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The Story Salon Big Book of Stories: The Best from L.A.'s Longest Running Storytelling Venue
The Story Salon Big Book of Stories: The Best from L.A.'s Longest Running Storytelling Venue in Bloomington, MN
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Praise for
Story Salon
"Gemstones of narrative. Something new, funny, astonishing."
-Los Angeles Daily News
"Tales tall, tragic, and tantalizing."
-Sunset Magazine
"Stories from all walks and talks of life. Tales of yore and ones that make you scream for more-those that will delight with insight while moving an audience from laughter to tears."
-Studio City Sun
is Los Angeles's longest running storytelling venue. What began as an alternative to stand-up clubs and self-conscious performance spaces has been challenging performers and audiences for more than a decade. Created in a North Hollywood coffee house
now reaches the globe through Podcasting, publishing, and recordings.
The rules of the
haven't changed since it started: Five to seven minutes of original material performed by the author. The result is a unique blend of observation, memoir and comment that makes the
Salon
one of the most eclectic entertainment experiences available. More than a dozen solo theater works have been developed at
Story Salon,
as well as a CD of stories, and several books.
"Live storytelling is a unique art form," says
founder, writer/actor/comedian Beverly Mickins. "Words spoken aloud paint pictures capable of evoking laughter and tears, the whole range of emotion. People have been telling each other stories since the first campfires, talking about the whole mix of things, important and trivial, that go into making life. Storytelling is one of the ways we figure out how to be human."
Collected here for the first time in
Big Book of Stories
are more than forty original pieces first performed by their authors at
Story Salon.
It's an omnibus of memories, rants, affirmations, and shaggy-dog stories that once opened is impossible to shut.
Learn more at www.storysalon.com
Story Salon
"Gemstones of narrative. Something new, funny, astonishing."
-Los Angeles Daily News
"Tales tall, tragic, and tantalizing."
-Sunset Magazine
"Stories from all walks and talks of life. Tales of yore and ones that make you scream for more-those that will delight with insight while moving an audience from laughter to tears."
-Studio City Sun
is Los Angeles's longest running storytelling venue. What began as an alternative to stand-up clubs and self-conscious performance spaces has been challenging performers and audiences for more than a decade. Created in a North Hollywood coffee house
now reaches the globe through Podcasting, publishing, and recordings.
The rules of the
haven't changed since it started: Five to seven minutes of original material performed by the author. The result is a unique blend of observation, memoir and comment that makes the
Salon
one of the most eclectic entertainment experiences available. More than a dozen solo theater works have been developed at
Story Salon,
as well as a CD of stories, and several books.
"Live storytelling is a unique art form," says
founder, writer/actor/comedian Beverly Mickins. "Words spoken aloud paint pictures capable of evoking laughter and tears, the whole range of emotion. People have been telling each other stories since the first campfires, talking about the whole mix of things, important and trivial, that go into making life. Storytelling is one of the ways we figure out how to be human."
Collected here for the first time in
Big Book of Stories
are more than forty original pieces first performed by their authors at
Story Salon.
It's an omnibus of memories, rants, affirmations, and shaggy-dog stories that once opened is impossible to shut.
Learn more at www.storysalon.com
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