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Monthly Storytelling Kickoff Event
Venue: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, May 2, 2025
Time: 7:30 - 8:45 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
Blacksburg Books presents their Monthly Storytelling Kickoff Event on Friday, May 2, 2025.

Love to listen to The Moth Radio Hour? Are you the entertainer among your friends? Have some cool experiences to share? Or, just want to hang out and listen? Join us for our new monthly storytelling event hosted by Author Wendy Welch.

For Storytellers:
We welcome your folktale, original writing, personal story, or family history piece. Please sign up to be a teller by noon Thursday before the Friday event. You do that by emailing us at info@blacksburgbooks.com.

Storytelling rules:
1) No story will ever demean any group or individual using race, ethnicity, economic class, geographic region, political affiliation, religion, gender, etc.
2) Your story will be spoken; while we welcome original stories, if you wrote it, we want you to tell it rather than read it. Poems and songs are perfectly acceptable formats for telling a story.
3) Each month has a theme, which can be interpreted as you choose. The theme for next month will be given the month before at the event and available on the website.
4) Your story will be no more than eight minutes long. At seven minutes, a staff member will hold up an object at the back of the group. She will repeat this at 7:30. At eight minutes, she will hold up the object continuously. Please don't make us tell you what happens if you get to 8:30 minutes.

For Listeners:
1) Please avoid foods that rustle loudly in bags or result in messy crummy bits flying all over the store.
2) The stories you hear at the gathering might be sacred, funny, thought-provoking, or about difficult topics. They may contain words that would be bleeped out on the radio. They won't have trigger warnings. We hold space for each other as we honor the vulnerability and courage it takes to share.
3) Silence your cell phones.
4) Only stand up and move around during a story if it's an emergency.

The gathering will run about an hour and fifteen minutes each month.

Bring your own (BYO) snacks.

Storytelling begins promptly at 7:30 PM so please arrive before then.

Blacksburg Books is located at 401 South Main Street, Suite 106 in Blacksburg, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/FFZwJgM9/image.png.

For more information, visit: http://www.blacksburgbooks.com or https://www.facebook.com/Blacksburg.Books or https://www.facebook.com/events/660253739986638/ or https://www.instagram.com/blacksburg_books/ or call 540-315-9650.