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Lesson #61: FORECASTING: “Bring Me Liberty or Bring Me A Dress” - Sue Schmidt INTRODUCTORY GREETINGS Welcome back to Storytelling School! We’re celebrating this Back to School season with a story all about learning from our elders. Sue Schmidt told this month’s story in Miami in 2018. This month’s Storytelling School story is: “Bring Me Liberty or Bring Me A Dress” by Sue Schmidt ...
Lesson #59: In Her Own Words: The Moth Storytelling workshop experience This month’s Storytelling School post was written by guest author and Education Program Intern, Marlo Brown! Marlo first joined The Moth through our All Country program in the Spring of 2022. After graduating from high school this month, Marlo is headed to New Haven University to study Communication Arts in the fall. Speak Your Truth and Tell it How You Want Doing the Moth program was different than wh...
Lesson #58: PACING - “SHARED THOUGHTS” - Eddy Laughter This month’s Storytelling School post was written by guest author and Teaching Intern, Jenna Ulizio! Jenna first joined The Moth through our All Country program in the Spring of 2022. Jenna is currently studying English at The University of Connecticut. Eddy Laughter takes us on a journey to a punk show in this story, most recently featured on episode 3 of Grown, our new podcast all about that time between those awkward teenage yea...
Lesson #57: CONFLICT “R2 Where Are You?” - Tig Notaro Hello and Happy April! This month’s blog is guest-authored by one of our extraordinary EDU Teaching Interns- Syd Walter! All alumni from our program are invited to apply for one of our paid internships- either in production, program administration or facilitation of our workshops. We met Syd as a part of our All Country program in the Spring of 2022, and she went on to tell her story at the EDU GrandSLAM. Syd is now in her firs...
Lesson #56: STILL FIGURING IT OUT “Losing Games” - Esther Messe Hello and Happy Spring! We are very excited to highlight The Moth’s brand new, very first spinoff podcast! Hosted by alums of the Moth’s Education (EDU) Program and featuring many storytellers who first told their stories on the EDU stage, the podcast is called… Grown - Because we’re all still figuring it out. Grown is about the in-between: the nebulous, the liminal, the just plain wei...