American Dreams

Wednesday June 3

StorySLAM

Venue: Freight & Salvage

2020 Addison Street

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6:00pm Doors Open | 7:00pm Stories Begin

Add to Calendar 06/03/2026 7:00 PM 06/03/2026 9:30 PM The Moth Stories - American Dreams

The Moth StorySLAM is an open-mic storytelling competition in which anyone can share a true, personal, 5-minute story on the night's theme. Sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show! Tonight’s theme is…

AMERICAN DREAMS: Tell us a five-minute story about your lifelong aspiration. Pulling off the impossible or failing in spectacular fashion. Overcoming the odds, shirking expectations, forging your own path, come hell or high water. Give us your big swings, your wildest flights of fancy, your most epic home runs or your dreams dashed and deferred. Does the American Dream still exist? You tell us.

Doors Open: 6:00 PM

Show Starts: 7:00 PM

Tickets for Berkeley's StorySLAMs go on sale 3 weeks prior to the show date at 3 PM ET. 

Seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. Admission is not guaranteed for late arrivals. All sales final. At least 10 tickets may be available at the door for all of our StorySLAMs on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Freight & Salvage Box Office opens for walk-up and phone service at 1:00 PM PT.

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The Moth StorySLAM is an open-mic storytelling competition in which anyone can share a true, personal, 5-minute story on the night's theme. Sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show! Tonight’s theme is…

AMERICAN DREAMS: Tell us a five-minute story about your lifelong aspiration. Pulling off the impossible or failing in spectacular fashion. Overcoming the odds, shirking expectations, forging your own path, come hell or high water. Give us your big swings, your wildest flights of fancy, your most epic home runs or your dreams dashed and deferred. Does the American Dream still exist? You tell us.

Doors Open: 6:00 PM

Show Starts: 7:00 PM

Tickets for Berkeley's StorySLAMs go on sale 3 weeks prior to the show date at 3 PM ET. 

Seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. Admission is not guaranteed for late arrivals. All sales final. At least 10 tickets may be available at the door for all of our StorySLAMs on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Freight & Salvage Box Office opens for walk-up and phone service at 1:00 PM PT.

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