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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Mar 17, 2015

Nica Williams: The High School Slam

by Nica Williams

RISK! If I had to think of one word to describe how I felt when signing my name on the paper to join the after school moth program, it would be risk. The thought of telling a story in front my schoolmates who I’ll be seeing the next day was risky. I wasn’t too sure if I was going to be judged or people would even listen. But I took a risk and signed away because this was a chance to unfold a different side of me. First two weeks was very exciting and fun. Our Moth instructors, Catherine and M...

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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Mar 12, 2015

United Nations International School Storytelling Evening

by Gina Voskov

Each December for the past five years, the 7th grade English teachers at our middle school have organized our Storytelling Evening, the big event for the roughly 120 7th grade students in our English and ESL classes. The evening, and indeed our entire unit, is based on the Moth’s tagline: “true stories told live.” It helps that our parent community at our school is engaged and artistic. One of our parents, Josh Blau, is a Moth storyteller, so we are lucky to be able to have him come talk ...

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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Jun 11, 2014

Support The Moth Education Program

by David Mutton

Our second-ever High School GrandSLAM took place on Monday. Nine high-school-student maestros took to the stage and told stories that made us laugh and made us cry. We learned about the beauty of an abandoned building, the trials of young love, and a girl’s dreams of becoming Hasidic. It was the type of magical evening that only The Moth can conjure. We have exciting plans in the year ahead. We want to reach more students, build online teaching tools and provide the schools we serve with the ...

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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Dec 20, 2013

A Night To Remember: The Inaugural High School GrandSLAM

by George Dawes Green

This past Monday, we held our first ever High School Grand Slam, featuring ten high school students from around New York City. George Dawes Green, our founder, reflects on the night. The first name called was Willa. When she approached the mike she seemed a little shy, as most high school girls would be before a microphone and a couple of hundred classmates and parents and teachers and Moth staff and Moth friends and Moth addicts. She was nervous. We were all nervous. It was the first Moth Hi...

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Dispatches from the Moth · Posted On: Sep 16, 2011

MothSHOP & Participant Media Bring Storytelling Workshops to High Schools

by Larry Rosen, MothSHOP Coordinator

This summer, the MothSHOP Community Education Program teamed up with Participant Media, an entertainment company that focuses on documentary and narrative feature films, television, publishing, music, and digital content about the real issues that shape our lives, to bring storytelling workshops to selected high school students in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Inspired by Participant’s release of the movie The Help – based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel about African American maids working...

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