl and Kathy Vivoda

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. Kathryn Gahl I have known Kathryn since 2013. Appropriately, we met while doing another Live Storytelling event in Milwaukee. I was overjoyed when she moved to the area so we could pick up where we left off - sharing

Apr 1, 2017

Meet the Tellers: Jill Swenson and Jonathon Fernandez

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. Jill Swenson I met Jill this past summer at a Storycatchers writers meetup. She came in with her willingness to undress her own writing to find where it could be stronger and an eagerness to help others do the same. Si

Mar 30, 2017

Meet the Tellers: Rebecca Sgarlotti and Karen Park

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. Rebecca Sgarlotti Rebecca bravely showed up to my very first Storycatchers workshops I ever held in 2015. I had just stepped onto this journey, not knowing what I doing besides the fact that I wanted this 'thing' to ex

Mar 28, 2017

Meet the Tellers: Cheri Miller and Franklin Chen

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 programing. You can buy your tickets HERE. I received an e-mail from Cheri shortly after putting the requests for tellers out into the universe, pretty sure at that point that the only person who would be interested or show up would be my mom. So imagine my del

Mar 25, 2017

Meet the Tellers: Dan Flannery & Ann Koenig

We've had some amazing tellers take to the Storycatchers stage this past year. Some tellers are 'one and done'. Proving to themselves that they can get up in front of strangers and friends and share a little sliver of themselves. We're so grateful that they have. Others are more regular. Pulling out great stories from their pockets that make you wonder what else they've got rattling around in there. I love when one of these tried and true tellers is announced and start to ma

Mar 24, 2017

Storycatchers Main Stage Event

Get your tickets here: http://storycatchers.brownpapertickets.com/ We are celebrating our one year anniversary of bringing community stories to the stage in the only way we know how - by bringing even MORE stories your way! We have been absolutely thrilled this past year since the start of our 'Live' event offerings to bring 158 stories to the stage to almost 1,000 audience members. And we've asked back some of our past fan-favorite tellers to take to the stage for a Special

Mar 21, 2017

Afterglow: Into the Light

I'd be lying if I said I've been fully able to wrap my head around Saturday night. Thirteen members of our community taking to the stage sharing vulnerable and so, so valuable parts of themselves with us, their community - many, for the first time. I had the distinct pleasure of holding these stories before they were shared, so I went into the night prepared for the way these stories would break us all open in necessary ways. What I had hoped for of course, but wasn't fully

Mar 14, 2017

Out of the Shadows

Mental health awareness and understanding has always been close to my heart. In fact, I dedicated my schooling (undergrad in psychology, mas

Feb 15, 2017

Jill 'Love Notes'

What do cabin fever, a herd of goats and 3 expiring condoms have in common? Why, a love story of course! Listen as Storycatchers Jill brings us off the grid and into the heart of her very own love story. Listen to it HERE: https://soundcloud.com/storycatchers/jill-love-notes #storycatcherscommunity #storycatchersLive #storycatcherssessions

Feb 13, 2017

Storycatchers Afterglow

We had another spectacular night of stories this weekend, packing 130 people into The Draw and filling the walls with laughter, tears and everything in-between. One of my favorite things that comes out of Storycatchers Live nights is *more* stories, poems and art. So I'm going to be gathering them up and collecting them in an 'Afterglow' series. Have anything to share? Please send it in! Here is teller Katie Chicquette Adams' wonderful take on what we created together at our

Feb 10, 2017

Love Notes

A 16-year-old girl writes "To my husband to be" in the yearbook of the boy that would in fact, years later become her husband.

Dec 21, 2016

Rachel 'Awkward Family Gatherings'

As if family gatherings weren't awkward enough, Rachel had to tell her parents that their little boy was a woman.

Dec 18, 2016

Dan Storycatchers Live Holiday Edition: 'Awkward Family Gatherings'

We had a great time last Friday night swapping our awkward family and holiday stories. Teller Dan mixed both the holidays in with a conversation with his wife that he would have done well to listen to a little more attentively to. Listen as Dan relives two mishaps that give him a little humbug with his holiday. #storycatchersLive #storycatcherscommunity #storycatcherssessions

Dec 7, 2016

Lorelei 'Things That Go Bump in the Night'

What happens when those that are supposed to protect you from the evil in the world become the very thing that goes bump in the night?

Nov 16, 2016

Karen 'Things That Go Bump in the Night'

Karen tells a story of being young, a little lost and a long way from home. Listen to the recording of Karen's story from Storycatchers Live: 'Things That Go Bump in the Night' #storycatcherscommunity #storycatchersLive #storycatcherssessions

Oct 29, 2016

Extended cut: Rebecca 'Things that go Bump in the Night'

Listen as Rebecca tells the tale of finding a particularly deviant book at an impressionable age, and how the book changed everything.

Oct 28, 2016

Ira Glass + The Clash

As children a brother and sister made up their own radio station... almost 25 year years later they are back on the radio together...this ti

Oct 25, 2016

'Things That Go Bump In The Night...'

This past Saturday we dusted off {some of} the cobwebs, lit the candelabras and haunted the old Monestary, The Refuge, with our most ghouls and haunting tales to date. We covered everything from being locked in with corpses and bathrooms, dreams and nightmares, fear of the unknown and fear of the very known. Tales of reimagined nursery rhymes, devious books and catholic nuns took us from lighthearted to stark and sobering in the span of two hours. Every Storycatchers Live eve

Oct 21, 2016

Wendy "What I Wish They Had Told Me" Storycatchers Live

How do you become a woman in a time where 'womanhood' was being redefined and reimagined? Listen as Wendy tells of creating her own path amidst the advice of others, and what she wished a woman would have told her along the way. #storycatchersLive #storycatcherssessions

Oct 19, 2016

Rebecca "What I Wish They Had Told Me" Storycatchers Live

Rebecca is one of my favorite returning storytellers of our Storycatchers Live events. Her wit and amazing life have led for some pretty hilarious tales. From tattoos she got every Wednesday as a girl, Craig's List ads she's put out, add sharing about being newly married to a zookeeper to her growing list of killer stories she's shared with us. And just in case you weren't able to join us at our September Storycatchers Live event, 'What I Wish They Had Told Me' you can take a

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