Month: January 2014

Cut to the Chase TODAY!

Join us TODAY at King’s Books in Tacoma from 2-4pm for a fun, free workshop and the chance to develop your own story with a chase. To get ready, check out this interview in the Seattle Star about how we’re building community through story!

“In Hot Pursuit” Storytelling Workshop

In storytelling, you have to be ready to ‘cut to the chase’ if your audience is losing interest. Of course, ‘the chase’ could be about anything from cars to love to existential epiphany.

Join Drunken Telegraph on Sunday, January 26 from 2-4 at King’s Books in Tacoma for a fun workshop of sharing tales and tips for making your story gripping, exciting and full of hot pursuit.

If you’re interested in sharing your own Story with a Chase at our next Drunken Telegraph show on April 11, 2014, we’ll be taking pitches at the workshop. The theme will be… “In Hot Pursuit: Stories with a Chase”.

There’s not football that Sunday, so you’re going to need some kind of action, right?

Story Slam: Epic Battles

At every show, after our Main Stage storytellers, we invite the audience to take part in a Story Slam where they can share their own 5 minute story on the night’s theme. (If the story is really rolling, people can sometimes squeak past the clock.) Our audience votes for the winner with the highly calibrated (not) Human Applause-O-Meter. The winner…

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