HARTFORD
Speak Up Storytelling
speakupstorytelling.com
Contact: Matt Dicks 860-280-6419
speakupstorytelling@gmail.com
Speak Up is a Hartford-based storytelling organization that seeks to promote the art of personal storytelling to a wide audience and foster and support a community of storytellers throughout Connecticut. We produce shows, teach workshops, collaborate with corporations, nonprofits, religious institutions, and universities, produce a podcast, and help people find and tell their best stories.
The Mouth-Off: Storytelling with Chion Wolf at the Mark Twain House,
Hartford.
No live performances right now due to pandemic. Podcasts are available.
www.marktwainhouse.org/mouthoff
Contact: Chion Wolf
MouthOffHartford@gmail.com
The Mouth-Off with Chion Wolf is a hugely successful storytelling show at The Mark Twain House & Museum.
Since 2013, Chion Wolf has gathered the good folks of Connecticut into the Hal Holbrook Auditorium at the Twain House five times a year and recorded their stories on topics ranging from funny to fearful, endearing to enlightened. Listen to the podcast, and tell your story!
HARTFORD AREA
Hither & Yon
Hither and Yon is a story sharing group for lovers of story of all types and for amateur and professional tellers. We are based in Hartford although members come from far and wide, hence the name of the group. We meet monthly, at members' homes rotating between those members who are able to host. We have not been able to meet recently due to the pandemic but look forward to gathering again as soon as it is safe.
For information, contact Liz Gruber lizziegruber@yahoo.com
Tell Me Another
www.tellmeanotherstories.com
Contact: Terry Wolfisch Cole 860-558-2587
tellmeanotherstories@gmail.com
Tell Me Another is a true, live, Moth-style storytelling show produced and hosted by Moth GrandSLAM champion Terry Wolfisch Cole, who also offers frequent public and private storytelling workshops.
Except for open mic events, shows are curated. Pitches are always welcome.
SIMSBURY
The Storyteller's Cottage
www.StorytellersCottage.com
Contact: Lisa Natcharian 860-877-6099
info@StorytellersCottage.com
The Storyteller's Cottage is closed permanently. However, Lisa Natcharian (founder, director) is doing things online.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY Shoreline
Bridget Brown StoryMatters - Some virtual events and online workshops. For further information: www.storymatterscompany.com
MIDDLETOWN
Story City Troupe
www.facebook.com/storycitytroupe/
Contact: Sue Huggans 860-895-8045
suehuggans@gmail.com
An evening of true, personal stories based on The Moth format. Audience members are invited to volunteer to also tell their stories. Membership in the troupe is open. Contact Sue Huggans to apply.
Story City Troupe shows are going online via Zoom as of November 6, 2020 and the first Friday of every month after that, at 7 PM.
The link for tickets
can be found at: https://buttonwood.org
NEW HAVEN
Institute Library Storytelling Group
The Institute Library story sharing group shares stories at any stage of development, from first stabs at this-might-be-a-story to polished pieces. Those who choose get feedback from the group. We also welcome those who wish to simply listen. We are open to all. We welcome stories of all genres, though most of what we hear are personal experience stories.
Each fall we hold a workshop series ending in a public Tellabration!, at which participants tell the stories they have prepared in the workshops. We also help find opportunities for our tellers at other venues, a couple of which our members have created themselves.
We normally meet in person at the Institute Library, 847 Chapel Street in downtown New Haven, on the second Thursday of the month from 7-9 P.M. We meet on Zoom on the third Thursday of every other month (January, March, May, July, September and November). For up to date information contact the group coordinator, Arnie Pritchard. 203-624-2520, apritchard01@snet.net.
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NEW HAVEN
Songs + Stories
YouTube: YouTube.com/sdf06511
Facebook: Facebook.com/songsandstoriesnh
Contact: Saul Fussiner 475-234-5969
saulfussiner@gmail.com
Songs + Stories was a monthly evening of personal storytellers and singer/songwriters on the fourth Saturday of every month. Since COVID, it has become bi-monthly, usually virtual on Facebook and YouTube, and sometimes Live, outdoors, socially distanced, masked and with separate microphones for each performer. It is based in New Haven county.
Storytellers New Haven
Contact: Karen Dubois-Walton & Kevin Walton
StorytellersNewHaven@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/elmcitystory/
We meet once a month in members' homes on a rotating basis although not all members host. We meet either Sunday afternoon or Monday or Tuesday evenings. The host for the meeting selects the date within those parameters. Meeting notification is by email. We also try to keep members apprised of upcoming storytelling events in the area through our email list.
FAIRFIELD
The Tellers
Contact: Madelein Schuster 203-331-8477
madeleinschuster@yahoo.com
A place to come and practice telling and/or listening to stories.
The Tellers meet on the first Monday of the month, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on Zoom.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
Bridgeport Story Exchange
The Bridgeport Story Exchange is a monthly online story sharing gathering for tellers of all experience levels.
What kind of stories? Any kind - personal, historic, fictional or folk. Listeners are welcome as well.
The Bridgeport tory Exchange is held on the first Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. on Zoom.
It is facilitated by Nina Lesiga and sponsored by the Bridgeport Art Trail and City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport, CT
For more information, contact Nina Lesiga n.lesiga@gmail.com or City Lights Gallery
Storytelling Anon
Contact: Janet Davis 203-669-5247
storytellinganon@yahoo.com
Storytelling Anon refers to both an e-mail list and gatherings of storytellers and listeners in the Fairfield County area. Subscribers to the email list receive announcements and reminders about storytelling events in Westchester County, NY and New England.
Storytelling Anon circles take place at various libraries and homes throughout the year. We are a diverse and welcoming community of tellers and listeners!
WATERFORD
The Hempsteaders
Waterford Public Library
Contact: Jennifer Munro 203-421-0625
jennie.munro@comcast.net
The Hempsteaders is a group of writers, storytellers, poets, and other wordsmiths who share, critique, and support each other’s creative endeavors. Through regular emails, we also disseminate information about storytelling events and organizations where our members can share and promote their work.
The Hempsteaders usually meet every third Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon at the Waterford Public Library; however, we now meet on Zoom. If you wish to join us, please email Jennifer at jennie.munro@comcast.net Because of conflicts, we occasionally change the Saturday. Again, please email Jennifer for the latest update.
LEDYARD
Ledyard Library Storytelling
is a story telling event run by the Ledyard Public Library in Gales Ferry. The library runs this program regularly and is always looking for storytellers. Stories can be fact or fiction. Storytellers will have a limited amount of time to tell their stories. The events are held in the Ledyard Gales Ferry Library and are free and open to the public.
Anyone is welcome to tell a story but storytellers must sign up, and as this event happens in a public space, storytellers are asked to submit their story concepts when they sign up. If we are between events, storytellers who sign up will be contacted when a formal call for storytellers goes out for a scheduled event. Sign up by contacting Alyssa Drake at adrake@ledyardlibrary.org.
AT LARGE
Co-Creators and Memory-Keepers
"A virtual gathering place to celebrate CT folks who play with words, sounds, and stories."
Co-Creators and Memory-Keepers
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